In love there is no fear; indeed, perfect love casts out fear, because fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not yet achieved perfection in love. | There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. |
May mercy, peace, and love be granted you in abundance. | May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. |
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Only goodness and kindness will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever and ever. | Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever. |
Thus there are three things that endure: faith, hope, and love, and the greatest of these is love. | So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. |
Your kindness is a greater joy than life itself; thus my lips will speak your praise. I will bless you all my life; with uplifted hands I will call on your name. | Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you. So I will bless you as long as I live; in your name I will lift up my hands. |
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; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. |
Be mindful, O Lord, that mercy and kindness have been yours from of old. Remember not the sins of my youth or my many transgressions, but remember me in your kindness, for the sake of your goodness, O Lord. | Remember your mercy, O Lord, and your steadfast love, for they have been from of old. Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love remember me, for the sake of your goodness, O Lord! |
I give you a new commandment: love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you should also love one another. | A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. |
Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. | Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever 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. | If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. |
Keep in mind, therefore, that the Lord, your God, is God. He is a faithful God who keeps his covenant of mercy to the thousandth generation toward those who love him and observe his commandments. | Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations. |
Above all, maintain the fervor of your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins. | Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. |
Everything that you do should be done in love. | Let all that you do be done 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 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 overlooks all offenses. | Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses. |
But I will sing of your strength; when morning dawns, I will proclaim your kindness. For you have been my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble. | But I will sing of your strength; I will sing aloud of your steadfast love in the morning. For you have been to me a fortress and a refuge in the day of my distress. |
This is my commandment: love one another as I have loved you. | This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. |
Beloved, since God loved us so much, we should love one another. | Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. |
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. And we saw his glory, the glory as of the Father’s only Son, full of grace and truth. | And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. |
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. |
Let your love be sincere. Loathe what is evil and hold fast to what is good. | Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast 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 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. |
Rend your hearts and not your garments, and turn back to the Lord, your God. For he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, rich in kindness, and always prepared to relent from punishing. | And rend your hearts and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster. |
No one can have greater love than to lay down his life for his friends. | Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. |
This is the commandment we have received from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother. | And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother. |