- And to love him with all the heart, with all the understanding, all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
- One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.
- But many will be last who are first, and first who are last.
- A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
- A man’s gift makes room for him,
and brings him before great men. - And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
- The second is like this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.
- Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither is one who is sent greater than he who sent him.
- For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision amounts to anything, but faith working through love.
- But “he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.” For it isn’t he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.
- God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that don’t exist, that he might bring to nothing the things that exist, that no flesh should boast before God.
- For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures.
May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all men, even as we also do toward you. But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.Next verse!With image