Unconditional Love

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

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

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.

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;

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

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;

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 →

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

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

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

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

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;

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; — read the full passage →

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

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

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

all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth.

The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good; — read the full passage →

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

and when the kindness and the love to men of God our Saviour did appear — read the full passage →

Hatred awaketh contentions, And over all transgressions love covereth.

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

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

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;

and the hope doth not make ashamed, because the love of God hath been poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that hath been given to us.

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

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

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

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

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.'

`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 →

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 →

let all your things be done in love.

Jehovah thy God <FI>is<Fi> in thy midst, A mighty one doth save, He rejoiceth over thee with joy, He doth work in His love, He joyeth over thee with singing.'

Forget doth a woman her suckling, The loved one--the son of her womb? Yea, these forget--but I--I forget not thee. — 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; — read the full passage →

but in all these we more than conquer, through him who loved us; — 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.'

And I, as a green olive in the house of God, I have trusted in the kindness of God, To the age and for ever,

According as the Father did love me, I also loved you, remain in my love;

And the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned,

Whoso is sparing his rod is hating his son, And whoso is loving him hath hastened him chastisement.

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.

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;

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; — 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 walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;

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

If, then, any exhortation <FI>is<Fi> in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

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

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

for I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, — read the full passage →

Who shall separate us from the love of the Christ? tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? — read the full passage →

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;

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

I in them, and Thou in me, that they may be perfected into one, and that the world may know that Thou didst send me, and didst love them as Thou didst love me.

`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 whoever may keep his word, truly in him the love of God hath been perfected; in this we know that in him we are.

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;

`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,

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

in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins. — read the full passage →

for I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present,

of whom the whole family in the heavens and on earth is named, — read the full passage →

and God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us,

Many waters are not able to quench the love, And floods do not wash it away. If one give all the wealth of his house for love, Treading down--they tread upon it.

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;

O Jehovah, in the heavens <FI>is<Fi> Thy kindness, Thy faithfulness <FI>is<Fi> unto the clouds. — read the full passage →

to the praise of the glory of His grace, in which He did make us accepted in the beloved,

among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath--as also the others,

`And because that He hath loved thy fathers, He doth also fix on their seed after them, and doth bring thee out, in His presence, by His great power, from Egypt:

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

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

Set me as a seal on thy heart, as a seal on thine arm, For strong as death is love, Sharp as Sheol is jealousy, Its burnings <FI>are<Fi> burnings of fire, a flame of Jah!

willing to be teachers of law, not understanding either the things they say, nor concerning what they asseverate,

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, — 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.

`Not because of your being more numerous than any of the peoples hath Jehovah delighted in you, and fixeth on you, for ye <FI>are<Fi> the least of all the peoples, — read the full passage →

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 →

Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

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

`These things I command you, that ye love one another;

he who is believing in the Son, hath life age-during; and he who is not believing the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God doth remain upon him.'

having stripped the principalities and the authorities, he made a shew of them openly--having triumphed over them in it.

A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack, — 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,

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; — read the full passage →

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

and doing kindness to thousands, of those loving Me and keeping My commands.

but in all these we more than conquer, through him who loved us;

the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, <FI>is<Fi> with you all! Amen.

in this we know that we love the children of God, when we may love God, and His commands may keep;

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

And there was one of his disciples reclining (at meat) in the bosom of Jesus, whom Jesus was loving;

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born out of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth; to him who did love us, and did bathe us from our sins in his blood,

How wonderful have been thy loves, my sister-spouse, How much better have been thy loves than wine, And the fragrance of thy perfumes than all spices.

`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.