John 13:34-34

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also
are to love one another. 35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love
for one another
Matthew 22:37-39
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your
neighbor as yourself
1 John 4:7
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God
and knows God.
John 3:16
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not
perish but have eternal life.
1 Peter 1:22
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one
another earnestly from a pure heart,
John 25:12-13
12 This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has
no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
1 John 2:5
but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we
are in him:
1 John 2:6
6 whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.
Galatians 5:13
13 For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for
the flesh, but through love serve one another.
1 John 4:10
10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the
propitiation for our sins.

John 13:1-17
Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of
this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 2
During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simons son, to
betray him, 3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had
come from God and was going back to God, 4 rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments,
and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. 5 Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash
the disciples feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. 6 He came to
Simon Peter, who said to him, Lord, do you wash my feet? 7 Jesus answered him, What I am
doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand. 8 Peter said to him, You
shall never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.
9 Simon Peter said to him, Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head! 10 Jesus said
to him, The one who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but is completely

clean. And you are clean, but not every one of you.11 For he knew who was to betray him; that
was why he said, Not all of you are clean.
12 When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said
to them, Do you understand what I have done to you? 13 You call me Teacher and Lord, and you
are right, for so I am. 14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to
wash one anothers feet. 15 For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I
have done to you. 16 Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a
messenger greater than the one who sent him. 17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you
do them.
1 John 3:16-18
16 By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the
brothers. 17 But if anyone has the worlds goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart
against him, how does Gods love abide in him? 18 Little children, let us not love in word or talk but
in deed and in truth.
1 John 3:18
18 Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

1 Corinthians 13
The Way of Love
13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a
clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all
knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I
give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not
insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices
with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for
knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the
perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like
a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see
in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have
been fully known. 13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is
love.