Prefer One Another

in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;

wherefore, comfort ye one another, and build ye up, one the one, as also ye do.

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other--law he hath fulfilled,

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves--

For ye--to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,

Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;

In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;

because this is the message that ye did hear from the beginning, that we may love one another,

of the same mind one toward another, not minding the high things, but with the lowly going along; become not wise in your own conceit;

hospitable to one another, without murmuring;

and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works,

Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love;

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,

And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of <FI>my<Fi> writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another,

Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;

forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any one with any one may have a quarrel, as also the Christ did forgive you--so also ye;

of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,

but exhort ye one another every day, while the To-day is called, that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of the sin,

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;

`These things I command you, that ye love one another;

wherefore receive ye one another, according as also the Christ did receive us, to the glory of God.

so, then, comfort ye one another in these words.

salute one another in a holy kiss; the assemblies of Christ do salute you.

let us not become vain-glorious--one another provoking, one another envying!

in this shall all know that ye are my disciples, if ye may have love one to another.'

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another; — read the full passage →

And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous,

Speak not one against another, brethren; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, doth speak against law, and doth judge law, and if law thou dost judge, thou art not a doer of law but a judge;

and if one another ye do bite and devour, see--that ye may not by one another be consumed.

Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices,

and this is His command, that we may believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and may love one another, even as He did give command to us,

and you the Lord cause to increase and to abound in the love to one another, and to all, even as we also to you,

no longer, therefore, may we judge one another, but this judge ye rather, not to put a stumbling-stone before the brother, or an offence.

`Thou dost not take vengeance, nor watch the sons of thy people; and thou hast had love to thy neighbour as thyself; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.

if then I did wash your feet--the Lord and the Teacher--ye also ought to wash one another's feet.

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

murmur not against one another, brethren, that ye may not be condemned; lo, the Judge before the door hath stood.

so then, my brethren, coming together to eat, for one another wait ye;

God no one hath ever seen; if we may love one another, God in us doth remain, and His love is having been perfected in us;

Salute ye one another in a kiss of love; peace to you all who <FI>are<Fi> in Christ Jesus! Amen.

Let brotherly love remain;

And may the God of the endurance, and of the exhortation, give to you to have the same mind toward one another, according to Christ Jesus;

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as a custom of certain <FI>is<Fi> , but exhorting, and so much the more as ye see the day coming nigh.

and now I beseech thee, Kyria, not as writing to thee a new command, but which we had from the beginning, that we may love one another,

that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same anxiety for one another,

So, then, the things of peace may we pursue, and the things of building up one another;

salute one another in an holy kiss;

salute you do all the brethren; salute ye one another in an holy kiss.

each, according as he received a gift, to one another ministering it, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;

see no one evil for evil may render to any one, but always that which is good pursue ye, both to one another and to all;

The salt <FI>is<Fi> good, but if the salt may become saltless, in what will ye season <FI>it<Fi> ? Have in yourselves salt, and have peace in one another.'

speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,

Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

and now there doth remain faith, hope, love--these three; and the greatest of these <FI>is<Fi> love.

At all times is the friend loving, And a brother for adversity is born.

fulfil ye my joy, that ye may mind the same thing--having the same love--of one soul--minding the one thing,

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

We ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because increase greatly doth your faith, and abound doth the love of each one of you all, to one another;

so we, the many, one body are in Christ, and members each one of one another.

And I call upon you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that the same thing ye may all say, and there may not be divisions among you, and ye may be perfected in the same mind, and in the same judgment,

Hatred awaketh contentions, And over all transgressions love covereth.

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

and to esteem them very abundantly in love, because of their work; be at peace among yourselves;

`Ye do not steal, nor feign, nor lie one against his fellow.

`And the king answering, shall say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did <FI>it<Fi> to one of these my brethren--the least--to me ye did <FI>it<Fi> .

and that is, that I may be comforted together among you, through the faith in one another, both yours and mine.

My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

to all give ye honour; the brotherhood love ye; God fear ye; the king honour ye.

and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light--we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;

and this <FI>is<Fi> the command we have from Him, that he who is loving God, may also love his brother.

let all your things be done in love.

and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works, — read the full passage →

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good;

A Song of the Ascents, by David. Lo, how good and how pleasant The dwelling of brethren--even together!

from whom the whole body, being fitly joined together and united, through the supply of every joint, according to the working in the measure of each single part, the increase of the body doth make for the building up of itself in love.

and the second <FI>is<Fi> like <FI>it<Fi> , this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; --greater than these there is no other command.'

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

we--we have known that we have passed out of the death to the life, because we love the brethren; he who is not loving the brother doth remain in the death.

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage--I have overcome the world.'

Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

if any one may say--`I love God,' and his brother he may hate, a liar he is; for he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God--whom he hath not seen--how is he able to love?

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

the love to the neighbour doth work no ill; the love, therefore, <FI>is<Fi> the fulness of law.

Have we not all one father? Hath not our God prepared us? Wherefore do we deal treacherously, Each against his brother, To pollute the covenant of our fathers?

for we were once--also we--thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious--hating one another;

Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;

Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering,

for all the law in one word is fulfilled--in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;'

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

Already, indeed, then, there is altogether a fault among you, that ye have judgments with one another; wherefore do ye not rather suffer injustice? wherefore be ye not rather defrauded?