Colossians 3:14

Appeal For New Behavior

¹³ putting up with one another and forgiving one another. If anyone should have a complaint against anyone, just as also the Lord forgave you, thus also you [do the same]. ¹⁴ And to all these [things] [add] love, which is [the] bond of perfection. ¹⁵ And the peace of Christ must rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.

Bond of Perfection

Put on

Ephesians 4:3

being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace;

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a ringing brass gong or a clashing cymbal.

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.

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.

John 17:23

I in them, and you in me, in order that they may be completed in one, so that the world may know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.

Romans 13:8

Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another, for the one who loves someone else has fulfilled the law.

Ephesians 1:4

just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, [that] we should be holy and blameless before him in love,

Colossians 2:2

so that their hearts may be encouraged, united in love and into all the wealth of the full assurance of insight into the knowledge of the mystery of God, Christ,

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 Timothy 1:5

But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a faith without hypocrisy,

Hebrews 6:1

Therefore, leaving behind the elementary message about Christ, let us move on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and faith in God,

1 Peter 4:8

Above all, keep your love for one another constant, because love covers a large number of sins.

2 Peter 1:7

and with godliness, brotherly love, and with brotherly love, love.

1 John 3:23

And this is his commandment: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as {he commanded us}.

1 John 4:7-12

Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.

1 John 4:21

And this [is] the commandment we have from him: that the one who loves God should love his brother also.