These people are stains on your love-feasts; they have no qualms about carousing in your midst, they look after none but themselves ??rainless clouds, swept along by the wind, trees in autumn without fruit, doubly dead and so uprooted,

Hearing this, one of his fellow guests said to him, "Blessed is he who feasts in the Realm of God!"

If you love only those who love you, what credit is that to you? Why, even sinful men love those who love them.

For the third time he asked him, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Now Peter was vexed at being asked a third time, "Do you love me?" So he replied; "Lord, you know everything, you can see I love you." Jesus said, "Then feed my sheep.

Love is very patient, very kind. Love knows no jealousy; love makes no parade, gives itself no airs,

Love lies in this, not in our love for him but in his love for us ??in the sending of his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

well, we do know, we have believed, the love God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

Love has no dread in it; no, love in its fulness drives all dread away, for dread has to do with punishment ??anyone who has dread, has not reached the fulness of love.

If anyone declares, 'I love God,' and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who will not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot possibly love the God whom he has never seen.

So ought husbands to love their wives ??to love them as their own bodies (he who loves his wife loves himself).

I give you a new command, to love one another ??as I have loved you, you are to love one another.

Love not the world, nor yet what is in the world; if anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love belongs to God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God;

If you keep my commands you will remain within my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain within his love.

Then after breakfast Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than the others do?" "Why, Lord," he said, "you know I love you." "Then feed my lambs," said Jesus.

Again he asked him, for the second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" "Why, Lord," he said, "you know I love you." "Then be a shepherd to my sheep," said Jesus.

Also, to love him with the whole heart, with the whole understanding, and with the whole strength, and to love one's neighbour as oneself ??that is far more than all holocausts and sacrifices."

Therefore I tell you, many as her sins are, they are forgiven, for her love is great; whereas he to whom little is forgiven has but little love."

For if you love only those who love you, what reward do you get for that? do not the very taxgatherers do as much?

Love never wrongs a neighbour; that is why love is the fulfilment of the law.

And may the Lord make you increase and excel in love to one another and to all men (as is my love for you),

You need no one to write you upon brotherly love, for you are yourselves taught by God to love one another,

Now that your obedience to the Truth has purified your souls for a brotherly love that is sincere, love one another heartily and steadily.

love is never glad when others go wrong, love is gladdened by goodness,

Thus 'faith and hope and love last on, these three,' but the greatest of all is love.

Above all, be keen to love one another, for love hides a host of sins.

For I wrote you in sore distress and misery of heart, with many a tear ??not to pain you but to convince you of my love, my special love for you.

We know we have crossed from death to life, because we love the brotherhood; he who has no love [for his brother] remains in death.

he who does not love, does not know God, for God is love.

Beloved, if God had such love for us, we ought to love one another.

God no one has ever seen; but if we love one another, then God remains within us, and love for him is complete in us.

To live by his commands, that is what love means: and the command is, live in love as you have learned to do from the very beginning.

He who possesses my commands and obeys them is he who loves me, and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and appear to him."

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