Let all that you do be done with love. | Let all that you do be done in love. |
And above all things have fervent love for one another, for “love will cover a multitude of sins.” | Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. |
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A man who has friends must himself be friendly, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. | A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. |
If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. | If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. |
Hatred stirs up strife, But love covers all sins. | Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses. |
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. | Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. |
This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. | This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. |
And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ | And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. |
Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil. | Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful. |
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good. | Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. |
But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God. | But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God. |
And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also. | And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother. |
Great peace have those who love Your law, And nothing causes them to stumble. | Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble. |
Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. | Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. |
And if you say in your heart, ‘How shall we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?’— when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him. | And if you say in your heart, ‘How may we know the word that the Lord has not spoken?’— when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him. |
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent. | Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent. |
You are all fair, my love, And there is no spot in you. | You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you. |
By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another. | By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. |
My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. | Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. |
Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another. | Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. |
With all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love. | With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love. |
For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. | For this is the message that you have 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 put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. |
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. | For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control. |
And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and to all, just as we do to you. | And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you. |