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.

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• 1 Tim 1:5but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith;
• Heb 13:1Let brotherly love continue.
• Rom 12:9–10Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
• 1 Pet 3:8Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,
• 1 Jn 4:12No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
• 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 Jn 4:7Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and 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 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;
• 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,
• 1 Jn 3:23This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.
• 1 Pet 2:17Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
• 1 Jn 4:20If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
• Acts 15:9He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
• 1 Jn 3:11For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;
• Phil 1:9This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;
• 2 Pet 1:7and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.
• Gal 5:5For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.
• Eph 4:3being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
• 1 Pet 4:8And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
• Heb 11:8By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.
• Rev 2:4But I have this against you, that you left your first love.
• Jas 2:15–16And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,
• John 15:17“I command these things to you, that you may love one another.
• Heb 6:10For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
• 1 Pet 4:17For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?
• 1 Jn 3:14–19We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.
• Heb 9:14how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
• Rom 6:16–17Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
• 1 Tim 4:12Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.
• 1 Tim 5:2the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.
• 2 Cor 6:6in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,
• 1 Pet 3:1In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;
• Heb 5:9Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,
• 2 Tim 1:14That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.
• 1 Th 4:8–9Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.
• 2 Th 2:13But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth;
• Gal 3:1Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?
• 1 Tim 1:3As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,
• Gal 5:7You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

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