These are they who are stains upon your love-feasts; when they feast sumptuously without scruple, looking after none but themselves. They are clouds without water, driven along by the winds; trees of autumn, fruitless, doubly dead, torn up by the roots,

Now just before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour was come when he should leave this world to go to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, showed forth his love to the end.

"If you love those who love you what credit is it to you? Why even sinners love those who love them.

and to piety brotherly love, and to brotherly love, love itself.

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

And we do know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he who is abiding in love is abiding in God, and God is abiding in him.

Fear does not exist in love; but love, when it is perfect, drives out fear. For fear has always torment, and he who has fear is not yet perfected in love.

If any one says, "I love God," and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot possibly love God, whom he has not seen.

Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love makes no parade, is not puffed up,

That is how husbands ought to love their wives, as they love their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God; and every one that loves us a child of God.

It is not needed that I should write to you about brotherly love; for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.

Now that by obedience to the truth you have purified your lives for a brotherly love without hypocrisy, you must love one another from your hearts, fervently.

Above everything have fervent love to one another; for love veils a multitude of sins.

We know that we have migrated, out of death into life, because we love our brothers. He who has no love is abiding in death.

He who does not love, does not know God; for God is love.

No man has ever gazed on God; but if we love one another, God ever abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

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

And this is love, that we should lead our lives according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should pass your life in love.

Love never wrongs his neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilment of the Law.

For I wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart, through many tears; not to pain you, but to convince you of my love, my abundant love for you.

Faith, Hope, Love endure??hese three; but the greatest of these is Love.

"For if you love only those who love you, what reward have you?

and that beside him there is none other, and to love him with all one's heart and with all one's understanding and with all one's might, and to love one's neighbor as oneself is far beyond all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."

"If you obey my commands you will abide in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and abide in his love.

"It is he who has my commands and obeys them that loves me; and he who loves me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will manifest myself to him."

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

"As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love.

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,

and to lead lives of love, just as Christ also loved you and gave himself up for you, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for you, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for "an odor of sweetness."

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

For my part, I will most gladly spend, yea, and will myself be spent, for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I to be loved the less?

If God so loved us, beloved, we also ought to love one another.

We love because He loved us first.

And we have this command from God: HE WHO LOVES GOD IS TO LOVE HIS BROTHER ALSO.

Never owe any one anything save the debt of brotherly love; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the Law.