1 John 3:18
My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith.
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1 John 3:18
My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith.
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1 John 3:14
We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death.
1 John 3:15
Anyone who has hate for his brother is a taker of life, and you may be certain that no taker of life has eternal life in him.
1 John 3:16
In this we see what love is, because he gave his life for us; and it is right for us to give our lives for the brothers.
1 John 3:17
But if a man has this world's goods, and sees that his brother is in need, and keeps his heart shut against his brother, how is it possible for the love of God to be in him?
Romans 12:9
Let love be without deceit. Be haters of what is evil; keep your minds fixed on what is good.
Romans 12:10
Be kind to one another with a brother's love, putting others before yourselves in honour;
1 John 4:20
If a man says, I have love for God, and has hate for his brother, his words are false: for how is the man who has no love for his brother whom he has seen, able to have love for God whom he has not seen?
1 John 4:21
And this is the word which we have from him, that he who has love for God is to have the same love for his brother.
Luke 6:35
But be loving to those who are against you and do them good, and give them your money, not giving up hope, and your reward will be great and you will be the sons of the Most High: for he is kind to evil men, and to those who have hard hearts.
Luke 10:37
And he said, The one who had mercy on him. And Jesus said, Go and do the same.
Acts 4:32
And all those who were of the faith were one in heart and soul: and not one of them said that any of the things which he had was his property only; but they had all things in common.
1 John 2:9
He who says that he is in the light, and has hate in his heart for his brother, is still in the dark.
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1 John 3:19
In this way we may be certain that we are true, and may give our heart comfort before him,
1 John 3:20
When our heart says that we have done wrong; because God is greater than our heart, and has knowledge of all things.
1 John 3:21
My loved ones, if our heart does not say that we have done wrong, we have no fear before him;
1 John 3:22
And he gives us all our requests, because we keep his laws and do the things which are pleasing in his eyes.
John 14:21
He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.
1 John 3:24
He who keeps his laws is in God and God is in him. And the Spirit which he gave us is our witness that he is in us.
1 John 5:2
In this way, we are certain that we have love for the children of God, when we have love for God and keep his laws.
1 John 5:3
For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.
John 14:15
If you have love for me, you will keep my laws.
John 14:23
Jesus said to him in answer, If anyone has love for me, he will keep my words: and he will be dear to my Father; and we will come to him and make our living-place with him.
John 15:14
You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do.
1 John 4:17
In this way love is made complete in us, so that we may be without fear on the day of judging, because as he is, so are we in this world.
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James 2:14
What use is it, my brothers, for a man to say that he has faith, if he does nothing? will such a faith give him salvation?
James 2:15
If a brother or a sister is without clothing and in need of the day's food,
James 2:16
And one of you says to them, Go in peace, be warm and full of food; but you do not give them the things of which their bodies have need, what profit is there in this?
James 2:17
Even so faith without works is dead.
John 13:17
If these things are clear to you, happy are you if you do them.
Colossians 3:17
And whatever you do, in word or in act, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving praise to God the Father through him.
James 1:22
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas.
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1 Peter 1:22
And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:
1 Peter 4:8
And most of all be warm in your love for one another; because in love there is forgiveness for sins without number:
Ephesians 4:15
But saying true words in love, may come to full growth in him, who is the head, even Christ;
1 Thessalonians 1:3
Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;
1 John 3:12
Not being of the Evil One like Cain, who put his brother to death. And why did he put him to death? Because his works were evil and his brother's works were good.
1 John 3:13
Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world has no love for you.
1 John 5:1
Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child.
2 Corinthians 6:6
In a clean heart, in knowledge, in long waiting, in being kind, in the Holy Spirit, in true love,
Ephesians 6:24
Grace be with all those who have true love for our Lord Jesus Christ.
Judges 16:15
And she said to him, Why do you say you are my lover when your heart is not mine? Three times you have made sport of me, and have not made clear to me the secret of your great strength.
