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.
Jesus taught that we should love the people whom we would not normally love.
"You have heard your religious teachers say that it is written that Moses wrote, ‘Love the citizens of your country and hate your enemies.’ But now listen to what I say to you: Love your enemies as well as your friends, and pray for those who cause you to suffer.
What I am commanding you is this: Love each other just like I have loved you.
Do not leave any debt unpaid. Your only continual obligation is to love one another, because doing so fulfills all that God’s law requires.
Pay all of your debts when you are supposed to pay them. The only thing that is like a debt that you should never stop paying is to love one another. Whoever loves others has fulfilled all that God requires in his laws.
Each of us should do the things that please the fellow believers with whom we come in contact, and things that will benefit them. We should do those things in order to help them mature spiritually.
Act in a loving way in everything that you do.
As for you, we pray that the Lord Jesus will help you to love each other and other people more and more, just like we continue loving you more and more.
Love one another, be hospitable, and help imprisoned and other mistreated believers.
Continue to love your fellow believers. Do not forget to be hospitable to needy travelers [LIT]. You need to know that by being hospitable, some people have entertained angels without knowing it. Remember to help those who are in prison because they are Christians, as though you were in prison with them. Remember those who are being mistreated {whom people are mistreating} because they are believers. As you do that, consider that you you could suffer as they do.
In the Scriptures God has commanded each of you to love other people like you love yourself. That commandment was also given by Jesus our King [MTY]. If you are loving others, you are doing what is right.
Most important of all, love each other earnestly/wholeheartedly, because if we love others [PRS], we will just ignore many of the sinful things that they do to us.
Do what is good; in particular, love one another.
Because God has chosen you to be his people; and because he loves you, be compassionate to one another. Be kind to one another. Be humble. Be meek (OR, be considerate toward one another), be patient with one another, and tolerate one another’s flaws. Forgive one another, if one of you has a grudge/complaint against another. Just like the Lord Jesus freely/willingly forgave you, you too must freely/willingly forgive one another. And what is more important than all of these is that you love one another, because by doing that you will be perfectly united together.
Continue to be at peace with one another, be constantly thanking God, and continue getting to know thoroughly the message about Christ.
Because God chose you to live peacefully with one another in your local congregations, let that peace which Christ gives control your ◄inner beings/hearts►, and be constantly thanking God.
Because we have been changed from being spiritually dead people to being spiritually alive people, we should love each other genuinely by helping our fellow believers who are in need.
The message that you heard when you first [MTY] believed in Christ is that we should love each other.
Those who hate any of their fellow believers, God considers [MET] them to be murderers. And you know that no murderer has eternal life. The way that we now know how to truly love our fellow believers is by remembering that Christ ◄voluntarily died/gave his life► for us. So, when our fellow believers need something, we should be willing to help them. We should even be willing to die for them.
The way that we now know how to truly love our fellow believers is by remembering that Christ ◄voluntarily died/gave his life► for us. So, when our fellow believers need something, we should be willing to help them. We should even be willing to die for them.
We must love each other. God shows us what real love is.
Dear friends, we must love each other, because God enables us to love each other, and because those who love their fellow believers have become God’s children and ◄know/have a close relationship with► him. God’s nature is to love all people. So those who do not love their fellow believers do not ◄know/have a relationship with► God.