And if a peace-loving person is there, your peace will remain on him, but if not, it will return to you.

And you should remain in that same house [i.e., the peace-loving one], eating and drinking whatever they serve you, for the worker deserves his wages. Do not move from house to house [i.e., wasting time].

But the wisdom from above is first pure [morally and spiritually undefiled], then peace-loving [courteous, considerate], gentle, reasonable [and willing to listen], full of compassion and good fruits. It is unwavering, without [self-righteous] hypocrisy [and self-serving guile].

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.

Hold them in the highest regard, loving them because of their work. Live in peace with each other.

Greet one another with a loving kiss. Peace be to all of you who are in the Messiah!

The one having my commandments, and keeping them, he is the one loving me with divine love: the one loving me with divine love, shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will manifest myself unto him.

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.

So the husbands ought to love their own wives with divine love as their own bodies. The one loving his own wife is loving himself:

Stop loving the world and the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, the Father's love is not in him.

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.

A new commandment, give I unto you, - That ye be loving one another: Just as I loved you, that, ye also, be loving one another:

treacherous, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving God.

But there is a contrast between Adam's Offence and God's gracious Gift. For, if by reason of the offence of the one man the whole race died, far more were the loving-kindness of God, and the gift given in the loving-kindness of the one man, Jesus Christ, lavished upon the whole race.

'He who is loving father or mother above me, is not worthy of me, and he who is loving son or daughter above me, is not worthy of me,

If any one may say, I love God with divine love, and may hate his brother, he is a liar: for the one not loving his brother whom he has seen, with divine love, is not able to love God, whom he has not seen, with divine love.

Bearing fruit and growing, as it does, through all the world, just as it did among you, from the very day that you heard of God's loving-kindness, and understood what that loving-kindness really is.

Owe no man anything, but to love one another with divine love: for the one loving another with divine love has fulfilled the law.

We know that we have passed out of the death into the life, because we love the brethren with divine love; the one loving not with divine love, abides in the death.

And we have this precept from him, that the one loving God with divine love also loves his brother with divine love.

Every one believing that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God: and every one loving with divine love him who begat, also loves him who has been begotten of him, with divine love.

Finally, be ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded:

but hospitable, loving what is good, sensible, just, devout, self-controlled,

The one not loving with divine love does not know God; because God is divine love.

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,

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

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

in brotherly love to one another, loving fervently, having led one another in honor.

And I will very gladly spend and be spent for your souls, even if loving you more and more, I am loved the less.

The one loving his brother with divine love abides in the light, and there is no stumbling in him.

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: every one not doing righteousness is not of God, and the one not loving his brother with divine love.

and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstbegotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. To the one loving us with divine love, and having washed us from our sins in His own blood,

The one not loving me with divine love does not keep my words: and the word which you hear is not mine, but that of the Father who sent me.

Ye husbands, be loving your wives, even as, the Christ also, loved the assembly, and delivered, himself, up in her behalf,

But, concerning brotherly love - no need, have ye, that we be writing unto you; for, ye yourselves, are, God-taught, to the loving of one another; -

Jesus answered, and said unto him - If any man be loving me, my word, he will keep, and, my Father, will love him, - and, unto him, will we come, and, an abode with him, will we make.

One of his disciples, the one whom Jesus kept loving, had been sitting very close to him.

When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he kept loving standing there, he told his mother, "Dear lady, here is your son."

So she ran off and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, whom Jesus kept loving. She told them, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they have put him!"

That disciple whom Jesus kept loving told Peter, "It's the Lord!" When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put his clothes back on, because he was practically naked, and jumped into the sea.

Peter turned around and noticed the disciple whom Jesus kept loving following them. He was the one who had put his head on Jesus' chest at the supper and had asked, "Lord, who is the one who is going to betray you?"

How blessed is the man who endures temptation! When he has passed the test, he will receive the victor's crown of life that God has promised to those who keep on loving him.

Listen, my dear brothers! God has chosen the poor in the world to become rich in faith and to be heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who keep on loving him, has he not?

Honor everyone. Keep on loving the community of believers, fearing God, and honoring the king.

Husbands, be loving to your wives, and be not cross or surly with them.

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

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.

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?

Not given to wine, no striker, not desirous of filthy gain, but gentle, patient, not loving money;

For Demas hath forsaken me, loving the present world, and is gone to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

So, loving you tenderly, we were ready to impart to you not only the gospel of God, but our own souls also, because ye were dear to us.

