He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. | Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. |
Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. | Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. |
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And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him. | So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. |
If you love Me, keep My commandments. | If you love me, you will keep my commandments. |
We love Him because He first loved us. | We love because he first loved us. |
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. | There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. |
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. | 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. |
Mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. | May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. |
And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. | So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. |
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. | Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. |
No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us. | No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. |
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. | A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. |
If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? | If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. |
Let all that you do be done with love. | Let all that you do be done in love. |
And above all things have fervent love for one another, for “love will cover a multitude of sins.” | Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. |
If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. | If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. |
Hatred stirs up strife, But love covers all sins. | Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses. |
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. | Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. |
This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. | This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. |
And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ | And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. |
Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil. | Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful. |
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good. | Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. |
And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also. | And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother. |
Great peace have those who love Your law, And nothing causes them to stumble. | Great peace have those who love your law; 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, that someone lay down his life for his friends. |