John 13:34

Jesus gives a new commandment: to love one another as He has loved them. It sets His own sacrificial love as the standard for the church.

Cross-references · 34

• Eph 5:2and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.
• Lev 19:18Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
• John 15:17This is My command to you: Love one another.
• 1 Pet 1:22Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.
• Gal 6:2Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
• 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 Cor 12:26–27If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
• 1 Jn 4:21And we have this commandment from Him: Whoever loves God must love his brother as well.
• Jas 2:8If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
• Col 3:12–13Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with hearts of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.
• 1 Jn 4:7–11Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
• 1 Jn 2:7–10Beloved, I am not writing to you a new commandment, but an old one, which you have had from the beginning. This commandment is the message you have heard.
• 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,
• Rom 12:10Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.
• John 15:12–13This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
• Gal 5:13–14For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.
• 1 Jn 3:14–18We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.
• 2 Jn 1:5And now I urge you, dear lady—not as a new commandment to you, but one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another.
• Gal 6:10Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to the family of faith.
• 1 Jn 3:11This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
• 1 Cor 13:4–7Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
• Heb 13:1Continue in brotherly love.
• Phil 2:1–5Therefore if you have any encouragement in Christ, if any comfort from His love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any affection and compassion,
• 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.
• Lev 19:34You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born and love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
• 1 Pet 3:8–9Finally, all of you, be like-minded and sympathetic, love as brothers, be tenderhearted and humble.
• 1 Th 4:9–10Now about brotherly love, you do not need anyone to write to you, because you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.
• Gal 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
• Col 1:4because we have heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and your love for all the saints—
• 2 Pet 1:7and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.
• Gal 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.
• John 17:21that all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You. May they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.
• Ps 119:63I am a friend to all who fear You, and to those who keep Your precepts.
• Ps 16:3As for the saints in the land, they are the excellence in whom all my delight resides.

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