My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
“I have loved you,” says the Lord. “But you ask, ‘How have you loved us?’ “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob,
“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
This is my command: Love each other.
Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.
and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you.
Now about your love for one another we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other.
We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing.
Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart.
Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble.
Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.
And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.
And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning. I ask that we love one another.