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Keep your conscience clear, so that, when you are maligned, those who abuse you for your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame. For it is better to suffer for doing good, if suffering should be God’s will, than to suffer for doing evil. — I Peter 3:16b–17 (NRSV) • Context: I Peter 3:13-22

For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you should follow in his steps. “He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth.” When he was abused, he did not return abuse, when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly. He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness, by his wounds you have been healed. — 1 Peter 2:21-24 (NRSV) • Context: 1 Peter 2:11-25

Now that you have purified your souls by your obedience to the truth so that you have genuine mutual love, love one another deeply from the heart. — I Peter 1:22 (NRWV) • Context: I Peter 1:13-25

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God, everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. — I John 4:7-8 (NRSV) • Context: I John 4:7-21

For this is the message you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another … We know that we have passed from death to life because we love one another. — I John 3:11, 14a (NRSV) • Context: I John 3:11-24

Whoever says, “I am the light,” while hating a brother or sister, is still in the darkness. Whoever loves a brother or sister lives in the light. — I John 2:9-10a  (NRSV) • Context: I John 2:1-11

Those conflicts and disputes among you, where do they come from? Do they not come from your cravings that are at war within you? You want something and do not have it, so you commit murder. And you covet something and cannot obtain it… — James 4:1-2a (NRSV) • Context: James 4:1-10