1 Peter 1:22

Having been purified by obedience to the truth, believers are to love one another earnestly from the heart. Genuine, fervent love for fellow Christians flows from a cleansed life.

Cross-references · 40

• 1 Tim 1:5The goal of our instruction is the love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith.
• Heb 13:1Continue in brotherly love.
• Rom 12:9–10Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good.
• 1 Pet 3:8Finally, all of you, be like-minded and sympathetic, love as brothers, be tenderhearted and humble.
• 1 Jn 4:12No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.
• John 13:34–35A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.
• 1 Jn 4:7Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
• Jas 4:8Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
• 2 Th 1:3We are obligated to thank God for you all the time, brothers, as is fitting, because your faith is growing more and more, and your love for one another is increasing.
• 1 Th 3:12And may the Lord cause you to increase and overflow with love for one another and for everyone else, just as our love for you overflows,
• 1 Jn 3:23And this is His commandment: that we should believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and we should love one another just as He commanded us.
• 1 Pet 2:17Treat everyone with high regard: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.
• 1 Jn 4:20If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
• Acts 15:9He made no distinction between us and them, for He cleansed their hearts by faith.
• 1 Jn 3:11This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
• Phil 1:9And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight,
• 2 Pet 1:7and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.
• Gal 5:5But by faith we eagerly await through the Spirit the hope of righteousness.
• Eph 4:3and with diligence to preserve the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.
• 1 Pet 4:8Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
• Heb 11:8By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.
• Rev 2:4But I have this against you: You have abandoned your first love.
• Jas 2:15–16Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food.
• John 15:17This is My command to you: Love one another.
• Heb 6:10For God is not unjust. He will not forget your work and the love you have shown for His name as you have ministered to the saints and continue to do so.
• 1 Pet 4:17For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who disobey the gospel of God?
• 1 Jn 3:14–19We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.
• Heb 9:14how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!
• Rom 6:16–17Do you not know that when you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, whether you are slaves to sin leading to death, or to obedience leading to righteousness?
• 1 Tim 4:12Let no one despise your youth, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
• 1 Tim 5:2older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.
• 2 Cor 6:6in purity, knowledge, patience, and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love;
• 1 Pet 3:1Wives, in the same way, submit yourselves to your husbands, so that even if they refuse to believe the word, they will be won over without words by the behavior of their wives
• Heb 5:9And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him
• 2 Tim 1:14Guard the treasure entrusted to you, with the help of the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.
• 1 Th 4:8–9Anyone, then, who rejects this command does not reject man but God, the very One who gives you His Holy Spirit.
• 2 Th 2:13But we should always thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning to be saved by the sanctification of the Spirit and by faith in the truth.
• Gal 3:1O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.
• 1 Tim 1:3As I urged you on my departure to Macedonia, you should stay on at Ephesus to instruct certain men not to teach false doctrines
• Gal 5:7You were running so well. Who has obstructed you from obeying the truth?

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