| Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble. | Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them. |
| But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. | But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you. |
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| Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. | My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. |
| I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing. | I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. |
| For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control. | For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. |
| Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. | Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another. |
| The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. | The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. |
| Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. | Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. |
| For your steadfast love is great to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds. | For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds. |
| With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love. | With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love. |
| Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. | And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. |
| What is desired in a man is steadfast love, and a poor man is better than a liar. | The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar. |
| Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations. | Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations. |
| For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” | For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. |
| By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. | By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. |
| And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. | And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. |
| Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever! | O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever. |
| And to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. | And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. |
| For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you. | For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee. |
| Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends. | He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends. |
| Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits. | Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. |
| Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his steadfast love. | Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy. |
| May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ. | And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ. |
| Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind. | Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous. |
| For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. | For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. |
