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.
I give to you a new commandment, that ye love together, as I have loved you, and that ye love together.
In this thing all men shall know, that ye be my disciples, if ye have love together.
This is my commandment, that ye love together, as I have loved you.
No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends.
For this is the telling, that ye heard at the beginning, that ye love each other;
We know, that we be translated from death to life, for we love brethren. He that loveth not, dwelleth in death.
In this thing we have known the charity of God, for he put his life for us, and we owe to put our lives for our brethren.
He that hath the chattel [or the substance] of this world, and seeth that his brother hath need, and closeth his entrails from him, how dwelleth the charity of God in him?
My little sons, love we not in word, neither in tongue, but in work and truth.
Most dear brethren, love we together, for charity is of God; and each that loveth his brother, is born of God, and knoweth God.
In this thing is charity, not as we had loved God, but for he first loved us, and sent his Son forgiveness [or helping] for our sins.
Ye most dear brethren, if God loved us, we owe to love each other.
No man saw ever God; if we love together, God dwelleth in us, and the charity of him is perfect in us.
If any man saith, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar. For he that loveth not his brother, whom he seeth, how may he love God, whom he seeth not?
And we have this commandment of God, that he that loveth God, love also his brother.
Expressões de amor fraternal
Amai-vos com afeição fraternal. O amor cobre multidão de pecados. Perseverai no amor fraterno.
loving together the charity of brotherhood. Each come before to worship other [or Coming before together in honour];
To no man owe ye anything, but that ye love together. For he that loveth his neighbour, hath fulfilled the law.
And in faith all of one will, in prayer be ye each suffering with other, lovers of brotherhood, merciful, mild, meek; [Forsooth in faith all of one understanding, or will, in prayer be ye compassionate, or each suffering with other, lovers of fraternity, merciful, mild, meek;]
before all things have ye charity each to other in yourselves always lasting; for charity covereth the multitude of sins.
But of the charity of brotherhood, we had no need to write to you; ye yourselves have learned of God, that ye love together;
The charity of brotherhood dwell in you,
and do not ye forget hospitality; for by this some men pleased to angels, that were received to harbour.
Think ye on bound men, as ye were together bound, and of travailing men, as yourselves dwelling in the body.
And upon all these things have ye charity, that is the bond of perfectness [or of perfection].
Jesus said to him, Thou shalt love thy Lord God [or the Lord thy God], of all thine heart, and in all thy soul, and in all thy mind.
This is the first and the most commandment.
And the second is like to this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Nevertheless if ye perform the King’s law, by scriptures, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well.