Bible Cross References
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Colossians 2:2
I do this in order that they may be filled with courage and may be drawn together in love, and so have the full wealth of assurance which true understanding brings. In this way they will know God's secret, which is Christ himself.
John 13:34
And now I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
John 15:12
My commandment is this: love one another, just as I love you.
Romans 13:8
Be under obligation to no one---the only obligation you have is to love one another. Whoever does this has obeyed the Law.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
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I may be able to speak the languages of human beings and even of angels, but if I have no love, my speech is no more than a noisy gong or a clanging bell.
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I may have the gift of inspired preaching; I may have all knowledge and understand all secrets; I may have all the faith needed to move mountains---but if I have no love, I am nothing.
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I may give away everything I have, and even give up my body to be burned ---but if I have no love, this does me no good.
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Love is patient and kind; it is not jealous or conceited or proud;
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love is not ill-mannered or selfish or irritable; love does not keep a record of wrongs;
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love is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth.
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Love never gives up; and its faith, hope, and patience never fail.
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Love is eternal. There are inspired messages, but they are temporary; there are gifts of speaking in strange tongues, but they will cease; there is knowledge, but it will pass.
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For our gifts of knowledge and of inspired messages are only partial;
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but when what is perfect comes, then what is partial will disappear.
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When I was a child, my speech, feelings, and thinking were all those of a child; now that I am an adult, I have no more use for childish ways.
12
What we see now is like a dim image in a mirror; then we shall see face-to-face. What I know now is only partial; then it will be complete---as complete as God's knowledge of me.
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Meanwhile these three remain: faith, hope, and love; and the greatest of these is love.
Ephesians 5:2
Your life must be controlled by love, just as Christ loved us and gave his life for us as a sweet-smelling offering and sacrifice that pleases God.
1 Thessalonians 4:9
There is no need to write you about love for each other. You yourselves have been taught by God how you should love one another.
1 Timothy 1:5
The purpose of this order is to arouse the love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a genuine faith.
1 Peter 4:8
Above everything, love one another earnestly, because love covers over many sins.
2 Peter 1:7
to your godliness add Christian affection; and to your Christian affection add love.
1 John 3:23
What he commands is that we believe in his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as Christ commanded us.
1 John 4:21
The command that Christ has given us is this: whoever loves God must love others also.
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Ephesians 1:4
Even before the world was made, God had already chosen us to be his through our union with Christ, so that we would be holy and without fault before him. Because of his love
Ephesians 4:3
Do your best to preserve the unity which the Spirit gives by means of the peace that binds you together.
1 John 4:7-12
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Dear friends, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Whoever loves is a child of God and knows God.
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Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.
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And God showed his love for us by sending his only Son into the world, so that we might have life through him.
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This is what love is: it is not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the means by which our sins are forgiven.
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Dear friends, if this is how God loved us, then we should love one another.
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No one has ever seen God, but if we love one another, God lives in union with us, and his love is made perfect in us.