Love is patient; love is charitable. Love is not envious; it does not have an inflated opinion of itself; it is not filled with its own importance. Love is never rude; it does not seek its own advantage. It is not prone to anger; neither does it brood over setbacks. | Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil. |
May the Lord cause your love to increase and overflow for one another and for everyone else, just as our love does for you. | And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and to all, just as we do to you. |
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Over all these put on love, which is the bond of perfection. | But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. |
The second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ | And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ |
You are all-beautiful, my love, without the slightest blemish. | You are all fair, my love, And there is no spot in you. |
No one can have greater love than to lay down his life for his friends. | Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. |
Dear children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth. | My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in 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. | Does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. |
But I say to you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. | But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you. |
Let your love be sincere. Loathe what is evil and hold fast to what is good. | Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good. |
Those who love your law have great peace; they encounter no stumbling blocks. | Great peace have those who love Your law, 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 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 kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another. |
For from the beginning you have heard the message that we should love one another. | For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should 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, with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, is more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. |
With all humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another in a spirit of love. | With all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love. |
May the Lord guide your hearts to the love of God and the steadfastness of Christ. | Now may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patience 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, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ. |
I reprove and discipline all those whom I love. Therefore, be sincere in your desire to repent. | As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. 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 fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. |
For the entire Law can be summed up in a single commandment: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” | For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: “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. | And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these. |
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 communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen. |
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.’ | Jesus said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, 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, submit to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter toward them. |