Having no regard for the command of God, you hold fast to human tradition.”

Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have already heard.

He also said to them, “You neatly reject the commandment of God in order to set up your tradition.

But Jesus said to them, “He wrote this commandment for you because of your hard hearts.

Then they returned and prepared aromatic spices and perfumes. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

“I give you a new commandment – to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

to obey this command without fault or failure until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ

He answered them, “And why do you disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

For I have not spoken from my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me what I should say and what I should speak.

but I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up, let us go from here.”

And the commandment we have from him is this: that the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian too.

I rejoiced greatly because I have found some of your children living according to the truth, just as the Father commanded us.

But now I ask you, lady (not as if I were writing a new commandment to you, but the one we have had from the beginning), that we love one another.

but he answered his father, ‘Look! These many years I have worked like a slave for you, and I never disobeyed your commands. Yet you never gave me even a goat so that I could celebrate with my friends!

No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This commandment I received from my Father.”

Those who accompanied Paul escorted him as far as Athens, and after receiving an order for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they left.

And those of the sons of Levi who receive the priestly office have authorization according to the law to collect a tithe from the people, that is, from their fellow countrymen, although they too are descendants of Abraham.

On the other hand, I am writing a new commandment to you which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.

Now this is his commandment: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he gave us the commandment.