| 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 is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful. |
| 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 for one another and for all, just as we abound in love for you. |
| Over all these put on love, which is the bond of perfection. | Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. |
| The second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ | And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ |
| You are all-beautiful, my love, without the slightest blemish. | You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you. |
| No one can have greater love than to lay down his life for his friends. | No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends. |
| Dear children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth. | Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action. |
| 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 wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It 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 and pray for those who persecute you. |
| Let your love be sincere. Loathe what is evil and hold fast to what is good. | Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast 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; nothing can make them stumble. |
| This is how everyone will know that you are my disciples: if you love one another. | By this everyone 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. | Love one another with mutual affection; outdo one another in showing honor. |
| For from the beginning you have heard the message that we should love one another. | For this is the message you have 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, 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. |
| 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 steadfastness 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 must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ. |
| I reprove and discipline all those whom I love. Therefore, be sincere in your desire to repent. | I reprove and discipline those whom I love. Be earnest, therefore, 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 did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-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 summed up in a single commandment, “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. |
| 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, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with all of you. |
| 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.’ | 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 never treat them harshly. |
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Bible verse of the day
See what lovethe Father has bestowed on us,
enabling us to be called the children of God,
and that is what we are.
If the world does not recognize us,
that is because it did not know him.