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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; ...
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.
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.
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”
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.
And again Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son, and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come. Again he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, See, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast.’ But they paid no attention and went off, one to his farm, another to his business, ...
“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.
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.
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.
We love because he first loved 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.
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
Let all that you do be done in love.
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
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. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 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. This is the great and first commandment. ...
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
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.
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.
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.
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.
For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
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.
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,
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?
The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
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.
And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.
If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
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.
I appeal to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf,
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.”
Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
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.
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.
Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
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. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. ...
Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again.
The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
“But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.
And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’
And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.
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. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
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.
The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth.
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 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,
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. 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.
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.
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
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.
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death. Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. 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 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.
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.
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:
Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved gain from wrongdoing,
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.
For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit;
Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.
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,
If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
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.
Let brotherly love continue.
For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.”
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.
You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions.”
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.
But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared,
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.
For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.
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.
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.
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.
Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
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.
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,
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—
For we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you,
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,
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,
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.
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.
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
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,
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,
For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints,
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.
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law. You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace. For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. ...
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.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
And why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!
Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
So give proof before the churches of your love and of our boasting about you to these men.
I say this not as a command, but to prove by the earnestness of others that your love also is genuine.
But as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in our love for you—see that you excel in this act of grace also.
By purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love;
For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died;
So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him.
For I wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.
My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.
If anyone has no love for the Lord, let him be accursed. Our Lord, come!
Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
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; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant
But if anyone loves God, he is known by God.
Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up.
What do you wish? Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love in a spirit of gentleness?
But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor e