endurance produces character, and character produces hope ??5 a hope which never disappoints us, since God's love floods our hearts through the holy Spirit which has been given to us.

But God proves his love for us by this, that Christ died for us when we were still sinners.

We know also that those who love God, those who have been called in terms of his purpose, have his aid and interest in everything.

What can ever part us from Christ's love? Can anguish or calamity or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or the sword?

no powers of the Height or of the Depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to part us from God's love in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Let your love be a real thing, with a loathing for evil and a bent for what is good.

Put affection into your love for the brotherhood; be forward to honour one another;

Be in debt to no man ??apart from the debt of love one to another. He who loves his fellow-man has fulfilled the law.

You must not commit adultery, you must not kill, you must not steal, you must not covet ??these and any other command are summed up in a single word, You must love your neighbour as yourself.

Love never wrongs a neighbour; that is why love is the fulfilment of the law.

If your brother is being injured because you eat a certain food, then you are no longer living by the rule of love. Do not let that food of yours ruin the man for whom Christ died.

Brothers, I beg of you, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love that the Spirit inspires, rally round me by praying to God for me;