My Command is This: Love Each Other as I have Loved You.
Sunday, February 22, 2026
Reverend Larry Deering
Scripture
John 14:15
15If you love me, keep my commands.
John 13:34-35
34A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
35By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.
John 15:4
4Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
John 13:8
8No, said Peter, you shall never wash my feet. Jesus answered, Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.
Matthew 22:37-39
37Jesus replied: 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'
38This is the first and greatest commandment.
39And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'
1 Corinthians 13:13
13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
John 15:12
12My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
John 15:9-11
9As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.
10If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain in his love.
11I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.
John 15:16-17
16You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit-fruit that will last-and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.
17This is my command: Love each other.
1 Corinthians 13:1-8
1If I speak in the tongues Or [languages] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
3If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, Some manuscripts [body to the flames] but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.