2 Peter 3:17 BSB
New Testament
Therefore, beloved, since you already know these things, be on your guard so that you will not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure standing.
1 John 2:5 BSB
New Testament
But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him:
1 John 2:7 BSB
New Testament
Beloved, I am not writing to you a new commandment, but an old one, which you have had from the beginning. This commandment is the message you have heard.
1 John 2:10 BSB
New Testament
Whoever loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no cause of stumbling in him.
1 John 2:15 BSB
New Testament
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1 John 3:1 BSB
New Testament
Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.
1 John 3:2 BSB
New Testament
Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is.
1 John 3:10 BSB
New Testament
By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother.
1 John 3:11 BSB
New Testament
This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
1 John 3:14 BSB
New Testament
We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.
1 John 3:16 BSB
New Testament
By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
1 John 3:17 BSB
New Testament
If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him?
1 John 3:18 BSB
New Testament
Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.
1 John 3:21 BSB
New Testament
Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God,
1 John 3:23 BSB
New Testament
And this is His commandment: that we should believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and we should love one another just as He commanded us.
1 John 4:1 BSB
New Testament
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.
1 John 4:7 BSB
New Testament
Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
1 John 4:8 BSB
New Testament
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
1 John 4:9 BSB
New Testament
This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.
1 John 4:10 BSB
New Testament
And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
1 John 4:11 BSB
New Testament
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
1 John 4:12 BSB
New Testament
No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.
1 John 4:16 BSB
New Testament
And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
1 John 4:17 BSB
New Testament
In this way, love has been perfected among us, so that we may have confidence on the day of judgment; for in this world we are just like Him.
1 John 4:18 BSB
New Testament
There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been perfected in love.