| Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good. | Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. |
| This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. | This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. |
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| And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also. | And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also. |
| For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. | For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. |
| As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent. | As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. |
| And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them. | And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them. |
| Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. | Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. |
| For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. | For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. |
| By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another. | By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. |
| You are all fair, my love, And there is no spot in you. | Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee. |
| For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age. | For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world. |
| My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. | My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. |
| Set me as a seal upon your heart, As a seal upon your arm; For love is as strong as death, Jealousy as cruel as the grave; Its flames are flames of fire, A most vehement flame. | Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. |
| For God is not unjust to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister. | For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. |
| With all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love. | With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love. |
| The Lord your God in your midst, The Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing. | The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing. |
| And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and to all, just as we do to you. | And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you. |
| Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another. | Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another. |
| He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God? | He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? |
| For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. | For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. |
| But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. | And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. |
| Do not let your adornment be merely outward—arranging the hair, wearing gold, or putting on fine apparel— rather let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God. | Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. |
| Therefore know that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments. | Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations. |
| And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the commandments of the Lord and His statutes which I command you today for your good? | And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, To keep the commandments of the Lord, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good? |
| Whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of your souls. | Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. |
