100 Bible Verses about Brotherly Love

Here are 100 Bible verses about brotherly love, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.

Romans 12:10 KJV

¹⁰ Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

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1 John 4:20 KJV

²⁰ If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

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Hebrews 13:1 KJV

¹ Let brotherly love continue.

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1 Corinthians 13:4-8 KJV

⁴ Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, ⁵ Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; ⁶ Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; ⁷ Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. …

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John 13:34 KJV

³⁴ A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

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John 15:13 KJV

¹³ Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

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1 Peter 3:8 KJV

⁸ Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:

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1 John 4:7 KJV

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

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1 John 3:18 KJV

¹⁸ My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

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John 13:35 KJV

³⁵ By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

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John 13:34-35 KJV

³⁴ A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. ³⁵ By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

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1 Corinthians 12:26 KJV

²⁶ And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

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1 Thessalonians 4:9 KJV

⁹ But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

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1 Corinthians 16:14 KJV

¹⁴ Let all your things be done with charity.

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1 Corinthians 13:1-13 KJV

¹ Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. ² And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. ³ And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body …

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Colossians 3:14 KJV

¹⁴ And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

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1 John 3:16 KJV

¹⁶ Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

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1 John 3:14 KJV

¹⁴ We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

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1 John 4:12 KJV

¹² No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

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1 John 3:1 KJV

¹ Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

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Proverbs 17:17 KJV

¹⁷ A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

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1 Peter 2:17 KJV

¹⁷ Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

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1 John 3:11 KJV

¹¹ For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

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John 3:16 KJV

¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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1 Peter 1:22 KJV

²² 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:

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1 Corinthians 13:13 KJV

¹³ And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

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Romans 5:8 KJV

⁸ But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

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Psalm 133:1 KJV

¹ Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

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2 Peter 1:7 KJV

⁷ And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

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1 Peter 4:8 KJV

⁸ And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

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1 John 4:8 KJV

⁸ He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

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Hebrews 13:1-3 KJV

¹ Let brotherly love continue. ² Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. ³ Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

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Galatians 5:22-23 KJV

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, ²³ Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

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John 15:17 KJV

¹⁷ These things I command you, that ye love one another.

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Luke 6:27 KJV

²⁷ But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you,

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1 John 4:11-12 KJV

¹¹ Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. ¹² No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

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James 2:5 KJV

⁵ Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?

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Romans 13:10 KJV

¹⁰ Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

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Mark 12:33 KJV

³³ And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.

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Galatians 2:20 KJV

²⁰ I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

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Mark 12:30 KJV

³⁰ And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

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1 John 4:19 KJV

¹⁹ We love him, because he first loved us.

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Ephesians 5:25 KJV

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

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Mark 12:31 KJV

³¹ And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

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Hebrews 13:2 KJV

² Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

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1 Thessalonians 3:12 KJV

¹² And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:

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1 Corinthians 13:4 KJV

⁴ Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

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Proverbs 10:12 KJV

¹² Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

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Leviticus 19:18 KJV

¹⁸ Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord.

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1 John 5:3 KJV

³ For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

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1 John 4:16 KJV

¹⁶ And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

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Hebrews 12:14 KJV

¹⁴ Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

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Romans 12:9 KJV

⁹ Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

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John 15:12 KJV

¹² This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

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1 Peter 2:1-25 KJV

¹ Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, ² As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: ³ If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious. ⁴ To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, …

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2 Timothy 1:7 KJV

⁷ For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

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Ephesians 5:2 KJV

² And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

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1 John 5:2 KJV

² By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.

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Matthew 25:40 KJV

⁴⁰ And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

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1 John 4:18 KJV

¹⁸ There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

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Colossians 3:19 KJV

¹⁹ Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

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Philippians 1:9 KJV

⁹ And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;

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Galatians 5:14 KJV

¹⁴ For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

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1 John 4:11 KJV

¹¹ Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

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Hebrews 13:4 KJV

⁴ Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

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Galatians 5:22 KJV

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

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Galatians 5:13 KJV

¹³ For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

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Romans 12:9-10 KJV

⁹ Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. ¹⁰ Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

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Romans 1:16 KJV

¹⁶ For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

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John 14:15 KJV

¹⁵ If ye love me, keep my commandments.

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1 John 4:1 KJV

¹ Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

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1 John 2:15 KJV

¹⁵ Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

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Ephesians 4:2 KJV

² With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

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Romans 13:8-10 KJV

⁸ Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. ⁹ For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. ¹⁰ Love worketh no ill …

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Luke 10:27 KJV

²⁷ And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

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Deuteronomy 10:12-13 KJV

¹² And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, ¹³ To keep the commandments of the Lord, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?

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Deuteronomy 7:9 KJV

⁹ Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;

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2 John 1:6 KJV

⁶ And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.

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James 2:8 KJV

⁸ If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:

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Hebrews 13:3 KJV

³ Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

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2 Corinthians 5:14 KJV

¹⁴ For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

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1 Corinthians 13:1 KJV

¹ Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

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Romans 13:8 KJV

⁸ Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

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Matthew 5:44 KJV

⁴⁴ But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

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Hebrews 6:10 KJV

¹⁰ For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

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1 Corinthians 13:4-7 KJV

⁴ Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, ⁵ Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; ⁶ Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; ⁷ Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

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Proverbs 17:9 KJV

⁹ He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

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Genesis 4:9 KJV

⁹ And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper?

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Titus 3:3 KJV

³ For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

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Proverbs 15:17 KJV

¹⁷ Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

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1 John 5:1 KJV

¹ Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.

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1 Timothy 6:10 KJV

¹⁰ For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

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Genesis 18:1-33 KJV

¹ And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; ² And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground, ³ And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant: …

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Hebrews 10:32-34 KJV

³² But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions; ³³ Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used. ³⁴ For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in …

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Romans 8:28 KJV

²⁸ And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

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John 15:12-13 KJV

¹² This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

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John 15:10 KJV

¹⁰ If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.

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John 15:9 KJV

⁹ As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

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John 13:1 KJV

¹ Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.

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Matthew 22:37-39 KJV

³⁷ Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. ³⁸ This is the first and great commandment. ³⁹ And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

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