But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
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.
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.’ — read the full passage →
He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism; — read the full passage →
The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no other commandment greater than these.”
One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”
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.
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.
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.
because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.
We love him, because he first loved us.
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 has shut up all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.
Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.
But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, — read the full passage →
By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. — read the full passage →
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. — 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:
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love. — read the full passage →
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
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.
Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. — read the full passage →
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.’This is the first commandment. — read the full passage →
with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;
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 →
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. — read the full passage →
Let all that you do be done in love.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
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 →
By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
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.’This is the first commandment.
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins. — read the full passage →
that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.
And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
You didn’t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
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.
Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. — read the full passage →
One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”
Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,
By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. — read the full passage →
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →
This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.
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.
Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.
Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you; — read the full passage →
This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.
and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,
for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;
I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →
For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;
and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? — read the full passage →
He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.”
By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
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 is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.
But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,
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