| Let all that you do be done with love. | Everything that you do should be done in love. |
| And above all things have fervent love for one another, for “love will cover a multitude of sins.” | Above all, maintain the fervor of your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins. |
| A man who has friends must himself be friendly, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. | Some friends can lead us to ruin, but a true friend is 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 commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. |
| Hatred stirs up strife, But love covers all sins. | Hatred stirs up strife, but love overlooks all offenses. |
| Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. | Beloved, since God loved us so much, we should love one another. |
| This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. | This is my commandment: love one another as I have loved you. |
| And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ | The second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ |
| 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. | 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. |
| Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good. | Let your love be sincere. Loathe what is evil and hold fast to what is good. |
| But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God. | However, whoever lives by the truth comes to the light so that it may be clearly seen that his deeds have been done in God. |
| And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also. | This is the commandment we have received from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother. |
| Great peace have those who love Your law, And nothing causes them to stumble. | Those who love your law have great peace; they encounter no stumbling blocks. |
| Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. | No one can have greater love than to lay down his life for his friends. |
| And if you say in your heart, ‘How shall we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?’— when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him. | You might say to yourself, “How can we know that the Lord did not speak the message?” If what the prophet proclaims in the name of the Lord is not true and it does not happen, then the message was not proclaimed by the Lord. The prophet has spoken presumptuously, you should not fear him. |
| As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent. | I reprove and discipline all those whom I love. Therefore, be sincere in your desire to repent. |
| You are all fair, my love, And there is no spot in you. | You are all-beautiful, my love, without the slightest blemish. |
| By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another. | This is how everyone will know that you are my disciples: if you love one another. |
| My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. | Dear children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth. |
| Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another. | Love one another with genuine affection. Esteem others more highly than yourself. |
| With all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love. | With all humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another in a spirit of love. |
| For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. | For from the beginning you have heard the message that we should love one another. |
| But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. | Over all these put on love, which is the bond of perfection. |
| For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. | For God did not give us a spirit of timidity but rather a spirit of power and of love and of wisdom. |
| And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and to all, just as we do to you. | May the Lord cause your love to increase and overflow for one another and for everyone else, just as our love does for you. |
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