| Let all that you do be done in love. | Do everything in love. |
| Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. | Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. |
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| A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. | A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. |
| A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. | One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. |
| If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. | If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. |
| Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses. | Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs. |
| Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. | Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. |
| Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. | Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. |
| This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. | My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. |
| Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. | Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. |
| And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. | And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ |
| Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful. | Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. |
| And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother. | And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister. |
| Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble. | Great peace have those who love your law, and nothing can make them stumble. |
| Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. | Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. |
| Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent. | Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent. |
| Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. | Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. |
| Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. | Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. |
| You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you. | You are altogether beautiful, my darling; there is no flaw in you. |
| By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. | By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. |
| But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. | But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. |
| With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love. | Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. |
| For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control. | For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline. |
| For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. | For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. |
| And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you. | May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you. |
