When We Love

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.

We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

We love him, because he first loved us.

And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.

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.

• Sincerity

My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?