| Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. | Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. |
| And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins. | Above all, maintain constant love for one another, for love covers a multitude of sins. |
| A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. | Some friends play at friendship but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. |
| If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, even as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. | 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. |
| Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs. | Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses. |
| Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another. | Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another. |
| A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ | And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ |
| This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. | This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. |
| Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil. | 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. |
| Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good. | Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good. |
| But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God. | But those who do what is true come to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God. |
| This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother. | The commandment we have from him is this: those who love God must love their brothers and sisters also. |
| Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble. | Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble. |
| You may say in your heart, “How shall we know the word which Yahweh has not spoken?” When a prophet speaks in Yahweh’s name, if the thing doesn’t follow, nor happen, that is the thing which Yahweh has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You shall not be afraid of him. | You may say to yourself, “How can we recognize a word that the Lord has not spoken?” If a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord but the thing does not take place or prove true, it is a word that the Lord has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously; do not be frightened by it. |
| Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. | No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends. |
| As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent. | I reprove and discipline those whom I love. Be earnest, therefore, and repent. |
| You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you. | You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you. |
| By this everyone 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 have love for one another. |
| My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth. | Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action. |
| In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor prefer one another. | Love one another with mutual affection; outdo one another in showing honor. |
| With all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love. | With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love. |
| Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection. | Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. |
| For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control. | For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline. |
| For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, 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 the heart, with all the understanding, all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is 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,’—this is much more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. |
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