prefer one another
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10loving one another with fraternal charity, surpassing one another in honor:
34I give you a new commandment: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, so also must you love one another.
11Because of this, console one another and build up one another, just as you are doing.
32And be kind and merciful to one another, forgiving one another, just as God has forgiven you in Christ.
8You should owe nothing to anyone, except so as to love one another. For whoever loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
8But, before all things, have a constant mutual charity among yourselves. For love covers a multitude of sins.
3Let nothing be done by contention, nor in vain glory. Instead, in humility, let each of you esteem others to be better than himself.
13For you, brothers, have been called to liberty. Only you must not make liberty into an occasion for the flesh, but instead, serve one another through the charity of the Spirit.
2with all humility and meekness, with patience, supporting one another in charity.
7Most beloved, let us love one another. For love is of God. And everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
5Similarly, young persons, be subject to the elders. And infuse all humility among one another, for God resists the arrogant, but to the humble he gives grace.
11For this is the announcement that you heard from the beginning: that you should love one another.