How does God expect us to behave and act?

₁₁If we hate others, we are living and walking in the dark. We don't know where we are going, because we can't see in the dark.

₁₅If you hate each other, you are murderers, and we know that murderers do not have eternal life. ₁₆We know what love is because Jesus gave his life for us. That's why we must give our lives for each other.

₁₉We love because God loved us first. ₂₀But if we say we love God and don't love each other, we are liars. We cannot see God. So how can we love God, if we don't love the people we can see? ₂₁The commandment that God has given us is: “Love God and love each other!”

₃₁The second most important commandment says: ‘Love others as much as you love yourself.’ No other commandment is more important than these.”

₁₃Put up with each other, and forgive anyone who does you wrong, just as Christ has forgiven you.

₃₂Instead, be kind and merciful, and forgive others, just as God forgave you because of Christ.

₂₁Do not ill-treat or abuse foreigners who live among you. Remember, you were foreigners in Egypt.

₃₃Don't ill-treat any foreigners who live in your land. ₃₄Instead, treat them as well as you treat citizens and love them as much as you love yourself. Remember, you were once foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

₁My friends, if you have faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, you won't treat some people better than others.

₈You will do well, if you obey the most important law in the Scriptures. It is the law that commands us to love others as much as we love ourselves. ₉But if you treat some people better than others, you have done wrong, and the Scriptures teach that you have sinned.

₃Don't be jealous or proud, but be humble and consider others more important than yourselves. ₄Care about them as much as you care about yourselves