Now if you practice loving only those who love you, what credit do you get for that? Why, even notorious sinners practice loving those who love them.

Stop loving the world, or the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, there is no love for the Father in his heart,

Dearly beloved, let us practice loving one another, because love originates with God, and everyone who practices loving is a child of God and knows God by experience.

This is the way married men ought to love their wives, as they do their own bodies. The married man who loves his wife is really loving himself,

Do you think so little of the riches of God's kindness, forbearance, and patience, not conscious that His kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?

Stop owing anybody anything, except the obligation to love one another, for whoever practices loving others has perfectly satisfied the law.

For if you practice loving only those who love you, what reward will you get? Do not even the tax-collectors practice that?

Dear children, let us stop loving with words or lips alone, but let us love with actions and in truth.

No one has ever seen God; yet if we practice loving one another, God remains in union with us, and our love for Him attains perfection in our hearts,

This is my command to you, to keep on loving one another as I have loved you.

Yes, we know that all things go on working together for the good of those who keep on loving God, who are called in accordance with God's purpose.

Which do you prefer? My coming to you with a club, or in a gentle, loving spirit?

through my personal purity, my knowledge, my patience, my kindness; through the Holy Spirit, my genuine love,

Finally, brothers, goodbye! Practice the perfecting of your characters, keep listening to my appeals, continue thinking in harmony and living in peace, and the loving, peace-giving God will be with you.

But the product of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

So as God's own chosen people, consecrated and dearly loved, you must once for all clothe yourselves with tenderheartedness, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience; you must keep on

But I tell you, practice loving your enemies and praying for your persecutors,

treacherous, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure more than God,

Finally, you must all live in harmony, be sympathetic, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, humble,

His command is this, that we should believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ and practice loving one another, just as He commanded us to do.

But I say to you who listen now to me, practice loving your enemies, practice doing good to those who hate you,

But you must practice loving your enemies, doing good to them, and lending to them, despairing of nothing; so that your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

Now Jesus held in loving esteem Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

"What I command you to do is, to keep on loving one another.