All that you do must be done in love. | Everything that you do should be done in love. |
Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins. | Above all, maintain the fervor of your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins. |
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Beloved, let’s love one another; for love is from 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. |
I am giving you a new commandment, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, that you also love one another. | I give you a new commandment: love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you should also love one another. |
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, exalt, and honor the King of heaven, for all His works are true and His ways just; and He is able to humble those who walk in pride. | Therefore, now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven. For all of his works are right, and all of his ways are just. Also, he is able to humble all those who follow the path of pride. |
If someone says, “I love God,” and yet he hates his brother or sister, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother and sister whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. | If someone says, “I love God,” but at the same time hates his brother, he is a liar. For whoever does not love the brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. |
If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love. | If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. |
Hatred stirs up strife, But love covers all offenses. | Hatred stirs up strife, but love overlooks all offenses. |
A person of too many friends comes to ruin, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. | Some friends can lead us to ruin, but a true friend is closer than a brother. |
For His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. | His divine power has bestowed on us everything that is necessary for life and for devotion through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue. |
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. | Beloved, since God loved us so much, we should love one another. |
The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ | The second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ |
This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. | This is my commandment: love one another as I have loved you. |
Love must be free of hypocrisy. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good. | Let your love be sincere. Loathe what is evil and hold fast to what is good. |
Love is patient, love is kind, it is not jealous; love does not brag, it is not arrogant. It does not act disgracefully, it does not seek its own benefit; it is not provoked, does not keep an account of a wrong suffered. | Love is patient; love is charitable. Love is not envious; it does not have an inflated opinion of itself; it is not filled with its own importance. Love is never rude; it does not seek its own advantage. It is not prone to anger; neither does it brood over setbacks. |
Those who love Your Law have great peace, And nothing causes them to stumble. | Those who love your law have great peace; they encounter no stumbling blocks. |
And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God must also love his brother and sister. | This is the commandment we have received from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother. |
Greater love has no one than this, that a person will lay down his life for his friends. | No one can have greater love than to lay down his life for his friends. |
Those whom I love, I rebuke and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent. | I reprove and discipline all those whom I love. Therefore, be sincere in your desire to repent. |
Little children, let’s not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth. | Dear children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth. |
But the one who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds will be revealed as having been performed in God. | However, whoever lives by the truth comes to the light so that it may be clearly seen that his deeds have been done in God. |
By this all people will know that you are My disciples: if you have love for one another. | This is how everyone will know that you are my disciples: if you love one another. |
Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor. | Love one another with genuine affection. Esteem others more highly than yourself. |
But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. | But I say to you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. |
Do not lie to one another, since you stripped off the old self with its evil practices, and have put on the new self, which is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created it. | Do not lie to one another, since you have stripped off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self that is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. |