Luke 6:36
Be full of pity, even as your Father is full of pity.
1 Peter 2:17
Have respect for all, loving the brothers, fearing God, honouring the king.
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1 John 4:4
You are of God, my little children, and you have overcome them because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
1 John 5:21
My little children, keep yourselves from false gods.
1 John 2:1
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may be without sin. And if any man is a sinner, we have a friend and helper with the Father, Jesus Christ, the upright one:
1 John 2:12
I am writing to you, my children, because you have forgiveness of sins through his name.
1 John 2:13
I am writing to you, fathers, because you have knowledge of him who was from the first. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the Evil One. I have sent a letter to you, children, because you have knowledge of the Father.
John 13:33
My dear children, I am only to be with you a little longer. Then you will be looking for me: and as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you, Where I am going you may not come.
Galatians 4:19
My children, of whom I am again in birth-pains till Christ is formed in you,
1 Corinthians 4:14
I am not saying these things to put you to shame, but so that, as my dear children, you may see what is right.
1 Corinthians 4:15
For even if you had ten thousand teachers in Christ, you have not more than one father: for in Christ Jesus I have given birth to you through the good news.
3 John 1:4
I have no greater joy than to have news that my children are walking in the true way.
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1 John 3:23
And this is his law, that we have faith in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love for one another, even as he said to us.
Galatians 5:13
Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another.
1 Thessalonians 4:9
But about loving the brothers, there is no need for me to say anything to you in this letter: for you have the teaching of God that love for one another is right and necessary;
1 John 2:10
He who has love for his brother is in the light, and there is no cause of error in him.
John 15:12
This is the law I give you: Have love one for another, even as I have love for you.
Galatians 5:6
Because in Christ Jesus, having circumcision or not having circumcision are equally of no profit; but only faith working through love.
Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,
Hebrews 13:1
Go on loving your brothers in the faith.
1 Peter 3:8
Last of all, see that you are all in agreement; feeling for one another, loving one another like brothers, full of pity, without pride:
2 Peter 1:7
And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself.
Luke 10:31
And by chance a certain priest was going down that way: and when he saw him, he went by on the other side.
Galatians 6:10
So then, as we have the chance, let us do good to all men, and specially to those who are of the family of the faith.
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Ezekiel 33:31
And they come to you as my people come, and are seated before you as my people, hearing your words but doing them not: for deceit is in their mouth and their heart goes after profit for themselves.
Ezekiel 33:32
And truly you are to them like a love song by one who has a very pleasing voice and is an expert player on an instrument: for they give ear to your words but do them not.
Psalms 78:35
In the memory that God was their Rock, and the Most High God their saviour.
Psalms 78:36
But their lips were false to him, and their tongues were untrue to him;
Proverbs 26:23
Smooth lips and an evil heart are like a vessel of earth plated with silver waste.
Isaiah 48:1
Give ear to this, O family of Jacob, you who are named by the name of Israel, and have come out of the body of Judah; who take oaths by the name of the Lord, and make use of the name of the God of Israel, but not truly and not in good faith.
Matthew 7:21
Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will go into the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the pleasure of my Father in heaven.
Mark 7:6
And he said, Well did Isaiah say of you, you false ones: These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
Luke 6:46
Why do you say to me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
Titus 1:16
They say that they have knowledge of God, while by their acts they are turning their backs on him; they are hated by all, hard-hearted, and judged to be without value for any good work.
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2 Corinthians 8:5
And going even farther than our hope, they first gave themselves to the Lord and to us after the purpose of God.
2 Corinthians 8:6
So that we made a request to Titus that, as he had made a start before, so he might make this grace complete in you.
2 Corinthians 8:7
And that as you are full of every good thing, of faith, of the word, of knowledge, of a ready mind, and of love to us, so you may be full of this grace in the same way.
