Colossians 3:14

Appeal For New Behavior

¹³ forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any one with any one may have a quarrel, as also the Christ did forgive you -- so also ye; ¹⁴ and above all these things, have love, which is a bond of the perfection, ¹⁵ and let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also ye were called in one body, and become thankful.

Bond of Perfection

Put on

Ephesians 4:3

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

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;

Ephesians 5:2

and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,

John 13:34

'A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;

John 15:12

'This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

John 17:23

I in them, and Thou in me, that they may be perfected into one, and that the world may know that Thou didst send me, and didst love them as Thou didst love me.

Romans 13:8

To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other -- law he hath fulfilled,

Ephesians 1:4

according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,

Colossians 2:2

that their hearts may be comforted, being united in love, and to all riches of the full assurance of the understanding, to the full knowledge of the secret of the God and Father, and of the Christ,

1 Thessalonians 4:9

And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of my writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another,

1 Timothy 1:5

And the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned,

Hebrews 6:1

Wherefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, unto the perfection we may advance, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God,

1 Peter 4:8

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

2 Peter 1:7

and in the piety the brotherly kindness, and in the brotherly kindness the love;

1 John 3:23

and this is His command, that we may believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and may love one another, even as He did give command to us,

1 John 4:7-12

Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;

1 John 4:21

and this is the command we have from Him, that he who is loving God, may also love his brother.