| We love because He first loved us. | We love because he first loved us. |
| Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but whoever hates correction is stupid. | Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid. |
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| Pride brings a person low, but the lowly in spirit gain honor. | One's pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor. |
| All my longings lie open before you, Lord; my sighing is not hidden from you. | O Lord, all my longing is before you; my sighing is not hidden from you. |
| 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. | Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him. |
| This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. | In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. |
| In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. | In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. |
| Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it. | Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. |
| My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. | This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. |
| For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it. | For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. |
| For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. | For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. |
| Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life. | Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life. |
| But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” | But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.” |
| Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. This too is meaningless. | He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity. |
| Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children. | Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. |
| For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it. | For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it. |
| Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. | Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. |
| The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it. | The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein. |
| My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline, and do not resent his rebuke, because the Lord disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in. | My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline or be weary of his reproof, for the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights. |
| I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. | I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. |
| For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost. | For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost. |
| Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always. | Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually! |
| Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails. | Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand. |
| The Lord loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of his unfailing love. | He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the Lord. |
| For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace. | For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace. |
