To godliness, add kindness. And to kindness, add love.
Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters.
Love one another deeply. Honor one another more than yourselves.
May the Lord make your love grow and overflow for one another and for everyone else, just as ours does for you.
So whenever we get the chance to do something good for anyone, let’s do it, and especially for people within the family of believers.
Here’s the command God has given us: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ gave his life for us. So we should give our own lives for our brothers and sisters.
We know that we’ve passed from death into life, because we love one another. Anyone who doesn’t love remains in death.
Show proper respect to everyone, love the family of believers, have respect for God, honor the emperor.
You’ve made yourselves pure by obeying the truth. Now, you have an honest and true love for each other. So love one another deeply from your hearts.
Over all these good things put on love, which holds them all together perfectly as if they were one.
Finally, I want all of you to agree with one another. Be understanding, love one another, be kind and tender, be humble.
Make sure that no one pays back one wrong act with another. Instead, always try to do what’s good for each other and for everyone else.
