Bible Cross References
the end
Romans 10:4
For Christ has brought the Law to an end, so that everyone who believes is put right with God.
Romans 13:8-10
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Be under obligation to no one---the only obligation you have is to love one another. Whoever does this has obeyed the Law.
9
The commandments, "Do not commit adultery; do not commit murder; do not steal; do not desire what belongs to someone else"---all these, and any others besides, are summed up in the one command, "Love your neighbor as you love yourself."
10
If you love others, you will never do them wrong; to love, then, is to obey the whole Law.
Galatians 5:13
As for you, my friends, you were called to be free. But do not let this freedom become an excuse for letting your physical desires control you. Instead, let love make you serve one another.
Galatians 5:14
For the whole Law is summed up in one commandment: "Love your neighbor as you love yourself."
Galatians 5:22
But the Spirit produces love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
1 John 4:7-14
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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.
9
And God showed his love for us by sending his only Son into the world, so that we might have life through him.
10
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.
11
Dear friends, if this is how God loved us, then we should love one another.
12
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.
13
We are sure that we live in union with God and that he lives in union with us, because he has given us his Spirit.
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And we have seen and tell others that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
charity
Mark 12:28-34
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A teacher of the Law was there who heard the discussion. He saw that Jesus had given the Sadducees a good answer, so he came to him with a question: "Which commandment is the most important of all?"
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Jesus replied, "The most important one is this: 'Listen, Israel! The Lord our God is the only Lord.
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Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.'
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The second most important commandment is this: 'Love your neighbor as you love yourself.' There is no other commandment more important than these two."
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The teacher of the Law said to Jesus, "Well done, Teacher! It is true, as you say, that only the Lord is God and that there is no other god but he.
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And you must love God with all your heart and with all your mind and with all your strength; and you must love your neighbor as you love yourself. It is more important to obey these two commandments than to offer on the altar animals and other sacrifices to God."
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Jesus noticed how wise his answer was, and so he told him, "You are not far from the Kingdom of God." After this nobody dared to ask Jesus any more questions.
Romans 14:15
If you hurt others because of something you eat, then you are no longer acting from love. Do not let the food that you eat ruin the person for whom Christ died!
1 Corinthians 8:1-3
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Now, concerning what you wrote about food offered to idols. It is true, of course, that "all of us have knowledge," as they say. Such knowledge, however, puffs a person up with pride; but love builds up.
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Those who think they know something really don't know as they ought to know.
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But the person who loves God is known by him.
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.
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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.
13
Meanwhile these three remain: faith, hope, and love; and the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 14:1
It is love, then, that you should strive for. Set your hearts on spiritual gifts, especially the gift of proclaiming God's message.
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.
a pure
Psalm 24:4
Those who are pure in act and in thought, who do not worship idols or make false promises.
Psalm 51:10
Create a pure heart in me, O God, and put a new and loyal spirit in me.
Jeremiah 4:14
Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart, so that you may be saved. How long will you go on thinking sinful thoughts?
Matthew 5:8
"Happy are the pure in heart; they will see God!
Matthew 12:35
A good person brings good things out of a treasure of good things; a bad person brings bad things out of a treasure of bad things.
Acts 15:9
He made no difference between us and them; he forgave their sins because they believed.
2 Timothy 2:22
Avoid the passions of youth, and strive for righteousness, faith, love, and peace, together with those who with a pure heart call out to the Lord for help.
James 4:8
Come near to God, and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners! Purify your hearts, you hypocrites!
1 Peter 1:22
Now that by your obedience to the truth you have purified yourselves and have come to have a sincere love for other believers, love one another earnestly with all your heart.
1 John 3:3
Everyone who has this hope in Christ keeps himself pure, just as Christ is pure.
a good
1 Timothy 1:19
and keep your faith and a clear conscience. Some people have not listened to their conscience and have made a ruin of their faith.
1 Timothy 3:9
they should hold to the revealed truth of the faith with a clear conscience.
Acts 23:1
Paul looked straight at the Council and said, "My fellow Israelites! My conscience is perfectly clear about the way in which I have lived before God to this very day."
Acts 24:16
And so I do my best always to have a clear conscience before God and people.
Romans 9:1
I am speaking the truth; I belong to Christ and I do not lie. My conscience, ruled by the Holy Spirit, also assures me that I am not lying
2 Corinthians 1:12
We are proud that our conscience assures us that our lives in this world, and especially our relations with you, have been ruled by God-given frankness and sincerity, by the power of God's grace and not by human wisdom.
2 Timothy 1:3
I give thanks to God, whom I serve with a clear conscience, as my ancestors did. I thank him as I remember you always in my prayers night and day.
Titus 1:15
Everything is pure to those who are themselves pure; but nothing is pure to those who are defiled and unbelieving, for their minds and consciences have been defiled.
Hebrews 9:14
Since this is true, how much more is accomplished by the blood of Christ! Through the eternal Spirit he offered himself as a perfect sacrifice to God. His blood will purify our consciences from useless rituals, so that we may serve the living God.
Hebrews 10:22
So let us come near to God with a sincere heart and a sure faith, with hearts that have been purified from a guilty conscience and with bodies washed with clean water.
Hebrews 13:18
Keep on praying for us. We are sure we have a clear conscience, because we want to do the right thing at all times.
1 Peter 3:16
but do it with gentleness and respect. Keep your conscience clear, so that when you are insulted, those who speak evil of your good conduct as followers of Christ will become ashamed of what they say.
1 Peter 3:21
which was a symbol pointing to baptism, which now saves you. It is not the washing off of bodily dirt, but the promise made to God from a good conscience. It saves you through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
faith
Galatians 5:6
For when we are in union with Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor the lack of it makes any difference at all; what matters is faith that works through love.
2 Timothy 1:5
I remember the sincere faith you have, the kind of faith that your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice also had. I am sure that you have it also.
Hebrews 11:5
It was faith that kept Enoch from dying. Instead, he was taken up to God, and nobody could find him, because God had taken him up. The scripture says that before Enoch was taken up, he had pleased God.
Hebrews 11:6
No one can please God without faith, for whoever comes to God must have faith that God exists and rewards those who seek him.
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.