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 1:5Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
• Heb 13:1Let brotherly love continue.
• Rom 12:9–10Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
• 1 Pet 3:8Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
• 1 Jn 4:12No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
• John 13:34–35A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
• 1 Jn 4:7Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
• Jas 4:8Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
• 2 Th 1:3We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
• 1 Th 3:12And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
• 1 Jn 3:23And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
• 1 Pet 2:17Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
• 1 Jn 4:20If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
• Acts 15:9And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
• 1 Jn 3:11For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
• Phil 1:9And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
• 2 Pet 1:7And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
• Gal 5:5For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
• Eph 4:3Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
• 1 Pet 4:8And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
• Heb 11:8By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
• Rev 2:4Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
• Jas 2:15–16If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
• John 15:17These things I command you, that ye love one another.
• Heb 6:10For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
• 1 Pet 4:17For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
• 1 Jn 3:14–19We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
• Heb 9:14How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
• Rom 6:16–17Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
• 1 Tim 4:12Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
• 1 Tim 5:2The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
• 2 Cor 6:6By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
• 1 Pet 3:1Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
• Heb 5:9And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
• 2 Tim 1:14That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.
• 1 Th 4:8–9He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
• 2 Th 2:13But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
• Gal 3:1O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
• 1 Tim 1:3As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine,
• Gal 5:7Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?

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