48. Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. ROM. XII, 9. Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. HEB. X, 24. And let us consider one another, to provoke unto love, and to good works. 1 PETER I, 22. Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently. 1 JOHN II, 10. He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. 1 JOHN IV, 20. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar. For he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? 21. And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God loveth his brother also. 1 JOHN III, 18. My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. PROV. XVIII, 24. A man that hath friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. 1 THESS. IV, 9. But as touching brotherly love, ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. ROM. XII, 10. Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another. 1 THESS. III, 12. And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you. EPH. I, 15. Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, 16. Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers. 2 THESS. I, 3. We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth. LEV. XIX, 17. Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbor, and not suffer sin upon him. 1 JOHN III, 14. We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. 15. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. EX. XXIII, 5. If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him. ROM. XII, 21. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. 2. JOY. (1.) _Rejoice in God._ PHIL. III, 1. Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe. ROM. V, 11. And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. PSALM XXXII, 11. Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.