Forget about the wrong things people do {to you}. Don’t try to get even. Love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord!
1 John 4:21 - Easy To Read Version And he (God) gave us this command: The person who loves God must also love his brothers and sisters \{in Christ\}. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And this command (charge, order, injunction) we have from Him: that he who loves God shall love his brother [believer] also. American Standard Version (1901) And this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love his brother also. Common English Bible This commandment we have from him: Those who claim to love God ought to love their brother and sister also. Catholic Public Domain Version And this is the commandment that we have from God, that he who loves God must also love his brother. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And this commandment we have from God, that he, who loveth God, love also his brother. |
Forget about the wrong things people do {to you}. Don’t try to get even. Love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord!
“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor {\cf2\super [71]} and hate your enemy.’
The whole law {\cf2\super [69]} is made complete in this one command: “Love other people the same as you love yourself.” {\cf2\super [70]}
When a person is in Christ Jesus, it is not important if he is circumcised or not. The important thing is faith—the kind of faith that works through love.
We don’t need to write to you about having love for your brothers and sisters in Christ. God has already taught you to love each other.
So all of you should live together in peace. Try to understand each other. Love each other like brothers. Be kind and humble.
My dear friends, I am not writing a new command to you. It is the same command you have had since the beginning. This command is the teaching you have already heard.
This is the teaching you have heard from the beginning: We must love each other.
We know that we have left death (sin) and have come into life. We know this because we love our brothers and sisters \{in Christ\}. The person who does not love is still in death.
My children, our love should not be only words and talk. No! Our love must be true love. We should show our love by the things we do.
This is what God commands: that we believe in his Son Jesus Christ and that we love each other. This is what he commanded.
That is how much God loved us, dear friends! So we also must love each other.