2. Love One Another
1:22-2:1

3. Love One Another I. The COMMAND to Love II. The ABILITY to Love
III. The NATURE of Love

4. 1 Peter 1:21-2:1
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;…

5. 1 Peter 1:21-2:1
…for "All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, but the word of the Lord remains forever." And this word is the good news that was preached to you. So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.

6. Matthew 5:23-24
Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift.

7. 1 John 2:9
Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness

8. James 2:17
In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead

9. 1 Corinthians 16:13-14
Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love.

10. Romans 14:19
So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.

11. Galatians 5:14-15
The entire law is summed up in a single command: "Love your neighbor as yourself." If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.

12. Ephesians 4:25-29
Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil. Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor,…

13. Ephesians 4:25-29
…doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

14. 1 Peter 1:20a
He was foreknown before the foundation of the world

15. φιλαδελφία
Brotherly Love

16. 1 John 2:9-11
Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness. Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling…

17. 1 John 2:9-11
…But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

18. John 13:35
By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."

19. Mark 12:30-31
And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' The second is this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."

20. Romans 5:5
and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us

21. Ezekiel 36:25-27
I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you…

22. Ezekiel 36:25-27
…And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.

23. 1 John 4:9-11
In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 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. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

24. 2 Corinthians 5:21
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

25. How Has God Loved Us? He Loved Us FIRST
He Loved Us When We Were Completely UNLOVABLE
His Love is UNREQUITED
His Love is SACRIFICIAL
His Love is SELF-GIVING

26. Ephesians 4:2
Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love

27. Galatians 6:10
So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith

28. Romans 12:10
Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

29. 1 John 3:3
And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.

30. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things…

31. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
…Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away