Amor ao próximo
O amor ao próximo não é opcional — é mandamento. Amarás o teu próximo como a ti mesmo. A lei inteira se cumpre nesta palavra. O amor ao próximo é prova do amor a Deus.
"You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
"This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.
Let all that you do be done in love.
and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you,
Let brotherly love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.
If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well.
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.