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, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
• Lev 19:18Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.
• John 15:17These things I command you, that ye love one another.
• 1 Pet 1:22Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
• Gal 6:2Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
• 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 Cor 12:26–27And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
• 1 Jn 4:21And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
• Jas 2:8If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
• Col 3:12–13Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
• 1 Jn 4:7–11Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
• 1 Jn 2:7–10Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.
• 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:
• Rom 12:10Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
• John 15:12–13This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
• Gal 5:13–14For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
• 1 Jn 3:14–18We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
• 2 Jn 1:5And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
• Gal 6:10As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
• 1 Jn 3:11For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
• 1 Cor 13:4–7Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
• Heb 13:1Let brotherly love continue.
• Phil 2:1–5If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
• 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;
• Lev 19:34But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
• 1 Pet 3:8–9Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
• 1 Th 4:9–10But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
• Gal 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
• Col 1:4Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints,
• 2 Pet 1:7And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
• Gal 5:6For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
• John 17:21That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
• Ps 119:63I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.
• Ps 16:3But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.

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