Love And Hate

but I--I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those cursing you, do good to those hating you, and pray for those accusing you falsely, and persecuting you,

`But I say to you who are hearing, Love your enemies, do good to those hating you,

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

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 →

Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

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!

Ye who love Jehovah, hate evil, He is keeping the souls of His saints, From the hand of the wicked he delivereth them.

`Thou dost not hate thy brother in thy heart; thou dost certainly reprove thy fellow, and not suffer sin on him.

`If ye love me, my commands keep,

The fear of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a froward mouth, I have hated.

`Ye did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and did appoint you, that ye might go away, and might bear fruit, and your fruit might remain, that whatever ye may ask of the Father in my name, He may give you.

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

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

`Ye heard that it was said: Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and shalt hate thine enemy;

we have known that of God we are, and the whole world in the evil doth lie;

Whoso is despising his neighbour lacketh heart, And a man of understanding keepeth silence.

`Thou dost not take vengeance, nor watch the sons of thy people; and thou hast had love to thy neighbour as thyself; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.

`I ask in regard to them; not in regard to the world do I ask, but in regard to those whom Thou hast given to me, because Thine they are,

Hatred awaketh contentions, And over all transgressions love covereth.

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?

because to you it was granted, on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also on behalf of him to suffer;

Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow--that also he shall reap,

now is a judgment of this world, now shall the ruler of this world be cast forth;

he who is loving his life shall lose it, and he who is hating his life in this world--to life age-during shall keep it;

`And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;

but this thou hast, that thou dost hate the works of the Nicolaitans, that I also hate.

`But I have against thee: That thy first love thou didst leave!

Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world; — read the full passage →

Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: — read the full passage →

according as it hath been written, `Jacob I did love, and Esau I did hate.'

Truth I say in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing testimony with me in the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

Truth I say in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing testimony with me in the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

for that which I work, I do not acknowledge; for not what I will, this I practise, but what I hate, this I do.

for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected;

for many are called, and few chosen.'

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift,

let all your things be done in love.

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

if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you; — read the full passage →

<FI> Aleph.<Fi> O the happiness of those perfect in the way, They are walking in the law of Jehovah, — read the full passage →

The Elder to the choice Kyria, and to her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those having known the truth, — read the full passage →

thou didst love righteousness, and didst hate lawlessness; because of this did He anoint thee--God, thy God--with oil of gladness above thy partners;'

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, — read the full passage →

`If any one doth come unto me, and doth not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple;

`None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.

and this is the love, that we may walk according to His commands; this is the command, even as ye did hear from the beginning, that in it ye may walk,

When, therefore, they dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, `Simon, <FI>son<Fi> of Jonas, dost thou love me more than these?' he saith to him, `Yes, Lord; thou hast known that I dearly love thee;' he saith to him, `Feed my lambs.' — read the full passage →

`He who is loving father or mother above me, is not worthy of me, and he who is loving son or daughter above me, is not worthy of me,

Hate evil, and love good, And set up judgment in the gate, It may be Jehovah, God of Hosts, doth pity the remnant of Joseph.

Withhold not good from its owners, When thy hand <FI>is<Fi> toward God to do <FI>it<Fi> . — read the full passage →

Thou hast loved righteousness and hatest wickedness, Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee, Oil of joy above thy companions.

Every one who is hating his brother--a man-killer he is, and ye have known that no man-killer hath life age-during in him remaining,

for whom the Lord doth love He doth chasten, and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth;'

`Ye are of a father--the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar--also his father.

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

that ye may be sons of your Father in the heavens, because His sun He doth cause to rise on evil and good, and He doth send rain on righteous and unrighteous.

And bow before it shall all who are dwelling upon the land, whose names have not been written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world;

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.

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;

the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,

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

and ye <FI>are<Fi> a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;

according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,

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

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

for the Father himself doth love you, because me ye have loved, and ye have believed that I from God came forth;

From afar Jehovah hath appeared to me, With love age-during I have loved thee, Therefore I have drawn thee <FI>with<Fi> kindness.

`And thou hast known that Jehovah thy God He <FI>is<Fi> God, the faithful God, keeping the covenant, and the kindness, to those loving Him, and to those keeping His commands--to a thousand generations,

who may not fear Thee, O Lord, and glorify Thy name? because Thou alone <FI>art<Fi> kind, because all the nations shall come and bow before Thee, because Thy righteous acts were manifested.'

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;

he who is saying, in the light he is, and his brother is hating, in the darkness he is till now;

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

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

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;

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

no more do I call you servants, because the servant hath not known what his lord doth, and you I have called friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I did make known to you.

I have hated--I have loathed your festivals, And I am not refreshed by your restraints.

Eyes high--tongues false--And hands shedding innocent blood-- — read the full passage →

My son! if thou hast been surety for thy friend, Hast stricken for a stranger thy hand, — read the full passage →

The boastful station not themselves before Thine eyes: Thou hast hated all working iniquity.

because this is the message that ye did hear from the beginning, that we may love one another, — read the full passage →

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 did save us, and did call with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, that was given to us in Christ Jesus, before the times of the ages,

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

And a certain man, Ananias by name, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, — read the full passage →

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

And Jesus said to him, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding-- — read the full passage →

The burden of a word of Jehovah unto Israel by the hand of Malachi: — read the full passage →

At all times is the friend loving, And a brother for adversity is born.

And the four living creatures, each by itself severally, had six wings, around and within <FI>are<Fi> full of eyes, and rest they have not day and night, saying, `Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, and who is, and who is coming;'

and he who is hating his brother, in the darkness he is, and in the darkness he doth walk, and he hath not known whither he doth go, because the darkness did blind his eyes.

to all give ye honour; the brotherhood love ye; God fear ye; the king honour ye.

because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren;

if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you;

For God did not send His Son to the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him;

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 Jesus having taken up <FI>the word<Fi> , said, `A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, and having stripped him and inflicted blows, they went away, leaving <FI>him<Fi> half dead.

And in that day Jesus, having gone forth from the house, was sitting by the sea, — read the full passage →