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John 13:34-35
⁽³⁴⁾ A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
⁽³⁵⁾ By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

Rom 12:1-5
⁽¹)I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
⁽²⁾ And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
⁽³⁾ For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
⁽⁴⁾ For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:
⁽⁵⁾ So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

Galatians 6:8-10
⁽⁸⁾ For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
⁽⁹⁾ And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
⁽¹⁰⁾ As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

Eph 4:1-3
⁽¹⁾ I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
⁽²⁾ With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
⁽³⁾ Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

1 Cor 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

Hebrews 12:14
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

Galatians 5:13
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

James 1:2-6
⁽²⁾ My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
⁽³⁾ Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
⁽⁴⁾ But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
⁽⁵⁾ If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
⁽⁶⁾ But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

2 Peter 1:5-10
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
⁽⁶⁾ And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
⁽⁷⁾ And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
⁽⁸⁾ For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
⁽⁹⁾ But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
⁽¹⁰⁾ Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

1 Peter 3:1-4, 7-17
⁽¹⁾ Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
⁽²⁾ While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
⁽³⁾ Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
⁽⁴⁾ But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

⁽⁷⁾ Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
⁽⁸⁾ Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
⁽⁹⁾ Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
⁽¹⁰⁾ For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
⁽¹¹⁾ Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
⁽¹²⁾ For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.
⁽¹³⁾ And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good?
⁽¹⁴⁾ But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;
⁽¹⁵⁾ But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
⁽¹⁶⁾ Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
⁽¹⁷⁾  For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.

1 Peter 2:11-12
⁽¹¹⁾ Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
⁽¹²⁾ Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Colossians 1:21-23
⁽²¹⁾ And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
⁽²²⁾ In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
⁽²³⁾ If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;

1 Thessalonians 5:5-11
⁽⁵⁾ Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
⁽⁶⁾ Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
⁽⁷⁾ For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
⁽⁸⁾ But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
⁽⁹⁾ For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
⁽¹⁰⁾ Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
⁽¹¹⁾ Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

Titus 2:2-8
⁽²⁾ That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
⁽³⁾ The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
⁽⁴⁾ That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
⁽⁵⁾ To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
⁽⁶⁾ Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.
⁽⁷⁾ In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,
⁽⁸⁾ Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.

1 Peter 5:1-9
⁽¹⁾ The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
⁽²⁾ Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
⁽³⁾ Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being examples to the flock.
⁽⁴⁾ And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.
⁽⁵⁾ Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
⁽⁶⁾ Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
⁽⁷⁾ Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
⁽⁸⁾ Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
⁽⁹⁾ Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

1 Peter 1:22
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

1 John 3:15-16
⁽¹⁵⁾ Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
⁽¹⁶⁾ Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

James 1:22
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

John 6:27-29
⁽²⁷⁾ Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
⁽²⁸⁾ Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?
⁽²⁹⁾ Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-7
⁽³⁾ For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
⁽⁴⁾ That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
⁽⁵⁾ Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
⁽⁶⁾ That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
⁽⁷⁾ For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

2 Corinthians 7:1
Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Matthew 5:13-16
⁽¹³⁾ Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
⁽¹⁴⁾ Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
⁽¹⁵⁾ Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
⁽¹⁶⁾ Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Romans 8:5-6
⁽⁵⁾ For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
⁽⁶⁾ For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

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