- The Lord is merciful and gracious,
Slow to anger, and abounding in mercy. - The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime,
And in the night His song shall be with me—
A prayer to the God of my life. - Because Your lovingkindness is better than life,
My lips shall praise You.
Thus I will bless You while I live;
I will lift up my hands in Your name. - You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him. You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
- But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.
- And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
- But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness.
- And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.
- If I say, “My foot slips,”
Your mercy, O Lord, will hold me up. - Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
- For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
- Let brotherly love continue. Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels.
- “For the mountains shall depart
And the hills be removed,
But My kindness shall not depart from you,
Nor shall My covenant of peace be removed,”
Says the Lord, who has mercy on you. - Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
- So he answered and said, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,’ and ‘your neighbor as yourself.’ ”
- For Your mercy reaches unto the heavens,
And Your truth unto the clouds. - Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
- Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
- If you love Me, keep My commandments.
- A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
- And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
- For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive,
And abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You. - In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.
- For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
- By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.
Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed,
Because His compassions fail not.
They are new every morning;
Great is Your faithfulness. For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen.Next verse!With image