Dear children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth. | Little children, let’s not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth. |
Love does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices in the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. | It does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; it keeps every confidence, it believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. |
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But I say to you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. | But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. |
Let your love be sincere. Loathe what is evil and hold fast to what is good. | Love must be free of hypocrisy. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good. |
Those who love your law have great peace; they encounter no stumbling blocks. | Those who love Your Law have great peace, And nothing causes them to stumble. |
This is how everyone will know that you are my disciples: if you love one another. | By this all people will know that you are My disciples: if you have love for one another. |
Love one another with genuine affection. Esteem others more highly than yourself. | Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor. |
For from the beginning you have heard the message that we should love one another. | For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we are to love one another. |
And ‘to love him with all your heart, and with all your understanding, and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself,’ is worth more than any burnt offerings and sacrifices. | 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 the burnt offerings and sacrifices. |
With all humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another in a spirit of love. | With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love. |
May the Lord guide your hearts to the love of God and the steadfastness of Christ. | May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the perseverance of Christ. |
Rather, professing truth and love, we will in all things grow into him who is the head, Christ. | But speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, that is, Christ. |
I reprove and discipline all those whom I love. Therefore, be sincere in your desire to repent. | Those whom I love, I rebuke and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent. |
For God did not give us a spirit of timidity but rather a spirit of power and of love and of wisdom. | For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline. |
For the entire Law can be summed up in a single commandment: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” | For the whole Law is fulfilled in one word, in the statement, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” |
The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these. | The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these. |
Finally, all of you should be united in spirit, sympathetic, filled with love for one another, compassionate, and humble. | To sum up, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, loving, compassionate, and humble. |
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. | The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. |
Jesus said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ | And He said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ |
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not treat them harshly. | Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not become bitter against them. |
We know that God makes all things work together for good for those who love him and who are called according to his purpose. | And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. |
If I give away everything to feed the poor and hand over my body to be burned, but do not have love, I achieve nothing. | And if I give away all my possessions to charity, and if I surrender my body so that I may glory, but do not have love, it does me no good. |
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. | And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. |
But as for you, man of God, you must shun all this. Rather, pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, fortitude, and gentleness. | But flee from these things, you man of God, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness. |
God’s love was revealed to us in this way: God sent his only-begotten Son into the world so that we might have life through him. | By this the love of God was revealed in us, that God has sent His only Son into the world so that we may live through Him. |