With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love. | With all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love. |
Jesus answered him, “Those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.” | Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.” |
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For this is the message you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. | For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. |
Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. | But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. |
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. | And to love Him with all the heart, with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, is more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. |
For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline. | For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. |
For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” | For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” |
May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ. | Now may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ. |
Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. | Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law. |
In the same way, husbands should love their wives as they do their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. | So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. |
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits. | Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit. |
But speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ. | But, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ. |
Then Peter began to speak to them: “I truly understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.” | Then Peter opened his mouth and said: “In truth I perceive that God shows no partiality. But in every nation whoever fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by Him.” |
Each of you, however, should love his wife as himself, and a wife should respect her husband. | Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. |
The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these. | And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these. |
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 said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ |
In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. | In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. |
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains. | For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. |
But as for you, man of God, shun all this; pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, gentleness. | But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness. |
Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us, even as we hope in you. | Let Your mercy, O Lord, be upon us, Just as we hope in You. |
We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us—and we ought to lay down our lives for one another. | By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. |
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with all of you. | The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen. |
Let your face shine upon your servant; save me in your steadfast love. | Make Your face shine upon Your servant; Save me for Your mercies’ sake. |
A friend loves at all times, and kinsfolk are born to share adversity. | A friend loves at all times, And a brother is born for adversity. |
Finally, all of you, have unity of spirit, sympathy, love for one another, a tender heart, and a humble mind. | Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous. |