- And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
- Great peace have those who love your law;
nothing can make them stumble. - But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- For this very reason, you must make every effort to support your faith with goodness, and goodness with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with endurance, and endurance with godliness, and godliness with mutual affection, and mutual affection with love.
- For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
- The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.
- Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and never treat them harshly.
- For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline.
- But I say to you that listen, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.
- Like a city breached, without walls,
is one who lacks self-control. - By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.
- Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, in order to make her holy by cleansing her with the washing of water by the word.
- You shall not murder; You shall not commit adultery; You shall not steal; You shall not bear false witness; Honor your father and mother; also, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
- For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence, but through love become slaves to one another.
- Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have stripped off the old self with its practices and have clothed yourselves with the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of its creator.
- The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery; You shall not murder; You shall not steal; You shall not covet”; and any other commandment, are summed up in this word, “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
- Do not deprive one another except perhaps by agreement for a set time, to devote yourselves to prayer, and then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
- You shall not hate in your heart anyone of your kin; you shall reprove your neighbor, or you will incur guilt yourself. You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against any of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
- Athletes exercise self-control in all things; they do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable one.
- Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.
- 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.”
- Do not adorn yourselves outwardly by braiding your hair, and by wearing gold ornaments or fine clothing; rather, let your adornment be the inner self with the lasting beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in God's sight.
- Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law.
- Let your face shine upon your servant;
save me in your steadfast love. - So we do not lose heart. Even though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day.
We love because he first loved us.So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today's trouble is enough for today. Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be content with what you have; for he has said, “I will never leave you or forsake you.”Next verse!With image