34 I am giving you a new command: Love one another. Love one another in the same way I have loved you. 35 If you love one another you will prove to everyone that you are my disciples."

7 Dear friends, let’s go on loving one another, for love comes from God. All those who love are born of God and know God.

20 Anyone who says, "I love God," but hates a Christian brother or sister, is a liar. Anyone who doesn’t love a brother whom they can see, can’t love God whom they can’t see.

10 Those who love their fellow Christians live in the light, and don’t cause others to sin.*

1 Whoever trusts that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and whoever loves the father also loves his child.

22 Now that you’ve dedicated yourselves by following the truth, love each other sincerely like a true family.*

25 We should not give up meeting together, as some have done. In fact we should be encouraging one another, especially as you see the End* approaching.

16 Let Christ’s message fully live in you. In every wise way teach and instruct one another through psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing praises to God in gratitude and sincerity.

19 Share together with one another, using psalms and hymns and sacred songs, singing and making music to the Lord to express what you feel.

17 An iron blade is sharpened with an iron tool, and one person’s mind is sharpened by another’s.

17 A true friend is always there to love you, and family* provides help when troubles come.

24 Some friends give up* on you, but there’s a friend who stays closer to you than a brother.

10 Don’t give up on your friends or your family’s friends. Don’t go to a relative’s house when you’ve got trouble. A friend nearby is more useful than a relative far away.

15 If a brother* sins against you,* go and point out the wrong to him, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you’ve won your brother over. 16 But if he doesn’t listen, then take one or two more people with you, so that by two or three witnesses the truth can be confirmed.*

15 If a brother* sins against you,* go and point out the wrong to him, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you’ve won your brother over. 16 But if he doesn’t listen, then take one or two more people with you, so that by two or three witnesses the truth can be confirmed.* 17 If, however, he refuses to listen to them, then tell the church. If he refuses to listen to the church as well, then treat him as a foreigner* and a tax collector. 18 I tell you the truth, whatever you ban on earth will have been banned in heaven, and whatever you allow on earth will have been allowed in heaven.

19 I also tell you that if two of you agree here on earth about something you’re praying for, then my heavenly Father will do it for you. 20 For where two or three gather together in my name, I’m there with them."

35 This is what my heavenly Father will do to every one of you unless you sincerely* forgive your brothers."

40 The king will tell them, ‘I tell you the truth: whatever you did for one of these least important brothers of mine you did for me.’

35 Whoever does what God wants, they are my brother, and sister, and mother."

17 Don’t hold onto hateful feelings towards others. Talk honestly with your neighbors, so that you don’t sin because of them.

1 Don’t rebuke a man who is older than you. Instead, encourage him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers, 2 older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with the highest standards of decency.

8 But those who don’t look after their relatives, especially their own family, have denied their beliefs, and are worse than those who don’t believe.