You have heard that it was said--'Thou shalt love thy neighbor and hate thy enemy.'

I, however, say to you--Love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you,

For, if you love only those who love you, what reward will you have? Even the tax-gatherers do this!

No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will attach himself to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.

Honor thy father and thy mother.' And 'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost thyself."

His answer was: "'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy Heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.'

The second, which is like it, is this--'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost thyself.'

and, owing to the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold.

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength.'

The second is this--'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost love thyself.' There is no commandment greater than these."

And to 'love him with all one's heart, and with all one's understanding, and with all one's strength,' and to 'love one's neighbor as one loves oneself' is far beyond all 'burnt-offerings and sacrifices.'"

But to you who hear I say--Love your enemies, show kindness to those who hate you,

If you love only those who love you, what thanks will be due to you? Why, even the outcast love those who love them!

But love your enemies, and show them kindness, and lend to them, never despairing. Then your reward shall be great, and you shall be Sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the thankless and the bad.

As they were unable to pay, he forgave them both. Which of them, do you think, will love him the more?"

His reply was--"'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thou dost thyself.'"

But alas for you Pharisees! You pay tithes on mint, rue, and herbs of all kinds, and pass over justice and love to God. These last you ought to have put into practice without neglecting the first.

No servant can serve two masters, for, either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will attach himself to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money."

And the Word became Man, and dwelt among us, (We saw his glory--the glory of the Only Son sent from the Father), full of love and truth.

Out of his fullness we have all received some gift, gift after gift of love;

For the Law was given through Moses, love and truth came through Jesus Christ.

But I know this of you, that you have not the love of God in your hearts.

I give you a new commandment--Love one another; love one another as I have loved you.

If you love me, you will lay my commands to heart,

It is he who has my commands and lays them to heart that loves me; and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him."

"Whoever loves me," Jesus answered, " will lay my Message to heart; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him.

He who does not love me will not lay my Message to heart; and the Message to which you are listening is not my own, but that of the Father who sent me.

But he is coming that the world may see that I love the Father, and that I do as the Father commanded me. Come, let us be going.

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; remain in my love.

If you lay my commands to heart, you will remain in my love; just as I have laid the Father's commands to heart and remain in his love.

This is my command--Love one another, as I have loved you.

No one can give greater proof of love than by laying down his life for his friends.

I am giving you these commands that you may love one another.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world--that is why the world hates you.

Father, my desire for all those whom thou has given me is that they may be with me where I am, so that they may see the honor which thou has given me; for thou didst love me before the beginning of the world.

I have made thee known to them, and will do so still; that the love that thou has had for me may be in their hearts, and that I may be in them also."

When breakfast was over, Jesus said to Simon Peter: "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than the others?" "Yes, Master," he answered, "you know that I am your friend." "Feed my lambs," said Jesus.

Then, a second time, Jesus asked: "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" "Yes, Master," he answered, "you know that I am your friend." "Tend my sheep," said Jesus.

Therefore Paul and Barnabas spent a long time there, and spoke out fearlessly, relying upon the Lord, who confirmed the Message of his Love by permitting signs and wonders to take place at their hands.

But I count my life of no value to myself, if only I may complete the course marked out for me, and the task that was allotted me by the Lord Jesus--which was to declare the Good News of the Love of God.

And now I commend you to the Lord and to the Message of his Love--a Message which has the power to build up your characters, and to give you your place among all those who have become Christ's People.

And that 'hope never disappoints.' For the love of God has filled our hearts through the Holy Spirit which was given us;

But God puts his love for us beyond all doubt by the fact that Christ died on our behalf while we were still sinners.

For Sin shall not lord it over you. You are living under the reign, not of Law, but of Love.

What follows, then? Are we to sin because we are living under the reign of Love and not of Law? Heaven forbid!

But we do know that God causes all things to work together for the good of those who love him-those who have received the Call in accordance with his purpose.

Who is there to separate us from the love of the Christ? Will trouble, or difficulty, or persecution, or hunger, or 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 revealed in Christ Jesus, our Lord!

And so in our own time, too, there is to be found a remnant of our nation selected by God in love.

But if in love, then no longer as a result of obedience. Otherwise love would cease to be love.

Let your love be sincere. Hate the wrong; cling to the right.

In brotherly love, be affectionate to one another; in showing respect, set an example of deference to one another;

Owe nothing to any one except brotherly love; for he who loves his fellow men has satisfied the Law.

The commandments, 'Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not covet,' and whatever other commandment there is, are all summed up in the words--'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost thyself.'

Love never wrongs a neighbor. Therefore Love fully satisfies the Law.

