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 5:2Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
• Lev 19:18“‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.
• John 15:17“I command these things to you, that you may love one another.
• 1 Pet 1:22Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:
• Gal 6:2Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
• 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 Cor 12:26–27When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. Or when one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
• 1 Jn 4:21This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.
• Jas 2:8However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.
• Col 3:12–13Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
• 1 Jn 4:7–11Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.
• 1 Jn 2:7–10Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you 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 also do toward you,
• Rom 12:10In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;
• John 15:12–13“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
• Gal 5:13–14For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
• 1 Jn 3:14–18We 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.
• 2 Jn 1:5Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
• Gal 6:10So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.
• 1 Jn 3:11For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;
• 1 Cor 13:4–7Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
• Heb 13:1Let brotherly love continue.
• Phil 2:1–5If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,
• 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;
• Lev 19:34The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.
• 1 Pet 3:8–9Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,
• 1 Th 4:9–10But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,
• Gal 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
• Col 1:4having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have toward all the saints,
• 2 Pet 1:7and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.
• Gal 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
• John 17:21that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.
• Ps 119:63I am a friend of all those who fear you, of those who observe your precepts.
• Ps 16:3As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.

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