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.

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,

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.

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

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 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.

And if anyone there loves peace, your peace will come upon him; but if not, it will come back to you.

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?

And may the Lord who gives us peace give you peace in whatever circumstances you may be. The Lord be with you all.

and if the house should prove deserving, may your good wish for peace upon it come true, but if not, may your good wish bring peace to yourselves.

"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace but a sword.

I now leave you the blessing of peace, I give you the blessing of my own peace. I myself do not give it in the way the world gives it. Stop letting your hearts be troubled or timid.

to my dearly loved child, Timothy: spiritual blessing, mercy, and peace be with you from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

You must keep on fleeing from the evil impulses of youth, but ever strive for uprightness, faith, love, and peace, in association with those who call upon the Lord with pure hearts.

Greet one another with a kiss of love. Peace to all of you that are in union with Christ.