But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
We love him, because he first loved us.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.
with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;
If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →
Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
Let all that you do be done in love.
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →
I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”
See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.
If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.
You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.
But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. — read the full passage →
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.
We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — read the full passage →
He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. — read the full passage →
We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ — read the full passage →
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
The Pharisees therefore said to him, “You testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid.”
For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,
Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.
What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,
If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.
When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan. — read the full passage →
No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. — read the full passage →
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another. — read the full passage →
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love. — read the full passage →
Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:
for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →
Topical index adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Verse text: WEB.