2 Corinthians 8:8
I am not giving you an order, but using the ready mind of others as a test of the quality of your love.
2 Corinthians 8:9
For you see the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, how though he had wealth, he became poor on your account, so that through his need you might have wealth.
Philemon 1:7
For I had great joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been made strong again through you, brother.
Hebrews 6:10
For God is true, and will not put away from him the memory of your work and of your love for his name, in the help which you gave and still give to the saints.
Job 31:19
If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him;
Proverbs 21:13
He whose ears are stopped at the cry of the poor, will himself get no answer to his cry for help.
Acts 9:39
And Peter went with them. And when he had come, they took him into the room: and all the widows were there, weeping and putting before him the coats and clothing which Dorcas had made while she was with them.
Romans 12:13
Giving to the needs of the saints, ready to take people into your houses.
2 Corinthians 9:13
For when, through this work of giving, they see what you are, they give glory to God for the way in which you have given yourselves to the good news of Christ, and for the wealth of your giving to them and to all;
2 Corinthians 9:14
While their hearts go out to you in love and in prayer for you, because of the great grace of God which is in you.
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1 John 2:28
And now, my children, keep your hearts in him; so that at his revelation, we may have no fear or shame before him at his coming.
1 John 2:29
If you have knowledge that he is upright, it is clear to you that everyone who does righteousness is his offspring.
1 John 3:6
Anyone who is in him does no sin; anyone who is a sinner has not seen him and has no knowledge of him.
1 John 3:7
My little children, let no man take you out of the true way: he who does righteousness is upright, even as he is upright;
1 John 3:8
The sinner is a child of the Evil One; for the Evil One has been a sinner from the first. And the Son of God was seen on earth so that he might put an end to the works of the Evil One.
1 John 3:9
Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father.
1 John 3:10
In this way it is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the Evil One; anyone who does not do righteousness or who has no love for his brother, is not a child of God.
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Matthew 25:36
I had no clothing, and you gave it to me: when I was ill, or in prison, you came to me.
Matthew 25:37
Then will the upright make answer to him, saying, Lord, when did we see you in need of food, and give it to you? or in need of drink, and give it to you?
Matthew 25:38
And when did we see you wandering, and take you in? or without clothing, and give it to you?
Matthew 25:39
And when did we see you ill, or in prison, and come to you?
Matthew 25:40
And the King will make answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, Because you did it to the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.
Matthew 25:41
Then will he say to those on the left, Go from me, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire which is ready for the Evil One and his angels:
Matthew 25:42
For I was in need of food, and you gave it not to me; I was in need of drink, and you gave it not to me:
Matthew 25:43
I was wandering, and you took me not in; without clothing, and you gave me no clothing; ill, and in prison, and you came not to me.
Matthew 25:44
Then will they make answer, saying, Lord, when did we see you in need of food or drink, or wandering, or without clothing, or ill, or in prison, and did not take care of you?
Matthew 25:45
Then will he make answer to them, saying, Truly I say to you, Because you did it not to the least of these, you did it not to me.
John 12:8
The poor you have ever with you, but me you have not for ever.
Deuteronomy 15:11
For there will never be a time when there are no poor in the land; and so I give orders to you, Let your hand be open to your countrymen, to those who are poor and in need in your land.
Proverbs 14:31
He who is hard on the poor puts shame on his Maker; but he who has mercy on those who are in need gives him honour.
Proverbs 19:17
He who has pity on the poor gives to the Lord, and the Lord will give him his reward.
Matthew 26:11
For the poor you have ever with you, but me you have not for ever.
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Joshua 24:14
So now, go in fear of the Lord, and be his servants with true hearts: put away the gods worshipped by your fathers across the River and in Egypt, and be servants of the Lord.
2 Corinthians 1:12
For our glory is in this, in the knowledge which we have that our way of life in the world, and most of all in relation to you, has been holy and true in the eyes of God; not in the wisdom of the flesh, but in the grace of God.
