18 “‘You must not take vengeance+ nor hold a grudge against the sons of your people, and you must love your fellow man as yourself.+ I am Jehovah.

12 This is my commandment, that you love one another just as I have loved you.+

2 Go on carrying the burdens of one another,+ and in this way you will fulfill the law of the Christ.+

2 and go on walking in love,+ just as the Christ also loved us*+ and gave himself for us* as an offering and a sacrifice, a sweet fragrance to God.+

8 So having tender affection for you, we were determined* to impart to you, not only the good news of God but also our very selves,*+ because you became so beloved to us.+

9 However, concerning brotherly love,+ you do not need us to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.+

8 If, now, you carry out the royal* law according to the scripture, “You must love your neighbor as yourself,”+ you are doing quite well.

22 Now that you have purified yourselves* by your obedience to the truth with unhypocritical brotherly affection+ as the result, love one another intensely from the heart.+

14 We know that we have passed over from death to life,+ because we love the brothers.+ The one who does not love remains in death.+

16 By this we have come to know love, because that one surrendered his life* for us,+ and we are under obligation to surrender our lives* for our brothers.+