Irmãos

34 So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other.35 Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples."

Loving One Another

7 Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God.

20 If someone says, "I love God," but hates a fellow believer,* that person is a liar; for if we don’t love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see?

10 Anyone who loves a fellow believer* is living in the light and does not cause others to stumble.

Faith in the Son of God

1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ* has become a child of God. And everyone who loves the Father loves his children, too.

22 You were cleansed from your sins when you obeyed the truth, so now you must show sincere love to each other as brothers and sisters.* Love each other deeply with all your heart.*

25 And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.

16 Let the message about Christ, in all its richness, fill your lives. Teach and counsel each other with all the wisdom he gives. Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs to God with thankful hearts.

19 singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, and making music to the Lord in your hearts.

17 As iron sharpens iron,

so a friend sharpens a friend.

17 A friend is always loyal,

and a brother is born to help in time of need.

24 There are "friends" who destroy each other,

but a real friend sticks closer than a brother.

10 Never abandon a friend—

either yours or your father’s.

When disaster strikes, you won’t have to ask your brother for assistance.

It’s better to go to a neighbor than to a brother who lives far away.

Correcting Another Believer

15 "If another believer*sins against you,*go privately and point out the offense. If the other person listens and confesses it, you have won that person back.16 But if you are unsuccessful, take one or two others with you and go back again, so that everything you say may be confirmed by two or three witnesses.

Correcting Another Believer

15 "If another believer*sins against you,*go privately and point out the offense. If the other person listens and confesses it, you have won that person back.16 But if you are unsuccessful, take one or two others with you and go back again, so that everything you say may be confirmed by two or three witnesses.17 If the person still refuses to listen, take your case to the church. Then if he or she won’t accept the church’s decision, treat that person as a pagan or a corrupt tax collector.

18 "I tell you the truth, whatever you forbid*on earth will be forbidden in heaven, and whatever you permit*on earth will be permitted in heaven.

19 "I also tell you this: If two of you agree here on earth concerning anything you ask, my Father in heaven will do it for you.20 For where two or three gather together as my followers,*I am there among them."

35 "That’s what my heavenly Father will do to you if you refuse to forgive your brothers and sisters*from your heart."

40 "And the King will say, ‘I tell you the truth, when you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters,*you were doing it to me!’

35 Anyone who does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother."

17 "Do not nurse hatred in your heart for any of your relatives.* Confront people directly so you will not be held guilty for their sin.

Advice about Widows, Elders, and Slaves

1 Never speak harshly to an older man,* but appeal to him respectfully as you would to your own father. Talk to younger men as you would to your own brothers. 2 Treat older women as you would your mother, and treat younger women with all purity as you would your own sisters.

8 But those who won’t care for their relatives, especially those in their own household, have denied the true faith. Such people are worse than unbelievers.