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For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.
For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”
And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.
And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.
And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.
If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
We love because he first loved us.
No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death.
By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,
Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory,
For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.”
You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions.”
For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
Treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
And constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.
And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...
For if your brother is grieved by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. By what you eat, do not destroy the one for whom Christ died.
Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
For they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God.
Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me.
He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”
Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”
The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
He was still speaking when, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.”
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal,
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
And they marched up over the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, but fire came down from heaven and consumed them,
And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.
Behold, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie—behold, I will make them come and bow down before your feet and they will learn that I have loved you.
“‘I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first.
And from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood
Keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.
These are hidden reefs at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, shepherds feeding themselves; waterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;
May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:
I have written something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority.
Who testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey in a manner worthy of God.
The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth.
And now I ask you, dear lady—not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another.
Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father's Son, in truth and love.
The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all who know the truth,
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world.
In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. ...
And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling.
But whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him:
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: ...
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved gain from wrongdoing,
For when he received honor and glory from God the Father, and the voice was borne to him by the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased,”
And godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.
Greet one another with the kiss of love. Peace to all of you who are in Christ.
Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit;
Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.
Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days.
Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,
For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.
Yet for love's sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—
For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.
Because I hear of your love and of the faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints,
But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared,
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people,
And so train the young women to love their husbands and children,
Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness.
But hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.
You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness,
So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy. They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.
But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.
Now there is great gain in godliness with contentment,
Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved. Teach and urge these things.
Let all who are under a yoke as slaves regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled. Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved. Teach and urge these things. If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain. ...
Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
Not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.
Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.
And the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.
Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.
And with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.
And to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.
But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.
Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another,
And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you,
But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us the good news of your faith and love and reported that you always remember us kindly and long to see us, as we long to see you—
So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves, because you had become very dear to us.
For we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you,
Remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
That their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ,
He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,
And has made known to us your love in the Spirit.
Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints,
I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need.
Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved.
Complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy,
The latter do it out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel.
And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment,
Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with love incorruptible.
Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
From whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.
Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,
With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
And to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints,
To the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.
Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love
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