Finding True Love

And delight thyself on Jehovah, And He giveth to thee the petitions of thy heart.

we--we love him, because He--He first loved us;

Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;

and now there doth remain faith, hope, love--these three; and the greatest of these <FI>is<Fi> love.

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

`If ye love me, my commands keep,

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

and above all these things, <FI>have<Fi> love, which is a bond of the perfection,

For ye--to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;

for I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, — read the full passage →

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another; — read the full passage →

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love;

and we--we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.

he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love, — read the full passage →

and God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us, — read the full passage →

let all your things be done in love.

the love to the neighbour doth work no ill; the love, therefore, <FI>is<Fi> the fulness of law.

To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other--law he hath fulfilled,

and the hope doth not make ashamed, because the love of God hath been poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that hath been given to us.

in this shall all know that ye are my disciples, if ye may have love one to another.'

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;

<FI> Whoso<Fi> hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

Let not kindness and truth forsake thee, Bind them on thy neck, Write them on the tablet of thy heart, — read the full passage →

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

if any one may say--`I love God,' and his brother he may hate, a liar he is; for he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God--whom he hath not seen--how is he able to love?

God no one hath ever seen; if we may love one another, God in us doth remain, and His love is having been perfected in us;

See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;

who, in the power of God are being guarded, through faith, unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time, — read the full passage →

unceasingly remembering of you the work of the faith, and the labour of the love, and the endurance of the hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father,

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, — read the full passage →

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him <FI>in<Fi> all things, who is the head--the Christ;

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,

among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath--as also the others,

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

The love doth never fail; and whether <FI>there be<Fi> prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

let no one seek his own--but each another's.

in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good;

Who shall separate us from the love of the Christ? tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

for what the law was not able to do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, His own Son having sent in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, did condemn the sin in the flesh,

`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'

And he answering said, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God out of all thy heart, and out of all thy soul, and out of all thy strength, and out of all thy understanding, and thy neighbour as thyself.'

and the second <FI>is<Fi> like <FI>it<Fi> , this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; --greater than these there is no other command.'

For the mountains depart, and the hills remove, And My kindness from thee departeth not, And the covenant of My peace removeth not, Said hath thy loving one--Jehovah.

Set me as a seal on thy heart, as a seal on thine arm, For strong as death is love, Sharp as Sheol is jealousy, Its burnings <FI>are<Fi> burnings of fire, a flame of Jah!

Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth, — read the full passage →

Cause me to hear in the morning Thy kindness, For in Thee I have trusted, Cause me to know the way that I go, For unto Thee I have lifted up my soul.

in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

and you the Lord cause to increase and to abound in the love to one another, and to all, even as we also to you,

that no one be moved in these tribulations, for yourselves have known that for this we are set,

Put to death, then, your members that <FI>are<Fi> upon the earth--whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry--

and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,

and God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us,

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;

Followers of me become ye, as I also <FI>am<Fi> of Christ. — read the full passage →

and all to Moses were baptized in the cloud, and in the sea;

`I am the vine, ye the branches; he who is remaining in me, and I in him, this one doth bear much fruit, because apart from me ye are not able to do anything;

every branch in me not bearing fruit, He doth take it away, and every one bearing fruit, He doth cleanse by pruning it, that it may bear more fruit;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

and the second <FI>is<Fi> like to it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;

for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome;

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

And to the messenger of the assembly in Sardis write: These things saith he who is having the Seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars: I have known thy works, and that thou hast the name that thou dost live, and thou art dead; — read the full passage →

And ye, beloved, on your most holy faith building yourselves up, in the Holy Spirit praying, — read the full passage →

kindness to you, and peace, and love, be multiplied! — read the full passage →

Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love;

in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins.

In this was manifested the love of God in us, because His Son--the only begotten--hath God sent to the world, that we may live through him;

Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God; — read the full passage →

for sufficient to us <FI>is<Fi> the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revellings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries,

for `he who is willing to love life, and to see good days, let him guard his tongue from evil, and his lips--not to speak guile; — read the full passage →

whose adorning--let it not be that which is outward, of plaiting of hair, and of putting around of things of gold, or of putting on of garments,

Let brotherly love remain; — read the full passage →

and thou, O man of God, these things flee, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness;

let no one despise thy youth, but a pattern become thou of those believing in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity; — read the full passage →

willing to be teachers of law, not understanding either the things they say, nor concerning what they asseverate,

and the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God, and to the endurance of the Christ.

because of this also, I, no longer forbearing, did send to know your faith, lest he who is tempting did tempt you, and in vain might be our labour.

We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers,

For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, — read the full passage →

but ye also, every one in particular--let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife--that she may reverence the husband.

that He may give to you, according to the riches of His glory, with might to be strengthened through His Spirit, in regard to the inner man, — read the full passage →

that by revelation He made known to me the secret, according as I wrote before in few <FI>words<Fi> --