⁸ And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

¹⁰ In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

³⁴ A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.

³⁵ By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."

³⁶ Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus answered, "Where I am going, you can't follow now, but you will follow afterwards."

¹³ Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

⁸ Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

⁹ But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

¹⁴ Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

³⁷ Jesus said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.'

³⁸ This is the first and great commandment.

³⁹ A second likewise is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'

⁴⁰ The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."

⁸ However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.

¹¹ For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

¹⁴ We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn't love his brother remains in death.

¹⁰ In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice{"atoning sacrifice" is from the Greek "hilasmos," an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation-- the sacrifice that turns away God's wrath because of our sin.} for our sins.

¹¹ Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

¹² No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

¹³ By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

²⁰ If a man says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn't love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

²¹ This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

¹² "This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

⁸ Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

¹⁶ By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

¹⁷ But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

¹⁸ My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

¹⁹ And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him,

¹ Let brotherly love continue.

² Don't forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.

³ Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

⁴ Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.