and that this hope never disappoints, because God's love for us floods our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

But God gives proof of His love to us in Christ's dying for us while we were still sinners.

Now we know that for those who love God all things are working together for good--for those, I mean, whom with deliberate purpose He has called.

Who shall separate us from Christ's love? Shall affliction or distress, persecution or hunger, nakedness or danger or the sword?

nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God which rests upon us in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Let your love be perfectly sincere. Regard with horror what is evil; cling to what is right.

As for brotherly love, be affectionate to one another; in matters of worldly honour, yield to one another.

Owe nothing to any one except mutual love; for he who loves his fellow man has satisfied the demands of Law.

For the precepts, "Thou shalt not commit adultery," "Thou shalt do no murder," "Thou shalt not steal," "Thou shalt not covet," and all other precepts, are summed up in this one command, "Thou shalt love thy fellow man as much as thou lovest thyself."

Love avoids doing any wrong to one's fellow man, and is therefore complete obedience to Law.

If your brother is pained by the food you are eating, your conduct is no longer controlled by love. Take care lest, by the food you eat, you lead to ruin a man for whom Christ died.

But I entreat you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love which His Spirit inspires, to help me by wrestling in prayer to God on my behalf,