1 Corinthians 16:14

³⁴A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another. ³⁵By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

⁸And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

⁵But the goal of this command is love from a pure heart, a good conscience, and sincere faith,

⁷Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. ⁸He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

¹⁷“I command these things to you, that you may love one another.

²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

⁸Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. ⁹For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,”^[+] You shall not covet,”and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”¹⁰Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

⁹But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another, ¹⁰for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;

¹²May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,