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Love And Hate
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but I say unto you, Love your enemies, and pray for them that persecute you;
But I say unto you that hear, Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you,
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging 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 on him should not perish, but have eternal life.
My little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.
O ye that love Jehovah, 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 thy heart: thou shalt surely rebuke thy neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.
If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.
The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, And the perverse mouth, do I hate.
Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should abide: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
Let love be without hypocrisy. 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 was said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy:
We know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in the evil one.
He that despiseth his neighbor is void of wisdom; But a man of understanding holdeth his peace.
Thou shalt not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people; but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am Jehovah.
I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me; for they are thine:
Hatred stirreth up strifes; But love covereth all transgressions.
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, cannot love God whom he hath not seen.
because to you it hath been granted in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer in his behalf:
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 loseth it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
But this thou hast, that thou hatest the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
But I have this against thee, that thou didst leave thy first love.
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove 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 →
Even as it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.
I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →
I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →
For that which I do I know not: for not what I would, that do I practise; but what I hate, that I do.
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, lest his works should be reproved.
For many are called, but few chosen.
for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;
Let all that ye do be done in love.
Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →
And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.
If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before it hated you. — read the full passage →
Blessed are they that are perfect in the way, Who walk in the law of Jehovah. — read the full passage →
The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not I only, but also all they that know the truth; — read the full passage →
Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee With the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Or 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 men, — read the full passage →
If any man cometh unto me, and hateth not his own 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 one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
And this is love, that we should walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, even as ye heard from the beginning, that ye should walk in it.
So when they had broken their fast, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, 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 justice in the gate: it may be that Jehovah, the 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 thy hand to do it. — read the full passage →
Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated 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 it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and standeth 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 thereof.
And a second like unto it is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
that ye may be sons of your Father who is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust.
And all that dwell on the earth shall worship him, every one whose name hath not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that hath been slain.
And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him.
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some count slackness; but is longsuffering to you-ward, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:
But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:
But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
But God commendeth his own 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 forth from the Father.
Jehovah 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 Jehovah thy God, he is God, the faithful God, who keepeth covenant and lovingkindness with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
Who shall not fear, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy; for all the nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy righteous acts have been made manifest.
Herein was the love of God manifested in us, that God hath 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 the darkness even until now.
and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.
with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law.
No longer do I call you servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I heard from my Father I have made known unto you.
I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood; — read the full passage →
My son, if thou art become surety for thy neighbor, If thou hast stricken thy hands for a stranger; — read the full passage →
The arrogant shall not stand in thy sight: Thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
For this is the message which 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 children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
who saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up 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.
And he 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 Jehovah to Israel by Malachi. — read the full passage →
A friend loveth at all times; And a brother is born for adversity.
And the four living creatures, having each one of them six wings, are full of eyes round about and within: and they have no rest day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, isthe Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come.
But he that hateth his brother is in the darkness, and walketh in the darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because the darkness hath blinded his eyes.
Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren:
If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before it hated you.
For God sent not the Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world should be saved through him.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →
Jesus made answer and said, A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho; and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
On that day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side. — read the full passage →
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