| When I said, “My foot is slipping,” your unfailing love, Lord, supported me. | If I should say, “My foot has slipped,” Your faithfulness, Lord, will support me. |
| But I tell 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. |
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| Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent. | Those whom I love, I rebuke and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent. |
| Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever. | Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; For His faithfulness is everlasting. |
| The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love. | The Lord is compassionate and gracious, Slow to anger and abounding in mercy. |
| May your unfailing love be with us, Lord, even as we put our hope in you. | Let Your favor, Lord, be upon us, Just as we have waited for You. |
| You, Lord, are forgiving and good, abounding in love to all who call to you. | For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, And abundant in mercy to all who call upon You. |
| What a person desires is unfailing love; better to be poor than a liar. | What is desirable in a person is his kindness, And it is better to be a poor person than a liar. |
| Whoever pursues righteousness and love finds life, prosperity and honor. | One who pursues righteousness and loyalty Finds life, righteousness, and honor. |
| Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. | Greater love has no one than this, that a person will lay down his life for his friends. |
| He answered, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ | And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” |
| By this 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. |
| Great peace have those who love your law, and nothing can make them stumble. | Those who love Your Law have great peace, And nothing causes them to stumble. |
| Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. | With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love. |
| For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. | For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we are to love one another. |
| Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. | Little children, let’s not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth. |
| Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments. | Know therefore that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps His covenant and His faithfulness to a thousand generations for those who love Him and keep His commandments. |
| May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance. | May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the perseverance of Christ. |
| And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.” | And behold, a voice from the heavens said, “This is My beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.” |
| To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all 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. |
| Remember, Lord, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old. Do not remember the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you, Lord, are good. | Remember, Lord, Your compassion and Your faithfulness, For they have been from of old. Do not remember the sins of my youth or my wrongdoings; Remember me according to Your faithfulness, For Your goodness’ sake, Lord. |
| For great is your love, reaching to the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the skies. | For Your goodness is great to the heavens And Your truth to the clouds. |
| The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit. | Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit. |
| Do not withhold your mercy from me, Lord; may your love and faithfulness always protect me. | You, Lord, will not withhold Your compassion from me; Your mercy and Your truth will continually watch over me. |
| And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. | In addition to all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity. |
