“Do you love Me?” We will not likely hear this same question as an audible voice from Jesus as Peter did. Instead the Lord will ask it again and again through the circumstances of our own life, and in particular through the crosses He sends us. The occasion to express our love might be a physical suffering, a need to forgive or show patience to someone who has wronged us, or an interior wound or painful memory that just doesn’t go away. But Jesus will ask, “Do you love Me?”
My command is this: love each other as I have loved you… Greater love has no one than this; that he lay down his life for his friends (John 15:12-13).
This is how we know what love is: Jesus the Christ laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers! (1 John 3:16)
I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other in the same way that I have loved you. Everyone will know that you are My disciples because of your love for each other (John 13:34-35).
Love is the fulfillment of the law. (Romans 13:10)
God loved me not because I was loveable but because it was His nature to do so. Now He commands me to show the same love to others by saying: “Love one another as I have loved you.” I may get irritated at others while trying to do this, but just think how God has a right to be irritated with me! Love is displayed in spontaneous ways, but it has to be maintained in the heart through discipline.
Dear Friends, if this is the way God loved us, we must also love each other [with the same way]. No one has ever seen God. If we love each other, God lives in us, and His love is perfected in us [so we can share it] (1 John 4:11-12).
Above all, love each other deeply because love covers over a multitude of sins (1 Peter 4:8).
For this is the message that you heard from the beginning: that we should love one another (1 John 3:11).
My goal in giving these orders is for love to flow from a pure heart, from a clear conscience, and from a sincere faith (1 Timothy 1:5).
Dear children, we must show love through actions that are sincere, not through empty words (1 John 3:18).
Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers over all wrongs (Proverbs 10:12).
This is my command: love each other! (John 15:17)
Love means that we live by doing what He commands. We were commanded to live in love, and you have heard this from the beginning (2 John 6).
… I ask that we love one another (2 John 5).
Show family affection to one another with brotherly love. Outdo one another in showing honor. Do not lack diligence; be fervent in spirit; serve the Lord. Rejoice in hope; be patient in affliction; be persistent in prayer. Share with the saints in their needs; pursue hospitality. Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep. Be in agreement with one another. Do not be proud; instead, associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own estimation. Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Try to do what is honorable in everyone’s eyes. If possible, on your part, live at peace with everyone. (Romans 12:10-18).
Be imitators of God therefore, as dearly loved children. And live a life of love (Ephesians 5:1-2).
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