And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,

Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts;

These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about by winds; withered autumnal trees, without fruit, twice dead, plucked out by the roots;

And the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feasts:

For if ye love them who love you, what thanks have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.

And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love: and he that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God, and God in him.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth, is not made perfect in love.

A new commandment I give to you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

For if ye love them who love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?

And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more than all whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices.

And he said to them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, who love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the market-places,

If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

Love worketh no ill to one's neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit to unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

But concerning brotherly love ye need not that I write to you: for ye yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loveth the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is from God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

If a man sayeth, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar. For he that loveth not his brother, whom he hath seen, how can he love God, whom he hath not seen?

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.

Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

He saith to him the third time, Simon son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved, because he said to him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said to him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith to him, Feed my sheep.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me, shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

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

And I have declared to them thy name, and will declare it: that the love with which thou hast loved me, may be in them, and I in them.

So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith to him, Yes, Lord: thou knowest that I love thee. He saith to him, Feed my lambs.

He saith to him again the second time, Simon son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith to him, Yes, Lord: thou knowest that I love thee. He saith to him, Feed my sheep.

And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.

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

And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savor.

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