1 Peter 1:22

New Century Version

Now that your obedience to the truth has purified your souls, you can have true love for your Christian brothers and sisters. So love each other deeply with all your heart.

Cross References

John 15:17

This is my command: Love each other.

John 15:3

You are already clean because of the words I have spoken to you.

John 17:17

Make them ready for your service through your truth; your teaching is truth.

John 17:19

For their sake, I am making myself ready to serve so that they can be ready for their service of the truth.

Acts 15:9

To God, those people are not different from us. When they believed, he made their hearts pure.

Acts 6:7

The word of God was continuing to spread. The group of followers in Jerusalem increased, and a great number of the Jewish priests believed and obeyed.

Romans 1:5

Through Christ, God gave me the special work of an apostle, which was to lead people of all nations to believe and obey. I do this work for him.

Romans 2:8

But other people are selfish. They refuse to follow truth and, instead, follow evil. God will give them his punishment and anger.

Romans 8:13

If you use your lives to do the wrong things your sinful selves want, you will die spiritually. But if you use the Spirit’s help to stop doing the wrong things you do with your body, you will have true life.

2 Corinthians 6:6

We show we are servants of God by our pure lives, our understanding, patience, and kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by true love,

Galatians 3:1

You people in Galatia were told very clearly about the death of Jesus Christ on the cross. But you were foolish; you let someone trick you.

Galatians 5:5

But we have the true hope that comes from being made right with God, and by the Spirit we wait eagerly for this hope.

Galatians 5:7

You were running a good race. Who stopped you from following the true way?

Ephesians 4:3

You are joined together with peace through the Spirit, so make every effort to continue together in this way.

Philippians 1:9

This is my prayer for you: that your love will grow more and more; that you will have knowledge and understanding with your love;

1 Thessalonians 3:12

May the Lord make your love grow more and multiply for each other and for all people so that you will love others as we love you.

2 Thessalonians 1:3

We must always thank God for you, brothers and sisters. This is only right, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love that every one of you has for each other is increasing.

2 Thessalonians 2:13

Brothers and sisters, whom the Lord loves, God chose you from the beginning to be saved. So we must always thank God for you. You are saved by the Spirit that makes you holy and by your faith in the truth.

1 Timothy 1:3

I asked you to stay longer in Ephesus when I went into Macedonia so you could command some people there to stop teaching false things.

1 Timothy 1:5

The purpose of this command is for people to have love, a love that comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a true faith.

1 Timothy 4:12

Do not let anyone treat you as if you are unimportant because you are young. Instead, be an example to the believers with your words, your actions, your love, your faith, and your pure life.

1 Timothy 5:2

older women like mothers, and younger women like sisters. Always treat them in a pure way.

2 Timothy 1:14

Protect the truth that you were given; protect it with the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in us.

Hebrews 11:8

It was by faith Abraham obeyed God’s call to go to another place God promised to give him. He left his own country, not knowing where he was to go.

Hebrews 13:1

Keep on loving each other as brothers and sisters.

Hebrews 5:9

And because his obedience was perfect, he was able to give eternal salvation to all who obey him.

Hebrews 6:10

God is fair; he will not forget the work you did and the love you showed for him by helping his people. And he will remember that you are still helping them.

Hebrews 9:14

How much more is done by the blood of Christ. He offered himself through the eternal Spirit as a perfect sacrifice to God. His blood will make our consciences pure from useless acts so we may serve the living God.

James 1:21

So put out of your life every evil thing and every kind of wrong. Then in gentleness accept God’s teaching that is planted in your hearts, which can save you.

James 4:8

Come near to God, and God will come near to you. You sinners, clean sin out of your lives. You who are trying to follow God and the world at the same time, make your thinking pure.

1 Peter 1:2

God planned long ago to choose you by making you his holy people, which is the Spirit’s work. God wanted you to obey him and to be made clean by the blood of the death of Jesus Christ. Grace and peace be yours more and more.

1 Peter 2:17

Show respect for all people: Love the brothers and sisters of God’s family, respect God, honor the king.

1 Peter 3:1

In the same way, you wives should yield to your husbands. Then, if some husbands do not obey God’s teaching, they will be persuaded to believe without anyone’s saying a word to them. They will be persuaded by the way their wives live.

1 Peter 3:20

who refused to obey God long ago in the time of Noah. God was waiting patiently for them while Noah was building the boat. Only a few people—eight in all—were saved by water.

1 Peter 3:8

Finally, all of you should be in agreement, understanding each other, loving each other as family, being kind and humble.

1 Peter 4:17

It is time for judgment to begin with God’s family. And if that judging begins with us, what will happen to those people who do not obey the Good News of God?

1 Peter 4:8

Most importantly, love each other deeply, because love will cause people to forgive each other for many sins.

2 Peter 1:7

and to your service for God, add kindness for your brothers and sisters in Christ; and to this kindness, add love.

1 John 3:11

This is the teaching you have heard from the beginning: We must love each other.

1 John 3:23

This is what God commands: that we believe in his Son, Jesus Christ, and that we love each other, just as he commanded.

1 John 4:12

No one has ever seen God, but if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is made perfect in us.

1 John 4:20

If people say, “I love God,” but hate their brothers or sisters, they are liars. Those who do not love their brothers and sisters, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have never seen.

1 John 4:7

Dear friends, we should love each other, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has become God’s child and knows God.

Revelation 2:4

“But I have this against you: You have left the love you had in the beginning.