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. |
When I thought, “My foot is slipping,” your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up. | If I should say, “My foot has slipped,” Your faithfulness, Lord, will support me. |
Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble. | Those who love Your Law have great peace, And nothing causes them to stumble. |
No one has greater love 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. |
Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action. | Little children, let’s not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth. |
Love one another with mutual affection; outdo one another in showing honor. | Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor. |
I reprove and discipline those whom I love. Be earnest, therefore, and repent. | Those whom I love, I rebuke and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent. |
The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. | The Lord is compassionate and gracious, Slow to anger and abounding in mercy. |
With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love. | With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love. |
By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. | By this all people will know that you are My disciples: if you have love for one another. |
And steadfast love belongs to you, O Lord. For you repay to all according to their work. | And faithfulness is Yours, Lord, For You reward a person according to his work. |
O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever. | Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; For His faithfulness is everlasting. |
For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call on you. | For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, And abundant in mercy to all who call upon You. |
For your steadfast love is as high as the heavens; your faithfulness extends to the clouds. | For Your goodness is great to the heavens And Your truth to the clouds. |
For this is the message you have heard from the beginning, 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. |
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 those who love it will eat its fruit. |
Truly 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 on those who fear Him, On those who wait for His faithfulness. |
Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. | In addition to all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity. |
Each of you, however, should love his wife as himself, and a wife should respect her husband. | Nevertheless, as for you individually, each husband is to love his own wife the same as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband. |
May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ. | May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the perseverance of Christ. |
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,’—this is much more important than all whole 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. |
For the whole law is 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.” |
But speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ. | But speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, that is, Christ. |
Finally, all of you, have unity of spirit, sympathy, love for one another, a tender heart, and a humble mind. | To sum up, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, loving, compassionate, and humble. |
We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us—and we ought to lay down our lives for one another. | We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers and sisters. |
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