and the hope doth not make ashamed, because the love of God hath been poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that hath been given to us.

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

Who shall separate us from the love of the Christ? tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

nor things about to be, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of god, that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

according as it hath been written, 'Jacob I did love, and Esau I did hate.'

The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good;

in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other -- law he hath fulfilled,

for, 'Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false testimony, Thou shalt not covet;' and if there is any other command, in this word it is summed up, in this: 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;'

the love to the neighbour doth work no ill; the love, therefore, is the fulness of law.

and if through victuals thy brother is grieved, no more dost thou walk according to love; do not with thy victuals destroy that one for whom Christ died.

And I call upon you, brethren, through our Lord Jesus Christ, and through the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in the prayers for me unto God,