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1 Corinthians 16:14

Let all that you do be done with love.
1 Corinthians 16:14 · New King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB Let all that you do be done in love.
  • KJV Let all your things be done with charity.
  • BSB Do everything in love.
  • NASB All that you do must be done in love.
  • NLT And do everything with love.

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Quick answer

Every action of the believer is to be governed by love. It applies the great 'love chapter' to the whole of daily conduct.

Overview

This brief verse draws on the extended teaching of 1 Corinthians 13, where Paul showed that gifts and deeds without love are worthless. The courage and strength just commanded (verse 13) must never harden into harshness; love is the controlling motive for all Christian behavior. It reflects the gospel itself, since Christ's self-giving love is both the source and the pattern of the love believers are called to show.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 19

  • John 13:34–35A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.
  • 1 Pet 4:8And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
  • 1 Tim 1:5but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith;
  • 1 Jn 4:7–8Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.
  • 1 Cor 12:31But earnestly desire the best gifts. Moreover, I show a most excellent way to you.
  • John 15:17“I command these things to you, that you may love one another.
  • Gal 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
  • Rom 13:8–10Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
  • 1 Th 3:12and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,
  • Gal 5:13–14For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
  • 2 Pet 1:7and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.
  • 1 Th 4:9–10But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,
  • Phil 2:1–3If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,
  • Rom 14:15Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.
  • 1 Th 3:6But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you;
  • 1 Cor 8:1Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
  • Eph 4:1–3I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,
  • 2 Th 1:3We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you towards one another abounds;
  • Heb 13:4Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

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Christ crucified is the wisdom and power of God; he is our Passover sacrificed for us, the firstfruits of resurrection, the foundation on which everything is built.

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