| No one has ever seen God, but if we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is made complete 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. |
| I give you a new commandment: love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you should also love one another. | A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. |
| 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. |
| 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. | 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. |
| Above all, maintain the fervor of your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins. | Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. |
| You intended to do evil to me, but God decided to make it serve a good, to fulfill that which today has come true: to keep alive a numerous people. | You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives. |
| Everything that you do should be done in love. | Do everything in 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. | If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. |
| Hatred stirs up strife, but love overlooks all offenses. | Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs. |
| This is my commandment: love one another as I have loved you. | My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. |
| Beloved, since God loved us so much, we should love one another. | Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. |
| The second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ | And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ |
| Let your love be sincere. Loathe what is evil and hold fast to what is good. | Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. |
| 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. | 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. |
| 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. | But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God. |
| No one can have greater love than to lay down his life for his friends. | Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. |
| This is the commandment we have received from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother. | And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister. |
| Those who love your law have great peace; they encounter no stumbling blocks. | Great peace have those who love your law, and nothing can make them stumble. |
| Dear children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth. | Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. |
| May the Lord cause your love to increase and overflow for one another and for everyone else, just as our love does for you. | May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you. |
| This is how everyone will know that you are my disciples: if you love one another. | By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. |
| You are all-beautiful, my love, without the slightest blemish. | You are altogether beautiful, my darling; there is no flaw in you. |
| Love one another with genuine affection. Esteem others more highly than yourself. | Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. |
| I reprove and discipline all those whom I love. Therefore, be sincere in your desire to repent. | Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent. |
| Over all these put on love, which is the bond of perfection. | And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. |
Bible verse of the day
A fool spurns his father’s correction,but whoever heeds admonition is prudent.