Colossians 3:14 Cross References

Colossians 3:14

14: And the most important piece of clothing you must wear is love. Love is what binds us all together in perfect harmony.

Most important of all, continue to show deep love for each other, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Live a life filled with love for others, following the example of Christ, who loved you and gave himself as a sacrifice to take away your sins. And God was pleased, because that sacrifice was like sweet perfume to him.

Always keep yourselves united in the Holy Spirit, and bind yourselves together with peace.

So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other.

My goal is that they will be encouraged and knit together by strong ties of love. I want them to have full confidence because they have complete understanding of God's secret plan, which is Christ himself.

If I could speak in any language in heaven or on earth but didn't love others, I would only be making meaningless noise like a loud gong or a clanging cymbal.
If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I knew all the mysteries of the future and knew everything about everything, but didn't love others, what good would I be? And if I had the gift of faith so that I could speak to a mountain and make it move, without love I would be no good to anybody.
If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn't love others, I would be of no value whatsoever.
Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud
or rude. Love does not demand its own way. Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged.

Pay all your debts, except the debt of love for others. You can never finish paying that! If you love your neighbor, you will fulfill all the requirements of God's law.

Godliness leads to love for other Christians, and finally you will grow to have genuine love for everyone.

The purpose of my instruction is that all the Christians there would be filled with love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and sincere faith.

I in them and you in me, all being perfected into one. Then the world will know that you sent me and will understand that you love them as much as you love me.

And this is his commandment: We must believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as he commanded us.

Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
But anyone who does not love does not know God--for God is love.
God showed how much he loved us by sending his only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him.
This is real love. It is not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.
Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other.

And God himself has commanded that we must love not only him but our Christian brothers and sisters, too.

Long ago, even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes.

But I don't need to write to you about the Christian love that should be shown among God's people. For God himself has taught you to love one another.

So let us stop going over the basics of Christianity again and again. Let us go on instead and become mature in our understanding. Surely we don't need to start all over again with the importance of turning away from evil deeds and placing our faith in God.

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