Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. | Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law. |
And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” | He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” |
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But you, O Lord, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head. | But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head. |
Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us, even as we hope in you. | Let your loving kindness be on us, Yahweh, since we have hoped in you. |
We love because he first loved us. | We love him, because he first loved us. |
But you, O Lord, reign forever; your throne endures to all generations. | You, Yahweh, remain forever. Your throne is from generation to generation. |
When I thought, “My foot slips,” your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up. | When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up. |
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. | We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him. |
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 you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all men, even as we also do toward you. |
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. | Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. |
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. | There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love. |
Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord! O Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas for mercy! | Out of the depths I have cried to you, Yahweh. Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions. |
In you, O Lord, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame; in your righteousness deliver me! | In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed. Deliver me in your righteousness. |
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. | Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. |
I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds. | I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart. I will tell of all your marvelous works. |
As for you, O Lord, you will not restrain your mercy from me; your steadfast love and your faithfulness will ever preserve me! | Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me. |
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. | But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love. |
I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them. | I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them. |
No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. | No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us. |
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. | Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one. You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might. |
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, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen. |
Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity. | Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity. |
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. | Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. |
And 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.” | Jesus said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ |
May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ. | May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and into the perseverance of Christ. |