These are the ones feasting together without reverence, hidden reefs at your love feasts, caring for themselves, waterless clouds carried away by winds, late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted,

"And if you love those who love you, what kind of credit is [that] to you? For even sinners love those who love them!

He said to him a third [time], "Simon [son] of John, do you love me?" Peter was distressed because he said to him a third [time], "Do you love me?" and he said to him, "Lord, you know everything! You know that I love you!" Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep!

Love is patient, love is kind, love is not jealous, [it] does not boast, [it] does not become conceited,

and with godliness, brotherly love, and with brotherly love, love.

And we have come to know and have believed the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.

[There] is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear includes punishment, and the one who is afraid has not been perfected in love.

If anyone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar, for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen is not able to love God whom he has not seen.

"A new commandment I give to you: that you love one another--just as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.

For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not the tax collectors also do the same?

And to love him from your whole heart and from your whole understanding and from your whole strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."

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

Now when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon [son] of John, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs!"

He said to him again a second time, "Simon [son] of John, do you love me?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you." He said to him, "Shepherd my sheep!"

Love does not commit evil against a neighbor. Therefore love [is the] fulfillment of the law.

And now these three [things] remain: faith, hope, [and] love. But the greatest of these [is] love.

But concerning brotherly love, I do not have need to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

in order that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands [and to] love their children,

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for sincere brotherly love, love one another fervently from the heart,

Above all, keep your love for one another constant, because love covers a large number of sins.

We know that we have passed over from death to life because we love the brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.

The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us and his love is perfected in us.

By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and keep his commandments.

Now before the feast of Passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, [and] having loved [his] own in the world, loved them to the end.

The one who has my commandments and keeps them--that one is the one who loves me. And the one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him."

"Just as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

Thus also husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. The one who loves his own wife loves himself.

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

Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves me he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and {will take up residence with him}.

This is my commandment: that you love one another just as I have loved you.

And I made known to them your name, and will make [it] known, in order that the love [with] which you loved me may be in them, and I [may be] in them."

Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another, for the one who loves someone else has fulfilled the law.

But I will spend and be expended most gladly for your lives. If I love you much more, am I to be loved less?

But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love [with] which he loved us,

and live in love, just as also Christ loved us, and gave himself for us an offering and sacrifice to God for a fragrant smell.

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

Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

We love, because he first loved us.

And this [is] the commandment we have from him: that the one who loves God should love his brother also.