Self Love

for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord--the assembly,

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times, — read the full passage →

I confess Thee, because that <FI>with<Fi> wonders I have been distinguished. Wonderful <FI>are<Fi> Thy works, And my soul is knowing <FI>it<Fi> well.

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 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 →

and the second <FI>is<Fi> like <FI>it<Fi> , this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; --greater than these there is no other command.'

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves--

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

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

The grace <FI>is<Fi> false, and the beauty <FI>is<Fi> vain, A woman fearing Jehovah, she may boast herself.

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.

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

Above every charge keep thy heart, For out of it <FI>are<Fi> the outgoings of life.

but even the hairs of your head have been all numbered; therefore fear ye not, than many sparrows ye are of more value.

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 →

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

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;

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

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

we--we love him, because He--He first loved us; — read the full passage →

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;

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times, — read the full passage →

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

`I am not able of myself to do anything; according as I hear I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father who sent me.

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

For Thou--Thou hast possessed my reins, Thou dost cover me in my mother's belly. — read the full passage →

Be not afraid, for with thee I <FI>am<Fi> , Look not around, for I <FI>am<Fi> thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.

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

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.

And the Spirit expressly speaketh, that in latter times shall certain fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons,

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 →

Then said Jesus to his disciples, `If any one doth will to come after me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross, and follow me, — read the full passage →

Hatred awaketh contentions, And over all transgressions love covereth.

For we do not make bold to rank or to compare ourselves with certain of those commending themselves, but they, among themselves measuring themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not wise,

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

And God saith, `Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.'

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

`Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest, — read the full passage →

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

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

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

so that if any one <FI>is<Fi> in Christ--<FI> he is<Fi> a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.

for men shall be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, evil-speakers, to parents disobedient, unthankful, unkind,

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think above what it behoveth to think; but to think so as to think wisely, as to each God did deal a measure of faith,

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

Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering,

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

for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

and thou shalt love the Lord thy God out of all thy heart, and out of thy soul, and out of all thine understanding, and out of all thy strength--this <FI>is<Fi> the first command;

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.

let us not become vain-glorious--one another provoking, one another envying!

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God--

For I have known the thoughts that I am thinking towards you--an affirmation of Jehovah; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give to you posterity and hope.

Lo, in iniquity I have been brought forth, And in sin doth my mother conceive me.

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;

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

and He said to me, `Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me: — read the full passage →

for the sorrow toward God reformation to salvation not to be repented of doth work, and the sorrow of the world doth work death,

and we all, with unvailed face, the glory of the Lord beholding in a mirror, to the same image are being transformed, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

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,

but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the flesh take no forethought--for desires.

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

Since thou wast precious in Mine eyes, Thou wast honoured, and I have loved thee, And I appoint men in thy stead, And peoples instead of thy life.

To the Overseer. --A Psalm by David. Jehovah, Thou hast searched me, and knowest. — read the full passage →

having known that, not with corruptible things--silver or gold--were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers, — read the full passage →

stedfast <FI>is<Fi> the word, and of all acceptation worthy, that Christ Jesus came to the world to save sinners--first of whom I am;

and by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace that <FI>is<Fi> towards me came not in vain, but more abundantly than they all did I labour, yet not I, but the grace of God that <FI>is<Fi> with me;

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 →

on these--the two commands--all the law and the prophets do hang.'

Let not kindness and truth forsake thee, Bind them on thy neck, Write them on the tablet of thy heart, — read the full passage →

Beloved, I call upon <FI>you<Fi> , as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,

looking diligently over lest any one be failing of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up may give trouble, and through this many may be defiled;

we may come near, then, with freedom, to the throne of the grace, that we may receive kindness, and find grace--for seasonable help.

brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing--the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth-- — read the full passage →

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

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 if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;

and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness--indignation and wrath,

`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 →

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

Cause me to hear in the morning Thy kindness, For in Thee I have trusted, Cause me to know the way that I go, For unto Thee I have lifted up my soul.

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?

God no one hath ever seen; if we may love one another, God in us doth remain, and His love is having been perfected in us;

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;

If, indeed, royal law ye complete, according to the Writing, `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,' --ye do well;

having been confident of this very thing, that He who did begin in you a good work, will perform <FI>it<Fi> till a day of Jesus Christ,

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

for if any one doth think <FI>himself<Fi> to be something--being nothing--himself he doth deceive;

`because the letters indeed--saith one--<FI> are<Fi> weighty and strong, and the bodily presence weak, and the speech despicable.'

And concerning the spiritual things, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant; — read the full passage →

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;

`But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward will be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest, because He is kind unto the ungracious and evil;

And we are as unclean--all of us, And as a garment passing away, all our righteous acts; And we fade as a leaf--all of us. And our iniquities as wind do take us away.

and his own work let each one prove, and then in regard to himself alone the glorying he shall have, and not in regard to the other,

What, then, shall we say? shall we continue in the sin that the grace may abound? — read the full passage →

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

and to me it is for a very little thing that by you I may be judged, or by man's day, but not even myself do I judge, — read the full passage →

To the Overseer, `On the Gittith.' A Psalm of David. Jehovah, our Lord, How honourable Thy name in all the earth! Who settest thine honour on the heavens. — read the full passage →