| Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good. | Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. |
| And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also. | And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister. |
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| Great peace have those who love Your law, And nothing causes them to stumble. | Great peace have those who love your law, and nothing can make them stumble. |
| Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. | Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. |
| As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent. | Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent. |
| You are all fair, my love, And there is no spot in you. | You are altogether beautiful, my darling; there is no flaw in you. |
| By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another. | By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. |
| My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. | Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. |
| Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another. | Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. |
| With all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love. | Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. |
| For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. | For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. |
| But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. | And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. |
| For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. | For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline. |
| And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and to all, just as we do to you. | May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you. |
| So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. | In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. |
| And to love Him with all the heart, with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, is more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. | To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices. |
| Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law. | Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. |
| For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” | For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” |
| Now may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ. | May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance. |
| But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you. | But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. |
| But, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ. | Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. |
| Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit. | The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit. |
| Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.” | Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.” |
| He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him. | Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them. |
| And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these. | The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these. |
