'Love One Another' in the Bible

A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you have love and unselfish concern for one another.”

This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

These things I command you, that ye love one another.

Be devoted to one another with [authentic] brotherly affection [as members of one family], give preference to one another in honor;

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

with all humility [forsaking self-righteousness], and gentleness [maintaining self-control], with patience, bearing with one another in [unselfish] love.

and as for you, may the Lord teach you to love one another and all men, with a growing and a glowing love, resembling our love for you.

But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

Seeing 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:

Above all continue to love one another fervently, for love throws a veil over a multitude of faults.

My dearly loved ones, I am not writing to you about a new commandment, but about an old one. [It is the one] you had learned about from the beginning. [Note: This is the commandment to love one another (3:1: II John 5) which Jesus had taught his disciples during His earthly ministry. See Mark 12:31]. This old commandment is the word [of God] which you heard [previously].

Yet, I am [also] writing to you about a new commandment [Note: This commandment was to love one another as Jesus loved them. See John 13:34]; its truth is [being demonstrated] by Christ [perfectly] and [also] by you people [in a lesser measure], because the darkness [of sin] is passing away, and the real light [of righteousness] is already shining [in people's lives].

You people should continue [to practice] what you heard from the beginning [i.e., to love one another, See verses 7-11]. If you do, then you also will continue in [fellowship with] the Son, and with the Father.

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

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love one another. The person who does not love remains spiritually dead.

And 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.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

And 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.