John 15:12 Cross References - Williams

¹² This is my command to you, to keep on loving one another as I have loved you.

³⁴ I give you a new command, to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you too must love one another.

¹⁰ In brotherly love be affectionate to one another, in personal honors put one another to the fore,

² and practice living in love, just as Christ loved you too and gave Himself for you as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

¹² May the Lord make you increase and overflow in love for one another and for all men, as my love for you does,

⁹ Now as to brotherly love, you have no need of anyone's writing you, for you have yourselves been taught by God to love one another,

³ We always ought to be thanking God for you, brothers, as it is right to do so, because your faith is growing so much and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing

²² Since you have purified your souls by obeying the truth, in sincere love for the brotherhood you must love one another heartily and fervently,

⁸ Finally, you must all live in harmony, be sympathetic, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, humble,

⁸ Above everything else keep your love for one another fervent, because love covers up a multitude of sins.

⁷ Dearly beloved, I am not writing you a new command, but an old one that you have had from the beginning. That old command is the message that you have heard. ⁸ Yet it is a new command that I am writing you; it is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining. ⁹ Whoever claims to be in the light, and yet continues to hate his brother is still in darkness. ¹⁰ Whoever continues to love his brother is always in the light, and he is no hindrance to others.

¹¹ it is so because the message that you have heard from the beginning is this: We should love one another. ¹² We must not be like Cain who belonged to the evil one and butchered his brother. And why did he butcher him? Because his own actions were wicked and his brother's upright. ¹³ You must not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you. ¹⁴ We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love our brothers. Whoever does not continue to love continues still in death. ¹⁵ Anyone who keeps on hating his brother is a murderer; and you know that no murderer can have eternal life remaining in him. ¹⁶ We know what love is from the fact that He laid down His life for us; and so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. ¹⁷ But if anyone has the world's means of supporting life and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how can love to God remain in him? ¹⁸ Dear children, let us stop loving with words or lips alone, but let us love with actions and in truth.

²³ His command is this, that we should believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ and practice loving one another, just as He commanded us to do.

²¹ This is the command that we get from Him, that whoever loves God loves his brother too.