coming together as one

¹²This is my precept: that you love one another, just as I have loved you. ¹³No one has a greater love than this: that he lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴You are my friends, if you do what I instruct you.

⁷Most beloved, let us love one another. For love is of God. And everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. ⁸Whoever does not love, does not know God. For God is love. ⁹The love of God was made apparent to us in this way: that God sent his only-begotten Son into the world, so that we might live through him. ¹⁰In this is love: not as if we had loved God, but that he first loved us, and so he sent his Son as a propitiation for our sins. ¹¹Most beloved, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another. ¹²No one has ever seen God. But if we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

²⁵not deserting our assembly, as some are accustomed to do, but consoling one another, and even more so as you see that the day is approaching.

¹²No one has ever seen God. But if we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

²Carry one another’s burdens, and so shall you fulfill the law of Christ.

⁸And finally, may you all be of one mind: compassionate, loving brotherhood, merciful, meek, humble,

²⁴And let us be considerate of one another, so as to prompt ourselves to charity and to good works, ²⁵not deserting our assembly, as some are accustomed to do, but consoling one another, and even more so as you see that the day is approaching.

²⁶What is next, brothers? When you gather together, each one of you may have a psalm, or a doctrine, or a revelation, or a language, or an interpretation, but let everything be done for edification.

²⁰For wherever two or three are gathered in my name, there am I, in their midst.”

¹⁶Be of the same mind toward one another: not savoring what is exalted, but consenting in humility. Do not choose to seem wise to yourself.

¹⁰And so, I beg you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that every one of you speak in the same way, and that there be no schisms among you. So may you become perfect, with the same mind and with the same judgment.

¹A Canticle in steps: of David. Behold, how good and how pleasing it is for brothers to dwell in unity.

³¹Behold, the days are approaching, says the Lord, when I will form a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, ³²not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day when I took them by the hand, so as to lead them away from the land of Egypt, the covenant which they nullified, though I was the ruler over them, says the Lord. ³³But this will be the covenant that I will form with the house of Israel, after those days, says the Lord: I will give my law to their inner most being, and I will write it upon their heart. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. ³⁴And they will no longer teach, a man his neighbor, and a man his brother, saying: ‘Know the Lord.’ For all will know me, from the littlest of them even to the greatest, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will no longer remember their sin.