John 15:12 Cross References - Moffatt

¹² This is my command: you are to love one another as I have loved you.

³⁴ I give you a new command, to love one another — as I have loved you, you are to love one another.

¹⁰ Put affection into your love for the brotherhood; be forward to honour one another;

² and lead lives of love, just as Christ loved you and gave himself up for you to be a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

¹² And may the Lord make you increase and excel in love to one another and to all men (as is my love for you),

⁹ You need no one to write you upon brotherly love, for you are yourselves taught by God to love one another,

³ We are bound always to thank God for you, brothers — it is proper that we should, because your faith grows apace and your mutual love, one and all, is increasing.

²² Now that your obedience to the Truth has purified your souls for a brotherly love that is sincere, love one another heartily and steadily.

⁸ Lastly, you must all be united, you must have sympathy, brotherly love, compassion, and humility,

⁸ Above all, be keen to love one another, for love hides a host of sins.

⁷ Beloved, I am not writing you any new command, but an old command which you have had from the very beginning: the old command is the word you have heard. ⁸ And yet it is a new command I am writing to you — realized in him and also in yourselves, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining. ⁹ He who says he is 'in the light' and hates his brother, is in darkness still. ¹⁰ He who loves his brother remains in the light — and in the light there is no pitfall;

¹¹ For this is the message you have learned from the very beginning, that we are to love one another: ¹² we are not to be like Cain, who belonged to the evil One and slew his brother. And why did he slay him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's just. ¹³ Do not wonder, brothers, that the world hates you. ¹⁴ We know we have crossed from death to life, because we love the brotherhood; he who has no love [for his brother] remains in death. ¹⁵ Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining within him. ¹⁶ We know what love is by this, that He laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for the brotherhood. ¹⁷ But whoever possesses this world's goods, and notices his brother in need, and shuts his heart against him, how can love to God remain in him? ¹⁸ My dear children, let us put our love not into words or into talk but into deeds, and make it real.

²³ Now this is what he commands, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another as he has commanded us to do;

²¹ And we get this command from him, that he who loves God is to love his brother as well.