“I give you a new command: Love each other. You must love each other like I loved you.
Colossians 3:14 - Easy To Read Version Do all these things; but most important, love each other. Love is the thing that holds you all together in perfect unity. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And above all these [put on] love and enfold yourselves with the bond of perfectness [which binds everything together completely in ideal harmony]. American Standard Version (1901) and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness. Common English Bible And over all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity. Catholic Public Domain Version And above all these things have charity, which is the bond of perfection. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But above all these things have charity, which is the bond of perfection: |
“I give you a new command: Love each other. You must love each other like I loved you.
I will be in them, and you will be in me. So they will be completely one. Then the world will know that you sent me. And the world will know that you loved these people the same as you loved me.
Don’t owe people anything. But you will always owe love to each other. The person that loves other people has obeyed all the law. {\cf2\super [135]}
In Christ, God chose us before the world was made. God chose us in love to be his holy people {\cf2\super [4]} —people with no wrong in us before him.
You are joined together with peace through the Spirit. {\cf2\super [28]} Do all you can to continue together in this way. Let peace hold you together.
Live a life of love. Love other people the same as Christ loved us. Christ gave himself for us—he was a sweet-smelling offering and sacrifice {\cf2\super [37]} to God.
I want them to be strengthened and joined together with love. I want them to have the full confidence that comes from understanding. I mean I want them to know fully the secret truth that God has made known. That truth is Christ himself.
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.
The goal of this command is for people to have love. To have this love people must have a pure heart, they must do what they know is right, and they must have true faith.
So we should be finished with the beginning lessons about Christ. We should not go back to the things we started with. We began \{our life in Christ\} by turning away from the evil things we did before and by believing in God.
and to your service for God add kindness for your brothers and sisters \{in Christ\}; and to this kindness for your brothers and sisters add love.
So we can see who God’s children are. Also, we can know who the children of the devil are. The people who don’t do what is right are not children of God. And the person who does not love his brothers and sisters \{in Christ\} is not a child of God.
This is what God commands: that we believe in his Son Jesus Christ and that we love each other. This is what he commanded.
And he (God) gave us this command: The person who loves God must also love his brothers and sisters \{in Christ\}.