I wrote something to the church, but Diotrephes, loving the preeminence over them, does not receive us.

For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and harlots, and murderers, and idolaters, and every one doing and loving falsehood.

Beware of the scribes, wishing to walk about in robes, and loving salutations in the forums, and the first seats in the synagogues, and the first couches at the suppers,

The one loving his soul shall lose it; but the one that hateth his soul in this world will preserve it unto eternal life.

And by God's appointment there are in the Church--first Apostles, secondly Prophets, thirdly teachers. Then come miraculous powers, and then ability to cure diseases or render loving service, or powers of organization, or varieties of the gift of 'tongues.'

For He says, "At a time of welcome I have listened to you, and on a day of salvation I have succoured you." Now is the time of loving welcome! Now is the day of salvation!

but a pleasure-loving widow is dead even while still alive.

And were to put on the man of new mould, who, after God, hath been created in his truthful righteousness and loving kindness.

Nevertheless, ye also, do ye, individually, each man be so loving, his own wife, as himself, and, the wife, see that she reverence her husband.

For, such a high-priest as this, for us, was evensuited: Loving, noble, undefiled, set apart from sinners, and become, higher than the heavens;

Because, this, is the message which ye have heard from the beginning - that we should be loving one another, -

Jesus said unto them - If, God, had been your father, ye had been loving me, for, I, from God, came forth, and am here; for, not even of myself, have I come, but, he, sent me forth.

If ye be loving me, my commandments, ye will keep;

The Jews, therefore, said, "Behold, how He was loving him!

It is by this that every one will recognize you as my disciples--by your loving one another."

On coming there he saw to his great joy these tokens of the loving-kindness of God, and encouraged them all to make up their minds to be faithful to the Lord--

After the congregation had dispersed, many of the Jews, and of the converts who joined in their worship, followed Paul and Barnabas, who talked with them and urged them to continue to rely upon the loving-kindness of God.

No, it is through the loving-kindness of the Lord Jesus that we, just as they do, believe that we have been saved."

When he wanted to cross to Greece, the Brethren furthered his plans, and wrote to the disciples there to welcome him. On his arrival he proved of great assistance to those who had, through the loving-kindness of God, become believers in Christ,

But, in his loving-kindness, are being freely pronounced righteous through the deliverance found in Christ Jesus.

For if, by reason of the offence of the one man, Death reigned through that one man, far more will those, upon whom God's loving- kindness and his gift of righteousness are lavished, find Life, and reign through the one man, Jesus Christ.

Law was introduced in order that offences might be multiplied. But, where sins were multiplied, the loving-kindness of God was lavished the more,

In order than, just as Sin had reigned in the realm of Death, so, too, might Loving-kindness reign through righteousness, and result in Immortal Life, through Jesus Christ, our Lord.

What are we to say, then? Are we to continue to sin, in order that God's loving-kindness may be multiplied?

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,

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.

Peace I leave to you, my peace I give to you; I give it not as the world gives its 'Peace!' Let not your hearts be disquieted or timid.

and we can be assured of receiving from God whatever we ask Him for, because we are obeying His commands [i.e., especially the one about loving others] and are practicing what is pleasing to Him.

For this reason, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven, for she has loved much. [Note: This suggests that her forgiveness was the result of her loving, but the point Jesus makes better fits the idea that her forgiveness produced love]. But the person who is forgiven of little [i.e., of only a few sins], loves [only] a little bit."

The love consists not in our having loved God, but in his loving us and sending his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

and lead loving lives, just as Christ loved you and gave himself for you, as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

This is how we can be sure that we love the children of God: it is by loving God and obeying his commands.

if of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not -- but I chose out of the world -- because of this the world hateth you.

And Jesus, looking on him and loving him, said, There is one thing needed: go, get money for your goods, and give it to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven: and come with me.

Go on loving your brothers in the faith.

For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.

Because of the loving mercies of our God, by which the dawn from heaven has come to us,

but, according as it hath been written, 'What eye did not see, and ear did not hear, and upon the heart of man came not up, what God did prepare for those loving Him -- '

And they overcame him through the blood of the Lamb and the word of their witness; and loving not their lives they freely gave themselves up to death.

But as for you, O man of God, flee from these things; aim at and pursue righteousness [true goodness, moral conformity to the character of God], godliness [the fear of God], faith, love, steadfastness, and gentleness.

The grace with all those loving our Lord Jesus Christ -- undecayingly! Amen.