Prefer One Another

In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another;

A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

Wherefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as also ye do.

and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law.

above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;

For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.

with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.

Likewise, ye younger, be subject unto the elder. Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.

For this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another:

Be of the same mind one toward another. Set not your mind on high things, but condescend to things that are lowly. Be not wise in your own conceits.

using hospitality one to another without murmuring:

and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works;

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.

Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently:

But concerning love of the brethren ye have no need that one write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another;

Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.

forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do ye:

Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called To-day; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin:

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts unto God.

These things I command you, that ye may love one another.

Wherefore receive ye one another, even as Christ also received you, to the glory of God.

Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

Salute one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ salute you.

Let us not become vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another.

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. — read the full passage →

Finally, be ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded:

Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

lie not one to another; seeing that ye have put off the old man with his doings,

And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he gave us commandment.

and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you;

Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge ye this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock in his brother’s way, or an occasion of falling.

Thou shalt not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people; but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am Jehovah.

If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another’s feet.

And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

Murmur not, brethren, one against another, that ye be not judged: behold, the judge standeth before the doors.

Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, wait one for another.

No man hath beheld God at any time: if we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us:

Salute one another with a kiss of love. Peace be unto you all that are in Christ.

Let love of the brethren continue.

Now the God of patience and of comfort grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus:

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day drawing nigh.

And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote to thee a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

that there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.

So then let us follow after things which make for peace, and things whereby we may edify one another.

Salute one another with a holy kiss.

All the brethren salute you. Salute one another with a holy kiss.

according as each hath received a gift, ministering it among yourselves, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;

See that none render unto any one evil for evil; but always follow after that which is good, one toward another, and toward all.

Salt is good: but if the salt have lost its saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace one with another.

speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;

Wherefore, putting away falsehood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

A friend loveth at all times; And a brother is born for adversity.

make full my joy, that ye be of the same mind, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

We are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, even as it is meet, for that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all toward one another aboundeth;

so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and severally members one of another.

Now I beseech you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

Hatred stirreth up strifes; But love covereth all transgressions.

But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

and to esteem them exceeding highly in love for their work’s sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

Ye shall not steal; neither shall ye deal falsely, nor lie one to another.

And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of these my brethren, even these least, ye did it unto me.

that is, that I with you may be comforted in you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.

My little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

And this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love his brother also.

Let all that ye do be done in love.

and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works; — read the full passage →

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is For brethren to dwell together in unity!

from whom all the body fitly framed and knit together through that which every joint supplieth, according to the working in due measure of each several part, maketh the increase of the body unto the building up of itself in love.

The second is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

in diligence not slothful; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for edifying as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear.

If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, cannot love God whom he hath not seen.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John; — read the full passage →

Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: love therefore is the fulfilment of the law.

Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

Put on therefore, as God’s elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering;

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

Nay, already it is altogether a defect in you, that ye have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather take wrong? why not rather be defrauded?