1 Corinthians 5:8
Let us then keep the feast, not with old leaven, and not with the leaven of evil thoughts and acts, but with the unleavened bread of true thoughts and right feelings.
Philippians 1:9
And my prayer is that you may be increased more and more in knowledge and experience;
Philippians 1:10
So that you may give your approval to the best things; that you may be true and without wrongdoing till the day of Christ;
2 Corinthians 2:17
For we are not like the great number who make use of the word of God for profit: but our words are true, as from God, being said as before God in Christ.
Titus 2:7
In all things see that you are an example of good works; holy in your teaching, serious in behaviour,
John 1:47
Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and said of him, See, here is a true son of Israel in whom there is nothing false.
Psalms 32:2
Happy is the man in whom the Lord sees no evil, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
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1 John 4:7
My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.
1 John 4:8
He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love.
1 John 4:9
And the love of God was made clear to us when he sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him.
1 John 4:10
And this is love, not that we had love for God, but that he had love for us, and sent his Son to be an offering for our sins.
1 John 4:11
My loved ones, if God had such love for us, it is right for us to have love for one another.
John 13:34
I give you a new law: Have love one for another; even as I have had love for you, so are you to have love one for another.
Romans 12:19
Do not give punishment for wrongs done to you, dear brothers, but give way to the wrath of God; for it is said in the holy Writings, Punishment is mine, I will give reward, says the Lord.
Galatians 6:2
Take on yourselves one another's troubles, and so keep the law of Christ.
Ephesians 5:2
And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.
Colossians 1:23
If you keep yourselves safely based in the faith, not moved from the hope of the good news which came to you, and which was given to every living being under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
1 John 1:6
If we say we are joined to him, and are walking still in the dark, our words are false and our acts are untrue:
1 John 3:11
Because this is the word which was given to you from the first, that we are to have love for one another;
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2 John 1:5
And now, my sister, I make a request to you, not sending you a new law, but the law which we had from the first, that we have love for one another.
2 Thessalonians 2:17
Give you comfort and strength in every good work and word.
1 Thessalonians 3:12
And the Lord give you increase of love in fullest measure to one another and to all men, even as our love to you;
1 Thessalonians 4:10
And, truly, you are lovers of all the brothers in Macedonia; but it is our desire that your love may be increased still more;
1 Peter 1:23
Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.
1 John 2:8
Again, I give you a new law, which is true in him and in you; for the night is near its end and the true light is even now shining out.
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2 John 1:1
I, a ruler in the church, send word to the noble sister who is of God's selection, and to her children, for whom I have true love; and not only I, but all who have knowledge of what is true;
3 John 1:1
I, a ruler in the church, send word to the well loved Gaius, for whom I have true love.
3 John 1:7
For they went out for love of the Name, taking nothing from the Gentiles.
3 John 1:8
So it is right for us to take in such men as guests, so that we may take our part in the work of the true faith.
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John 21:15
Then when they had taken food, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, is your love for me greater than the love of these others? He said to him, Yes, Lord; you are certain of my love for you. He said to him, Then give my lambs food.
John 21:16
Again, a second time, he said to him, Simon, son of John, have you any love for me? Yes, Lord, he said, you are certain of my love for you. Then take care of my sheep, said Jesus.
John 21:17
He said to him a third time, Simon, son of John, am I dear to you? Now Peter was troubled in his heart because he put the question a third time, Am I dear to you? And he said to him, Lord, you have knowledge of all things; you see that you are dear to me. Jesus said to him, Then give my sheep food.
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1 Corinthians 13:4
Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride;
1 Corinthians 13:5
Love's ways are ever fair, it takes no thought for itself; it is not quickly made angry, it takes no account of evil;
1 Corinthians 13:6
It takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, but has joy in what is true;
1 Corinthians 13:7
Love has the power of undergoing all things, having faith in all things, hoping all things.
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