"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall 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 have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

"And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners, that they may be seen by men. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

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

Jesus said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.'

And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'

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

And because wickedness will increase, the love of most will grow cold.

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.'

The second is this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."

and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."

"But I say to you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

But love your enemies, do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For he is kind to the ungrateful and evil.

When they had nothing with which to pay him back, he freely forgave them both. Now which of them will love him more?"

And he answered, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind'; and 'your neighbor as yourself.'"

But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and neglect justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.

Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces.

No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon."

"Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts,

But I know you, that you do not have the love of God in you.

Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I proceeded and came forth from God; I have not come of my own accord, but he sent me.

So the sisters sent to him, saying, "Lord, he whom you love is sick."

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 all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."

"If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

He who has my commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him."

Jesus answered him, "If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

He who does not love me does not keep my words; and the word which you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me.

But I do as the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.

As the Father has loved me, I also have loved you; abide in my love.

If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

This I command you, that you love one another.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

I have made known to them your name, and will make it known, that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them."

When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I love you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs."

He said to him again a second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I love you." He said to him, "Tend my sheep."

He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, "Do you love me?" And he said to him, "Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep.

And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us.

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who are called according to his purpose.

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

nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Let love be genuine. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.

Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; outdo one another in showing honor.

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

The commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not covet," and any other commandment there may be, are summed up in this sentence, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

If your brother is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. Do not by your eating destroy the one for whom Christ died.

Now I urge you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

But, as it is written, "No eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived what God has prepared for those who love him,"

What do you desire? Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love and a spirit of gentleness?

Now concerning food sacrificed to idols: we know that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

If I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

If I give all I have to the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous or boastful, it is not arrogant

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails; but where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

So now faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.

Let all that you do be done in love.

If anyone does not love the Lordlet him be accursed. Come, O Lord!

My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.

For I wrote you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.

I urge you, therefore, to reaffirm your love for him.

For the love of Christ controls us, because we are convinced that one has died for all; therefore all have died.

in purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in genuine love,

But as you excel in everythingin faith, in utterance, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in your love for ussee that you excel in this work of grace also.

I am not speaking this as a command, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it with the earnestness of others.

Therefore openly before the churches, show these men the proof of your love and the reason for our boasting about you.

Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you the more, am I to be loved the less?

Finally, brethren, farewell. Aim for perfection, listen to my appeal, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is of any avail, but faith working through love.

For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before him. In love

For this reason, ever since I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,

so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing tolerance for one another in love,

But speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into him, who is the head, into Christ,

from whom the whole body, being joined and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each part, causes the growth of the body and builds itself up in love.

and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

So husbands ought also to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

However, each one of you must also love his wife as himself, and the wife must see that she respects her husband.

Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.

And this is my prayer, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment,

The latter do it out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel;

Therefore if there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any consolation of love, if there is any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion,