These are the ones who are like dangerous reefs at your love feasts. They feast with you, nurturing only themselves without fear. They are waterless clouds carried along by winds; trees in late autumn—fruitless, twice dead, pulled out by the roots;

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

When they had eaten breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these?”

“Yes, Lord,” he said to Him, “You know that I love You.”

“Feed My lambs,” He told him.

He asked him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?”

Peter was grieved that He asked him the third time, “Do you love Me?” He said, “Lord, You know everything! You know that I love You.”

“Feed My sheep,” Jesus said.

Love is patient, love is kind.
Love does not envy,
is not boastful, is not conceited,

And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

There is no fear in love; instead, perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. So the one who fears has not reached perfection in love.

If anyone says, “I love God,” yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For the person who does not love his brother he has seen cannot love the God he has not seen.

“I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you must also love one another.

Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

Do not love the world or the things that belong to the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.

A second time He asked him, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?”

“Yes, Lord,” he said to Him, “You know that I love You.”

“Shepherd My sheep,” He told him.

Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Love, therefore, is the fulfillment of the law.

Now these three remain:
faith, hope, and love.
But the greatest of these is love.

About brotherly love: You don’t need me to write you because you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

If you keep My commands you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commands and remain in His love.

For if you love those who love you, what reward will you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?

The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God remains in us and His love is perfected in us.

This is how we know that we love God’s children when we love God and obey His commands.

And this is love: that we walk according to His commands. This is the command as you have heard it from the beginning: you must walk in love.

Above all, maintain an intense love for each other, since love covers a multitude of sins.

We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.

By obedience to the truth, having purified yourselves for sincere love of the brothers, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,

And to love Him with all your heart, with all your understanding, and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself, is far more important than all the burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

The one who has My commands and keeps them is the one who loves Me. And the one who loves Me will be loved by My Father. I also will love him and will reveal Myself to him.”

In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

“As the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you. Remain in My love.

Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Do not owe anyone anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

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

And walk in love, as the Messiah also loved us and gave Himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

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

Jesus answered, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.

This is My command: Love one another as I have loved you.

I made Your name known to them
and will make it known,
so the love You have loved Me with
may be in them and I may be in them.

Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also must love one another.

We love because He first loved us.

And we have this command from Him: The one who loves God must also love his brother.