Romance

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 →

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with <FI>them<Fi> , according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel--to the wife--imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

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

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

let all your things be done in love.

Be not overcome by the evil, but overcome, in the good, the evil.

John answered and said, `A man is not able to receive anything, if it may not have been given him from the heaven;

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,

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 →

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

And the Pharisees came near to him, tempting him, and saying to him, `Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?' — read the full passage →

so that they are no more two, but one flesh; what therefore God did join together, let no man put asunder.'

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

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

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord; — 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.

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

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

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

be humbled, then, under the powerful hand of God, that you He may exalt in good time, — read the full passage →

So then, my brethren, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand ye in the Lord, beloved. — read the full passage →

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

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

`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.

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

Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;

he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.'

`If ye love me, my commands keep,

`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 →

and as ye wish that men may do to you, do ye also to them in like manner;

`Verily I say to you, Whatever things ye may bind upon the earth shall be having been bound in the heavens, and whatever things ye may loose on the earth shall be having been loosed in the heavens. — read the full passage →

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;

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;

Let no one say, being tempted--`From God I am tempted,' for God is not tempted of evil, and Himself doth tempt no one,

not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as servants of the Christ, doing the will of God out of soul,

but, according as it hath been written, `What eye did not see, and ear did not hear, and upon the heart of man came not up, what God did prepare for those loving Him--'

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;

Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,

all things prove; that which is good hold fast;

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

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,

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;

but in all these we more than conquer, through him who loved us; — read the full passage →

and if what we do not behold we hope for, through continuance we expect <FI>it<Fi> . — read the full passage →

and whatever we may ask, we receive from Him, because His commands we keep, and the things pleasing before Him we do, — read the full passage →

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

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;

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

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

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

According as the Father did love me, I also loved you, remain in my love; — read the full passage →

and Jesus answered him--`The first of all the commands <FI>is<Fi> , Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is one; — read the full passage →

`Teacher, which <FI>is<Fi> the great command in the Law?' — read the full passage →

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

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

that the Christ may dwell through the faith in your hearts, in love having been rooted and founded, — read the full passage →

for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died,

`And if thy brother may sin against thee, go and show him his fault between thee and him alone, if he may hear thee, thou didst gain thy brother;

`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,

`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.

`Ye heard that it was said: Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and shalt hate thine enemy; — read the full passage →