“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
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John · John 15
John 15:12
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11I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.
John 15:12
“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
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13Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
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- Ecclesiastes 4:9-12Shares a themeTwo are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up. Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone? If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.Shared with Weddings
- Song of Solomon 8:6-7Shares a themeSet me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of the LORD. Many waters can’t quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned.Shared with Weddings
- Colossians 3:12-14Shares a themePut on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do. Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.Shared with Weddings
- Genesis 2:18Shares a themeThe LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”Shared with Weddings
- 1 Corinthians 13:4-8Shares a themeLove is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.Shared with Weddings
- Ruth 1:16-17Shares a themeRuth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God. Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.”Shared with Weddings