12 These people are blemishes at your love feasts, eating with you without the slightest qualm shepherds who feed only themselves. They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted twice dead.
5 And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
11 In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will,
13 Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human authority: whether to the emperor, as the supreme authority,
42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
46 Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts,
24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.”
13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.
34 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.