Treat others in the same way that you would want them to treat you.
“If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.
And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do the same.
“I give you a new commandment – to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
Everyone will know by this that you are my disciples – if you have love for one another.”
Owe no one anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
For the commandments, “Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not covet,” (and if there is any other commandment) are summed up in this, “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
And the Lord’s slave must not engage in heated disputes but be kind toward all, an apt teacher, patient,
correcting opponents with gentleness. Perhaps God will grant them repentance and then knowledge of the truth
For the whole law can be summed up in a single commandment, namely, “You must love your neighbor as yourself.”
Finally, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, affectionate, compassionate, and humble.
Above all keep your love for one another fervent, because love covers a multitude of sins.
For this is the gospel message that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another,
We know that we have crossed over from death to life because we love our fellow Christians. The one who does not love remains in death.
Everyone who hates his fellow Christian is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.
We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.
But whoever has the world’s possessions and sees his fellow Christian in need and shuts off his compassion against him, how can the love of God reside in such a person?
Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth.
If anyone says “I love God” and yet hates his fellow Christian, he is a liar, because the one who does not love his fellow Christian whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
And the commandment we have from him is this: that the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian too.