John 13:1

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

We love him, because he first loved us.

who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—

Jesus therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.”

“ ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come.”

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Jesus said these things, then lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

He said, “Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him, ‘The Teacher says, “My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.” ’ ”

teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.

You will not need to fight this battle. Set yourselves, stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh with you, O Judah and Jerusalem. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed. Go out against them tomorrow, for Yahweh is with you.’ ”

All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came from God, and was going to God,

“I command these things to you, that you may love one another.

I came from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.”

This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God’s creation, says these things:

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings, and those who are with him are called chosen and faithful.”

He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.

We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But one to whom little is forgiven, loves little.”

I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.

Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”

how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.

Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples.

I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.

I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.

Let brotherly love continue.

The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand.

But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn’t yet glorified.

They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.

So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, “Father, I thank you that you listened to me.

Jesus answered them, “The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were happening to him, went out, and said to them, “Who are you looking for?”

After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty.”

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.

{14.24} To Him now being able you to strengthen according to the gospel of mine and the preaching of Jesus Christ according to the revelation of the mystery in times of the ages kept secret,

yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,

But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.

However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

Then he came to his disciples, and said to them, “Sleep on now, and take your rest. Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him.

rejoicing in his whole world. My delight was with the sons of men.

He said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer,

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

David said, “Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be built for Yahweh must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout all countries. I will therefore make preparation for it.” So David prepared abundantly before his death.

My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.

Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness.

So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

His parents went every year to Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover.

It came to pass, when the days were near that he should be taken up, he intently set his face to go to Jerusalem

When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn’t stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”

Most certainly I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live.

Then Jesus said, “I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.

Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.

For some thought, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus said to him, “Buy what things we need for the feast,” or that he should give something to the poor.

You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I.

Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.

Jesus answered, “I told you that I am he. If therefore you seek me, let these go their way,”

Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”

Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there;

But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—