⁴⁰ On these two rules all the law and the prophets are based.

¹² All those things, then, which you would have men do to you, even so do you to them: because this is the law and the prophets.

⁹ And this, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not put to death, Do not take what is another's, Do not have desire for what is another's, and if there is any other order, it is covered by this word, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

⁷ My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.

⁸ He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love.

⁹ And the love of God was made clear to us when he sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him.

¹⁰ And this is love, not that we had love for God, but that he had love for us, and sent his Son to be an offering for our sins.

¹¹ My loved ones, if God had such love for us, it is right for us to have love for one another.

¹⁹ We have the power of loving, because he first had love for us.

²⁰ If a man says, I have love for God, and has hate for his brother, his words are false: for how is the man who has no love for his brother whom he has seen, able to have love for God whom he has not seen?

²¹ And this is the word which we have from him, that he who has love for God is to have the same love for his brother.

¹⁷ For the law was given through Moses; grace and the true way of life are ours through Jesus Christ.

¹⁹ Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God:

²⁰ Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

²¹ But now without the law there is a revelation of the righteousness of God, to which witness is given by the law and the prophets;

⁵ But the effect of the order is love coming from a clean heart, and a knowledge of what is right, and true faith:

⁸ But if you keep the greatest law of all, as it is given in the holy Writings, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself, you do well: