| For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. | For this is the message you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. |
| Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing. | Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, as indeed you are doing. |
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| Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. | No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends. |
| There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you—who are you to judge your neighbor? | There is one lawgiver and judge who is able to save and to destroy. So who, then, are you to judge your neighbor? |
| No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known. | No one has ever seen God. It is God the only Son, who is close to the Father's heart, who has made him known. |
| Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one who takes a city. | One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and one whose temper is controlled than one who captures a city. |
| All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had. | Now the whole group of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one claimed private ownership of any possessions, but everything they owned was held in common. |
| Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. | Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. |
| Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God. | Welcome one another, therefore, just as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God. |
| Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. | With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love. |
| In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents. | Just so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents. |
| I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown. | I am coming soon; hold fast to what you have, so that no one may seize your crown. |
| Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble. | Finally, all of you, have unity of spirit, sympathy, love for one another, a tender heart, and a humble mind. |
| But you, Lord, are a shield around me, my glory, the One who lifts my head high. | But you, O Lord, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head. |
| But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’ ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate. | But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate. |
| But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many! | But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died through the one man's trespass, much more surely have the grace of God and the free gift in the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abounded for the many. |
| And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. | And let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching. |
| Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. | Bear with one another and, if anyone has a complaint against another, forgive each other; just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. |
| But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one. | But the Lord is faithful; he will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one. |
| And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. | And do not bring us to the time of trial, but rescue us from the evil one. |
| The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them. | Those who eat must not despise those who abstain, and those who abstain must not pass judgment on those who eat; for God has welcomed them. |
| For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” | For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” |
| Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched? | Or can one walk on hot coals without scorching the feet? |
| Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. | Bear one another's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. |
| Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. | So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. |
