| Let no one despise your youth, but set the believers an example in speech and conduct, in love, in faith, in purity. | Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity. |
| Do not love the world or the things in the world. The love of the Father is not in those who love the world. | Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. |
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| So we have known and believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them. | And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. |
| We love because he first loved us. | We love because He first loved us. |
| You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. | Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. |
| 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 replied: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ |
| If you love me, you will keep my commandments. | If you love me, keep my commands. |
| For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all, training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions, and in the present age to live lives that are self-controlled, upright, and godly. | For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age. |
| There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not reached perfection in love. | There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. |
| 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. | To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices. |
| Let all that you do be done in love. | Do everything in love. |
| May mercy, peace, and love be yours in abundance. | Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance. |
| For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin. | For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin. |
| And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love. | And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. |
| No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us. | No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. |
| Above all, maintain constant love for one another, for love covers a multitude of sins. | Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. |
| 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. | Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. |
| Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. | Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. |
| I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. | A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. |
| Those who say, “I love God,” and hate their brothers or sisters, are liars; for those who do not love a brother or sister whom they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen. | Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. |
| Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us, even as we hope in you. | May your unfailing love be with us, Lord, even as we put our hope in you. |
| 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 Christ’s perseverance. |
| For your steadfast love is as high as the heavens; your faithfulness extends to the clouds. | For great is your love, reaching to the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the skies. |
| Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. | Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. |
| One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and one whose temper is controlled than one who captures a city. | Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one who takes a city. |
