These men are unseen rocks at your love-feasts, when they take part in them with you, keepers of sheep who without fear take the food of the sheep; clouds without water rushing before the wind, wasted trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots,

Now before the feast of the Passover, it was clear to Jesus that the time had come for him to go away from this world to the Father. Having once had love for those in the world who were his, his love for them went on to the end.

And the things desired by them are the first places at feasts, and the chief seats in the Synagogues,

And to have the chief seats in the Synagogues and the first places at feasts;

Keep away from the scribes, whose pleasure it is to go about in long robes, and to have words of respect said to them in the market-places, and to take the chief seats in the Synagogues and the first places at feasts;

Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride;

If you have love for those who have love for you, what credit is it to you? for even sinners have love for those who have love for them.

My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.

He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.

Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself:

And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself.

Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

And this is love, not that we had love for God, but that he had love for us, and sent his Son to be an offering for our sins.

And we have seen and had faith in the love which God has for us. God is love, and everyone who has love is in God, and God is in him.

There is no fear in love: true love has no room for fear, because where fear is, there is pain; and he who is not free from fear is not complete in love.

If a man says, I have love for God, and has hate for his brother, his words are false: for how is the man who has no love for his brother whom he has seen, able to have love for God whom he has not seen?

I give you a new law: Have love one for another; even as I have had love for you, so are you to have love one for another.

Even as the Father has given me his love, so I have given my love to you: be ever in my love.

Then when they had taken food, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, is your love for me greater than the love of these others? He said to him, Yes, Lord; you are certain of my love for you. He said to him, Then give my lambs food.

My loved ones, if God had such love for us, it is right for us to have love for one another.

Be in debt for nothing, but to have love for one another: for he who has love for his neighbour has kept all the law.

Love does no wrong to his neighbour, so love makes the law complete.

Give my love to Tryphaena and Tryphosa, workers in the Lord. Give my love to my dear Persis, who did much work in the Lord.

And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.

Husbands, have love for your wives, even as Christ had love for the church, and gave himself for it;

Give words of love to every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me send you their love.

And the Lord give you increase of love in fullest measure to one another and to all men, even as our love to you;

All who are with me send you their love. Give our love to our friends in the faith. Grace be with you all.

And to have love for him with all the heart, and with all the mind, and with all the strength, and to have the same love for his neighbour as for himself, is much more than all forms of offerings.

Give words of love from me to those who are rulers over you, and to all the saints. Those who are in Italy send you their love.

And most of all be warm in your love for one another; because in love there is forgiveness for sins without number:

We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death.

He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love.

No man has ever seen God: if we have love for one another, God is in us and his love is made complete in us:

And this is the word which we have from him, that he who has love for God is to have the same love for his brother.

Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child.

In this way, we are certain that we have love for the children of God, when we have love for God and keep his laws.

But I am hoping to see you in a short time, and to have talk with you face to face. May you have peace. Your friends here send you their love. Give my love to our friends by name.

And so I say to you, She will have forgiveness for her sins which are great in number, because of her great love: but he who has small need of forgiveness gives little love.

If you keep my laws, you will be ever in my love, even as I have kept my Father's laws, and am ever in his love.

This is the law I give you: Have love one for another, even as I have love for you.

For the Father himself gives his love to you, because you have given your love to me and have had faith that I came from God.

Again, a second time, he said to him, Simon, son of John, have you any love for me? Yes, Lord, he said, you are certain of my love for you. Then take care of my sheep, said Jesus.

For if you have love for those who have love for you, what credit is it to you? do not the tax-farmers the same?

He who has more love for his father or mother than for me is not good enough for me; he who has more love for son or daughter than for me is not good enough for me.

But now we still have faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

For God is my witness, how my love goes out to you all in the loving mercies of Christ Jesus.

If then there is any comfort in Christ, any help given by love, any uniting of hearts in the Spirit, any loving mercies and pity,

Luke, our well-loved medical friend, and Demas, send you their love.

But about loving the brothers, there is no need for me to say anything to you in this letter: for you have the teaching of God that love for one another is right and necessary;

And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:

We have the power of loving, because he first had love for us.

I, a ruler in the church, send word to the well loved Gaius, for whom I have true love.

And I will gladly give all I have for your souls. If I have the more love for you, am I to be loved the less?