- Hatred stirs up strife,
but love overlooks all offenses. - The end of all things is near. Therefore, lead disciplined lives and be watchful in prayer.
- Brethren, you were called to freedom. However, make sure that you do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Instead, serve one another in love.
- Let your face shine upon your servant;
save me in your kindness. - This is my commandment:
love one another
as I have loved you. - Beloved,
since God loved us so much,
we should love one another. - No one can have greater love
than to lay down his life for his friends. - This is the commandment
we have received from him:
whoever loves God
must also love his brother. - I have made your name known to them,
and I will make it known,
so that the love with which you loved me
may be in them, and I in them. - Dear children,
let us love not in word or speech
but in deed and truth. - This is how everyone will know
that you are my disciples:
if you love one another. - For the grace of God has appeared bringing salvation to the entire human race. It teaches us to reject godless ways and worldly desires, and in the present age to lead lives that are temperate, just, and godly.
- You are all-beautiful, my love,
without the slightest blemish. - Love one another with genuine affection. Esteem others more highly than yourself.
- Over all these put on love, which is the bond of perfection.
- Set me as a seal on your heart,
as a seal upon your arm.
For love is as strong as death,
and ardor is as relentless as the netherworld.
Its flames are flashes of fire,
an unending blaze. - With all humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another in a spirit of love.
- For from the beginning
you have heard the message
that we should love one another. - The Lord, your God, is in your midst,
a warrior and a savior.
He will rejoice over you with gladness
and renew you through his love.
He will exult over you with shouts of joy. - And so now, O Israel, what does the Lord, your God, require of you but to fear the Lord, your God, to walk in all of his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord, your God, with all your heart and all your soul, and to observe the commandments and the statutes that I am giving you today for your own good.
- For God would not be so unjust as to ignore your work and the love that you have shown for his name by the services you have rendered to the saints and still continue to render.
- Keep in mind, therefore, that the Lord, your God, is God. He is a faithful God who keeps his covenant of mercy to the thousandth generation toward those who love him and observe his commandments.
- Take heed to follow the commandments and the laws that Moses, the servant of the Lord, gave you: to love the Lord, your God, and to walk in his ways and to observe his commandments, holding fast to him and serving him with all your heart and all your soul.
- For where your treasure is, there will your heart also be.
- In the same way, husbands should love their wives as they do their own bodies. The man who loves his wife loves himself.
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