If, for the sake of what you eat, you wound your Brother's feelings, your life has ceased to be ruled by love. Do not, by what you eat, ruin a man for whom Christ died!

I beg you, then, Brothers, by Jesus Christ, our Lord, and by the love inspired by the Spirit, to join me in earnest prayer to God on my behalf.

It is what Scripture speaks of as-'What eye never saw, nor ear ever heard, what never entered the mind of man-even all that God has prepared for those who love him.'

With reference to food that has been offered in sacrifice to idols-We are aware that all of us have knowledge! Knowledge breeds conceit, while love builds up character.

Though I speak in the 'tongues' of men, or even of angels, yet have not Love, I have become mere echoing brass, or a clanging cymbal!

Even though I have the gift of preaching, and fathom all hidden truths and all the depths of knowledge; even though I have such faith as might move mountains, yet have not Love, I am nothing!

Even though I dole my substance to the poor, even though I sacrifice my body, that I may boast, yet have not Love, it avails me nothing!

Love is long-suffering, and kind; Love is never envious, never boastful, never conceited, never behaves unbecomingly;

Love is never self-seeking, never provoked, never reckons up her wrongs;

Love never rejoices at evil, but rejoices in the triumph of Truth;

Love bears with all things, every trustful, ever hopeful, ever patient.

Love never fails. But, whether it be the gift of preaching, it will be done with; whether it be the gift of 'tongues,' it will cease; whether it be knowledge, it, too, will be done with.

Meanwhile Faith, Hope, and Love endure-these three, but the greatest of these is Love.

Seek this Love earnestly, and strive for spiritual gifts, above all for the gift of preaching.

But it is through the love of God that I am what I am, and the love that he showed me has not been wasted. No, I have toiled harder than any of them, and yet it was not I, but the love of God working with me.

Accursed be any one who has no love for the Lord. THE LORD IS COMING.

My love to all of you who are in union with Christ Jesus.

I wrote to you in sore trouble and distress of heart and with many tears, not to give you pain, but to let you see how intense a love I have for you.

So I entreat you to assure him of your love.

It is the love of the Christ which compels us, when we reflect that, as one died for all, therefore all died;

By purity, by knowledge, by patience, by kindliness, by holiness of spirit, by unfeigned love;

There is room there for you, yet there is not room, in your love, for us.

We would remind you, Brothers, of the love that God has shown to the Churches in Macedonia--

And with many an appeal to us for permission, they showed their love, and contributed their share towards the fund for their fellow-Christians.

And this led us to urge upon Titus that, as he had started the work for you, he should also see to the completion of this expression of your love.

And, remembering how you excel in everything--in faith, in teaching, in knowledge, in unfailing earnestness, and in the affection that we have awakened in you--I ask you to excel also in this expression of your love.

And not only that, but he has been elected by the Churches to accompany us on our journey, in Keynesian with this expression of your love, which we are personally administering to the honor of the Lord, and to show our deep interest.

And they also, in their prayers for you, express their longing to see you, because of the surpassing love of God displayed toward you.

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

For my part, I will most gladly spend, and be spent, for your welfare. Can it be that the more intensely I love you the less I am to be loved?

And now, brothers, good-bye. Aim at perfection; take courage; agree together; live in peace. And then God, the source of all love and peace, will be with you.

May the blessing of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion with the Holy Spirit, be with you all.

I am astonished at your so soon deserting him, who called you through the love of Christ, for a different 'Good News,'

But when God, who had set me apart even before my birth, and who called me by his love,

I do not reject the love of God. If righteousness comes through Law, then there was no need for Christ to die!

You have severed yourselves from Christ--you who are seeking to be pronounced righteous through Law; you have fallen away from love.

If a man is in union with Christ Jesus, neither is circumcision nor the omission of it anything, but faith, working through love, is everything.

Indeed, the whole Law has been summed up in this one precept- -'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost thyself.'

But the fruit produced by the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindliness, generosity, trustfulness, gentleness, self-control.

For he chose us in our union with Christ before the creation of the universe, that we might be holy and blameless in his sight, living in the spirit of love.

Yet God, in his abundant compassion, and because of the great love with which he loved us,

So that the Christ, through your faith, may make his home within your hearts in love; And I pray that you, now firmly rooted and established, may, with all Christ's People,

And to understand--though it surpasses all understanding--the love of the Christ; and so be filled to the full with God himself.

But holding the truth in a spirit of love, we shall grow into complete union with him who is our Head--Christ himself.

For from him the whole Body, closely joined and knit together by the contact of every part with the source of its life, derives its power to grow, in proportion to the vigor of each individual part; and so is being built up in a spirit of love.