John 15:12-13
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12 This is my commandment: love one another as I love you.(A) 13 [a]No one has greater love than this,(B) to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
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- 15:13 For one’s friends: or: “those whom one loves.” In Jn 15:9–13a, the words for love are related to the Greek agapaō. In Jn 15:13b–15, the words for love are related to the Greek phileō. For John, the two roots seem synonymous and mean “to love”; cf. also Jn 21:15–17. The word philos is used here.
John 15:17
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17 This I command you: love one another.(A)
The World’s Hatred.[a]
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- 15:18–16:4 The hostile reaction of the world. There are synoptic parallels, predicting persecution, especially at Mt 10:17–25; 24:9–10.
Leviticus 19:18
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18 Take no revenge and cherish no grudge against your own people. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.(A)
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1 Thessalonians 4:9
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Mutual Charity. 9 On the subject of mutual charity you have no need for anyone to write you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.(A)
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1 John 2:7-10
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7 Beloved, I am writing no new commandment to you but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard.(A) 8 And yet I do write a new commandment to you, which holds true in him and among you,[a] for the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining.(B) 9 Whoever says he is in the light, yet hates his brother, is still in the darkness.(C) 10 Whoever loves his brother remains in the light, and there is nothing in him to cause a fall.(D)
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- 2:8 Which holds true in him and among you: literally, “a thing that holds true in him and in you.”
1 John 3:23
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23 And his commandment is this: we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another just as he commanded us.(A)
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2 John 5
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5 But now, Lady, I ask you, not as though I were writing a new commandment but the one we have had from the beginning: let us love one another.(A)
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