Amor fraternal
O amor fraternal é marca dos discípulos de Cristo. Nisto conhecerão que sois meus discípulos: se tiverdes amor uns aos outros.
Amar uns aos outros
Este é o meu mandamento: que vos ameis uns aos outros como Eu vos amei. O amor fraternal é testemunho ao mundo.
Now I am giving you a new commandment: You must love each other. You must love each other in the way that I have loved you. If you keep loving each other, everyone who is aware of that [HYP] will know that you are my disciples."
What I am commanding you is this: Love each other just like I have loved you.
The best way that people can show that they love someone is to die for that person. There is no way that you can love someone in a greater way than that.
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.
We know that we have been changed from being spiritually dead [MET] to being spiritually alive. We know this because we love our fellow believers. Those who do not love their fellow believers are still spiritually [MET] dead.
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. Many of us have the things that are necessary for us to live in this world. If we become aware that any of our fellow believers do not have what they need and if we refuse to ◄provide for them/give to them what they need►, it is clear that we do not love God as we claim/say that we do. I say to all of you whom I love dearly, let us not merely say [MTY] that we love our fellow believers! Let us genuinely/really love them by doing things to help 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.
And God has shown us what it means to love another person: It does not mean that we loved God, but it means that God loved us and sent ◄his Son/the one who was also God► to sacrifice his life in order that our sins might be forgiven {he might forgive our sins}. Dear friends, since God loves us like that, we certainly ought to love each other!
In order to be assured that we are conducting our lives according to God’s character, we must love God and our fellow believers, because God loved us first.
No one has ever seen God. Nevertheless, if we love each other, it is evident that God lives within us and that we love others just like he intends/wants us to do.
So those who say "I love God" but hate a fellow believer are lying. Those who do not love one of their fellow believers, whom they have seen, certainly cannot be loving God, whom they have not seen. Keep in mind that this is what God has commanded us: If we love him, we must also love our fellow believers.
Expressões de amor fraternal
Amai-vos com afeição fraternal. O amor cobre multidão de pecados. Perseverai no amor fraterno.
Love one another as members of the same family do; and, you should be ◄the first ones/eager► to honor each other!
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.
Agree with each other, love each other, be humble, and bless those who do evil things to you instead of retaliating.
To end this part of my letter, I say to all of you, agree with each other in what you think. Be sympathetic toward each other. Love each other as members of the same family should. Act compassionately toward each other. Be humble.
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.
We urge you to increasingly love each other, to strive to work at your own occupations, and not meddle in others’ affairs.
I want to urge you again that you should love your fellow believers [MET]. You do not really need that anyone write to you about that, because God has already taught you how to love each other,
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.
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.
Jesus quoted the Scriptures as he replied, "‘You must love the Lord your God with all [IDM] your ◄inner being/heart►. Show that you love him in all that you desire, in all that you feel, and in all that you think.’ That is the most important commandment in the laws that God gave Moses. The next most important commandment that everyone must surely obey is: ‘You must love the people you come in contact with as much as you love yourself.’
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.