You have heard that it was said: You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy. But I say to you, Love your enemies: bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who insult you and persecute you: read more. that you may be the sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun to rise upon the evil and the good, and causes it to rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the publicans the same? And if you salute your brethren only, in what do you excel? Do not even the publicans so? Be you therefore perfect, as your Father who is in heaven is perfect.

In this manner, therefore, pray you: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

And he stretched out his hand toward his disciples, and said: Behold my mother and my brothers. For whoever will do the will of my Father who is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

But you must not be called Rabbi; for one is your leader, and all of you are brethren. And call no man on earth your father; for one is your Father, who is in heaven.

Then Jesus said to them: Fear not; go, tell my brethren to go into Galilee, and there they shall see me.

A new commandment I give to you, That you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.

This is my commandment: That you love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love has no man than this, that one should lay down his life for his friends.

Jesus said to her: Touch me not, for I have not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say to them, I ascend to my Father and your Father, and to my God and your God.

Brethren, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For you have not again received the spirit of bondage, that you may fear; but you have received the spirit of adoption, by which we cry, Abba, Father. read more. The Spirit itself testifies with our spirit, that we are the children of God; and, if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified together.

For those whom he foreknew, he predestinated to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren:

in love to the brotherhood, be kindly affectionate one to another; in showing honor, be examples one to another;

in hope, be joyful; in affliction, be patient; in prayer, be per severing; administer to the necessities of the saints; be careful to entertain strangers;

If possible, as far as may be in your power, be at peace with all men. Beloved, avenge not yourselves, but give place to the wrath of God; for it is written: Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord. read more. If, therefore, your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him drink; for by doing this, you will heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome by evil; but overcome evil with good.

Owe no one any thing, except to love one another; for he that loves another, has fulfilled the law. For these commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not indulge evil desire; and if there is any other commandment, all are summed up in this saying, namely: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. read more. Love works no evil to our neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law.

But now I am going to Jerusalem, to minister to the saints.

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ. For by one Spirit we all were immersed into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and we all have been made to drink of one Spirit. read more. For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot shall say: Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body, is it, for this reason, no part of the body? And if the ear shall say: Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body, is it, for this reason, no part of the body? If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? But now God has placed the members, each of them, in the body, as it has pleased him. And if they were all one member, where were the body? But now there are many members, but one body. The eye can not say to the hand: I have no need of you; or again, the head to the feet: I have no need of you. But much more are those members of the body necessary, which seem to be more feeble. And those members of the body, which, we think, are less honorable, around these we place the more abundant honor; and our uncomely members have the more abundant comeliness: for our comely members have no need. But God has so arranged the body, giving more abundant honor to that part which is deficient, that there may be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same anxious care, one for another; and if one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. Now, you are the body of Christ, and, as individuals, you are members.

And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. So, then, you are no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, an heir also of God, through Christ.

For, in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision, but faith that works by love.

For you have been called to freedom, brethren: only use not your freedom as an occasion for the flesh, but become servants to one another, through love. For all the law is fulfilled in one commandment, in this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. read more. But if you bite and devour one another, take heed lest you be utterly destroyed by one another.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness,

Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, but especially to those who are the household of the faith.

Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, but especially to those who are the household of the faith.

Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

Let all bitterness and anger and wrath and clamor and impious speaking be put away from you, with all malice:

and walk in love, as the Christ also loved us, and gave him self for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet odor.

and over all these put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.

But with respect to brotherly love, you have no need that I write to you: for you yourselves are taught of God to love one another;

For God is not unjust, that he should forget your work, and the love which you have shown for his name by having ministered to the saints, and by continuing to minister.

Let brotherly love continue.

Let brotherly love continue. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for, by this means, some have unconsciously entertained angels.

But forget not to do good, and to be liberal: for with such, sacrifices God is well pleased.

Having purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit, to unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another with a pure heart fervently,

Having purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit, to unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another with a pure heart fervently,

Honor all men; love the brotherhood; reverence God; honor the king.

Finally, be all of the same mind, be sympathizing, lovers of the brethren, kind-hearted, humble-minded;

Being firm in the faith, resist him, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren who are in the world.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and his love is perfected in us. read more. By this we know that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen, and we do testify, that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the. world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwells in him, and he in God. And we have known and believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he that dwells in love, dwells in God, and God in him. By this is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because, as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has torment: he that fears is not made perfect in love. We love him, because he first loved us. If any man say, I love God, and yet hate his brother, he is a liar: for he that loves not his brother, whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? And this commandment we have from him: That he that loves God, must love his brother also.

saying: What you see, write in a book, and send to the seven churches; to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.