Love One Another
How are we loving one another in this crazy season?
What an incredible time to be loving one another, encouraging one another, bearing with one another, and building up one another?
Are we speaking in a way that does that? Are we posting in a way that does that?
Instead, in the craziness of this time we can find ourselves stressed with one another, aggravated with one another, and downright unkind to one another.
As I was looking at some of the “one another” commands, they were a great and needed reminder to me and I hope they are to you as well.
Here are a few “one another” reminders from the scriptures…
“Be at peace with one another” (Mark 9:50)
“Wash one another’s feet” (John 13:14)
“Love one another” (John 13:34–35, 15:12, 17, Romans 12:10a, 1 Thessalonians 4:9, 1 Peter 1:22, 4:8, 1 John 3:11, 23, 4:7, 11–12, 2 John 5)
“Outdo one another in showing honor” (Romans 12:10b)
“Live in harmony with one another” (Romans 12:16, 15:5–6)
“Welcome one another” (Romans 15:7)
“Instruct one another” (Romans 15:14)
“Greet one another with a holy kiss” (Romans 16:16, 1 Corinthians 16:20, 2 Corinthians 13:12, 1 Peter 5:14)
“Wait for one another …” (1 Corinthians 11:13)
“Have the same care for one another” (1 Corinthians 12:25)
“Comfort one another” (2 Corinthians 13:11)
“Agree with one another” (2 Corinthians 13:11)
“Serve one another” (Galatians 5:13, 1 Peter 4:10)
“Bear one another’s burdens …” (Galatians 6:2)
“Bearing with one another in love” (Ephesians 4:2)
“Be kind to one another …” (Ephesians 4:32)
“Forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you” (Ephesians 4:32)
“Addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs” (Ephesians 5:19)
“Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ” (Ephesians 5:21)
“Teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom” (Colossians 3:16)
“Increase and abound in love for one another” (1 Thessalonians 3:12)
“Encourage one another” (1 Thessalonians 4:18, Hebrews 10:25)
“Build one another up” (1 Thessalonians 5:11)
“Seek to do good to one another” (1 Thessalonians 5:15)
“Exhort one another every day” (Hebrews 3:13)
“Stir up one another to love and good works” (Hebrews 10:24)
“Confess your sins to one another” (James 5:16)
“Pray for one another” (James 5:16)
“Show hospitality to one another without grumbling” (1 Peter 4:9)
“Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another” (1 Peter 5:5)
“We have fellowship with one another” (1 John 1:7)