He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love. | Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. |
Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore 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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We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains 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 has punishment. He who fears is not 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. |
Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t 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. |
May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. | May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. |
But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love. | So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. |
No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains 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. |
Let all that you do be done in love. | Let all that you do be done in love. |
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, 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 a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t 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. |
Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been 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. |
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers 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 remain in my love, even as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain 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 wrongs. | Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses. |
Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another. | Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. |
A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ | And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. |
This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. | This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. |
Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of 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 that which is evil. Cling to that which is good. | Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. |
This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother. | And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother. |
Those who love your law have great peace. 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, that someone lay down his life for his friends. | Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. |