Just as you want others to do for you, do the same for them.
If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.
If you do what is good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do that.
“I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another.
By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
Do not owe anyone anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
The commandments, Do not commit adultery; do not murder; do not steal; do not covet; and any other commandment, are summed up by this commandment: Love your neighbor as yourself.
Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Love, therefore, is the fulfillment of the law.
The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but must be gentle to everyone, able to teach, and patient,
instructing his opponents with gentleness. Perhaps God will grant them repentance leading them to the knowledge of the truth.
For the whole law is fulfilled in one statement: Love your neighbor as yourself.
Finally, all of you be like-minded and sympathetic, love one another, and be compassionate and humble,
Above all, maintain constant love for one another, since love covers a multitude of sins.
For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another,
We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers and sisters. The one who does not love remains in death.
Everyone who hates his brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.
This is how we have come to know love: He laid down his life for us. We should also lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.
If anyone has this world’s goods and sees a fellow believer in need but withholds compassion from him — how does God’s love reside in him?
Little children, let us not love in word or speech, but in action and in truth.
If anyone says, “I love God,” and yet hates his brother or sister, he is a liar. For the person who does not love his brother or sister whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
And we have this command from him: The one who loves God must also love his brother and sister.