Then a voice from heaven said, "This is my Son, whom I love. I am pleased with him!"

"You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor' and 'Hate your enemy.'

But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not the tax collectors also do the same?

Be ye therefore perfect in love and goodness, as your Father who is in heaven is perfect.

And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, because they love to stand [and] pray in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, in order that they may be seen by people. Truly I say to you, they have received their reward in full!

"No one is able to serve two masters. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You are not able to serve God and money.

He who has more love for his father or mother than for me is not good enough for me; he who has more love for son or daughter than for me is not good enough for me.

"Here is my servant whom I have chosen, the one I love, in whom I take great delight. I will put my Spirit on him, and he will proclaim justice to the nations.

he that is meant by the thorny ground, where other seed fell, is one that heareth the word: which by cares of this life, and the deceitful love of riches, is soon stifled, and becomes unfruitful:

He was still speaking when a bright cloud suddenly overshadowed them. A voice from the cloud said, "This is my Son, whom I love. I am pleased with him. Keep on listening to him!"

honor your father and your mother, and love your neighbor as yourself."

And he said to him, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.

This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

And a second like it is this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

And they love the place of honor at banquets and the best seats in the synagogues

They love the [special] greetings they receive at the open shopping markets and to be addressed as 'Rabbi' [Note: This word signified 'great' or 'master'].

"A curse on you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees! For you pay tithes on mint and dill and cummin, and yet leave out the more vital matters of the law, justice, love and fidelity. These latter especially you ought to have done, but ought not to have left out the former.

And because wrongdoing will be increased, the love of most people will become cold.