Romans 12:10 Cross References - Mace

¹⁰ in brotherly kindness be passionately affected to one another; in honour prefer one another:

²⁶ but it must not be so among you: on the contrary, whoever would rise among you, let him be your minister.

¹⁰ but when you are invited, go place your self last; that he, who invited you, when he comes, may say to you, friend, go up higher: and that will do you honour before all the company at table.

³⁴ a new commandment I give unto you, "that ye love one another; that you would have the same love for one another as I have had for you." ³⁵ by this mutual love shall all men know that you are my disciples.

¹⁷ Above all I enjoin you, to love one another.

²¹ that they all may be one, as thou, father, art in me, and I in thee; that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

³² Now the whole body of believers were but one heart, and one soul: no one look'd upon what he possessed, as his own, but every thing was held in common.

⁷ attending upon the publick administration. render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due, custom to whom custom, reverence to whom reverence, honour to whom honour.

⁶ for in the christian-dispensation, neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision, but an active benevolent faith.

¹³ for, brethren, you have been called to liberty. only abuse not this freedom as a pretext to vice, but in offices of love be as servants one to another.

²² but the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, sweetness of disposition, beneficence, faithfulness, meekness, temperance:

¹ I therefore the prisoner for the Lord, beseech you to live suitably to the offers that have been made to you: ² with all humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another in love; ³ endeavouring to preserve the spiritual union by your affectionate attachment to one another.

³ Do nothing out of a spirit of contention, or for vain-glory, but modestly look upon others as if they were better than yourselves.

⁴ having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the affection you have to all christians;

⁹ As to brotherly love, I have no occasion to write about it, God himself having instructed you to love one another.

³ We are oblig'd, my brethren, to render thanks to God continually upon your account, as it is but just; since your faith still improves, and your mutual love is always increasing.

¹ Let brotherly love still reign.

²² You that have purified your souls by the holy spirit, in obeying the gospel, which obliges you to an undisguised benevolence, let your hearts be mutually affected with the most disinterested ardour;

¹⁷ of God. Be respectful to all, love your brethren, fear God, and honour the king.

⁸ In a word, live all of you in perfect agreement and sympathy, be full of fraternal love, compassion, and affability. ⁹ don't return evil for evil, nor calumny for calumny; on the contrary, bestow your benedictions, considering that your vocation obliges you thereto, as a means to obtain the divine blessing.

⁵ As for you that are young, be you submissive to those of a more advanc'd age: and do you all of you pay a becoming deference to one another: be cloak'd with humility, for " God opposes the proud, and shows favour to the humble."

⁷ to piety, fraternal affection: and to fraternal affection, universal benevolence.

⁹ he that says, he is in the light, and yet hates his brother, is still in darkness. ¹⁰ he that loves his brother, abides in the light, and will be secure from stumbling. ¹¹ but he that hates his brother, is in darkness, he walks in darkness, and knows not whither he is going, because the darkness hath blinded his eyes.

¹⁰ In this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: he that does not practise virtue, and fraternal benevolence, is not of God. ¹¹ for this is the doctrine that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. ¹² not acting like Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother: but why did he slay him? because his own actions were evil, and his brother's were virtuous. ¹³ Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. ¹⁴ as for us, we know, that we have passed from a state of death to that of life, because we love our brethren: he that does not love his brother, is in a destructive state. ¹⁵ whosoever hateth his brother, has the disposition of a murderer: and you know that no murderer has any title to eternal life. ¹⁶ this is the proof of the divine love, Christ expos'd his life for us: and we ought to expose our lives for the brethren. ¹⁷ he that possesses the enjoyments of life, and seeing his brother in want, has no compassion for him, how can he be said to have any divine love? ¹⁸ my dear children, let not our love be only in the language of our lips, but in the real effects of the heart.

¹¹ beloved, if God so loved us, we ought to love one another.

²⁰ if a man says he loves God, and yet hates his brother, he is a lyar: for he that does not love his brother, who is before his eyes, how can he love God who is invisible?