“You have heard that it was said, ‘Yoʋ shall love yoʋr neighbor and hate yoʋr enemy.’
1 John 4:21 - The Text-Critical English New Testament And this is the commandment we have from him: Whoever loves God must also love his brother. 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. |
“You have heard that it was said, ‘Yoʋ shall love yoʋr neighbor and hate yoʋr enemy.’
The lawyer said, “The one who showed him mercy.” So Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”
“This is my commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.
For the entire law is fulfilled in this one commandment: “Yoʋ shall love yoʋr neighbor as yoʋrself.”
For in Christ Jesus neither does circumcision have any significance, nor uncircumcision, but what matters is faith working through love.
Now concerning brotherly love, you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.
Finally, you must all be of one mind, sympathetic, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, and kind.
Above all, maintain a deep love for one another, because love will cover a multitude of sins.
Brothers, I am not writing you a new commandment, but an old commandment, which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the message you have heard from the beginning.
For this is the message you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers. Whoever does not love his brother abides in death.
My little children, let us not love in word or speech, but in deed and truth.
And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he commanded.
Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.