Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

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Bible References

This

1 John 1:5
And this is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light and there [is] no darkness in him at all.
1 John 2:7
Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the message which you have heard.

That we

1 John 4:7
Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.
John 13:34
"A new commandment I give to you: that you love one another--just as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
John 15:12
This is my commandment: that you love one another just as I have loved you.
Galatians 6:2
Carry the burdens of one another, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Ephesians 5:2
and live in love, just as also Christ loved us, and gave himself for us an offering and sacrifice to God for a fragrant smell.
1 Thessalonians 4:9
But concerning brotherly love, I do not have need to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,
1 Peter 1:22
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for sincere brotherly love, love one another fervently from the heart,
1 Peter 3:8
And finally, all [of you be] harmonious, sympathetic, showing mutual affection, compassionate, humble,
1 Peter 4:8
Above all, keep your love for one another constant, because love covers a large number of sins.
2 John 1:5
And now I ask you, lady (not as [if I were] writing a new commandment to you, but [one] that we have had from the beginning), that we should love one another.

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John 13:35
By this everyone will know that you are my disciples--if you have love for one another."
1 John 4:21
And this [is] the commandment we have from him: that the one who loves God should love his brother also.