⁷ Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning.

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

⁵ Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

⁶ This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

¹⁸ You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

¹³ For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don't use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

¹⁴ For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

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

⁹ For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not give false testimony," "You shall not covet,"{TR adds "You shall not give false testimony,"} and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

¹⁰ Love doesn't harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

²⁹ Jesus answered, "The greatest is, 'Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one:

³⁰ you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.' This is the first commandment.

³¹ The second is like this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."

³² The scribe said to him, "Truly, teacher, you have said well that he is one, and there is none other but he,

³³ and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."

³⁴ When Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, "You are not far from the Kingdom of God." No one dared ask him any question after that.

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."

²³ This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

²⁴ Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.

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

⁹ But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

¹⁰ For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he has become guilty of all.

¹¹ For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," said also, "Do not commit murder." Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

¹² So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

¹⁹ They took hold of him, and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by you?

⁴³ "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.'

⁵ and you shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.

³⁴ The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.