brotherly love
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10loving one another with fraternal charity, surpassing one another in honor:
20If anyone says that he loves God, but hates his brother, then he is a liar. For he who does not love his brother, whom he does see, in what way can he love God, whom he does not see?
1May fraternal charity remain in you.
4Charity is patient, is kind. Charity does not envy, does not act wrongly, is not inflated. 5Charity is not ambitious, does not seek for itself, is not provoked to anger, devises no evil. 6Charity does not rejoice over iniquity, but rejoices in truth. 7Charity suffers all, believes all, hopes all, endures all. 8Charity is never torn away, even if prophecies pass away, or languages cease, or knowledge is destroyed.
34I give you a new commandment: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, so also must you love one another.
13No one has a greater love than this: that he lay down his life for his friends.
8And finally, may you all be of one mind: compassionate, loving brotherhood, merciful, meek, humble,
18My little sons, let us not love in words only, but in works and in truth.
7Most beloved, let us love one another. For love is of God. And everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
34I give you a new commandment: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, so also must you love one another. 35By this, all shall recognize that you are my disciples: if you will have love for one another.”
35By this, all shall recognize that you are my disciples: if you will have love for one another.”
26And so, if one part suffers anything, all the parts suffer with it. Or, if one part finds glory, all the parts rejoice with it.
9But concerning the charity of brotherhood, we have no need to write to you. For you yourselves have learned from God that you should love one another.