Walking in Love

Leviticus 19:18 You shall not take revenge nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor (acquaintance, associate, companion) as yourself; I am the LORD. 

Matthew 5:44-45 But I say to you, love [that is, unselfishly seek the best or higher good for] your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,  
v 45 so that you may [show yourselves to] be the children of your Father who is in heaven. 

John 13:34-35 I am giving you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too are to love one another.  
v 35 By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you have love and unselfish concern for one another. 

Romans 13:8 Owe nothing to anyone except to love and seek the best for one another; for he who [unselfishly] loves his neighbor has fulfilled the [essence of the] law [relating to one’s fellowman]. 

1 Corinthians 16:14 Let everything you do be done in love [motivated and inspired by God’s love for us].  

Philippians 2:3 Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit [through factional motives, or strife], but with [an attitude of] humility [being neither arrogant nor self - righteous], regard others as more important than yourselves. 

1 Thessalonians 3:12 May the Lord cause you to increase and excel and overflow in love for one another, and for all people, just as we also do for you; 

1 Peter 4:8 Above all, have fervent and unfailing love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins [it overlooks unkindness and unselfishly seeks the best for others]. 

1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us [unselfishly] love and seek the best for one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves [others] is born of God and knows God [through personal experience]. 

1 John 4:11-12 Beloved, if God so loved us [in this incredible way], we also ought to love one another.  
v 12 No one has seen God at any time. But if we love one another [with unselfish concern], God abides in us, and His love [the love that is His essence abides in us and] is completed and perfected in us. 

1 John 4:19 We love, because He first loved us.