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Love And Hate
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But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you,
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. — read the full passage →
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
Ye that love the Lord, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace.
Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord.
I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.
He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. — read the full passage →
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; — read the full passage →
As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, — read the full passage →
I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, — read the full passage →
For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
For many are called, but few are chosen.
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Let all your things be done with charity.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. — read the full passage →
Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. — read the full passage →
The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth; — read the full passage →
Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, — read the full passage →
If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs. — read the full passage →
He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it. — read the full passage →
Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.
In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, — read the full passage →
My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger, — read the full passage →
The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. — read the full passage →
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, — read the full passage →
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. — read the full passage →
The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi. — read the full passage →
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →
And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side. — read the full passage →
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