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,

But about loving the brothers, there is no need for me to say anything to you in this letter: for you have the teaching of God that love for one another is right and necessary;

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.

Even so, being full of loving desire for you, we took delight in giving you not only God's good news, but even our lives, because you were dear to us.

False to their friends, acting without thought, lifted up in mind, loving pleasure more than God;

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.

Have respect for all, loving the brothers, fearing God, honouring the king.

Last of all, see that you are all in agreement; feeling for one another, loving one another like brothers, full of pity, without pride:

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,

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 be loving to those who are against you and do them good, and give them your money, not giving up hope, and your reward will be great and you will be the sons of the Most High: for he is kind to evil men, and to those who have hard hearts.

My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul;

And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels going out to the fight with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels made war,

What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies?

Who ever goes to war without looking to someone to be responsible for his payment? who puts in vines and does not take the fruit of them? or who takes care of sheep without drinking of their milk?

Take up God's instruments of war, so that you may be able to keep your position against all the deceits of the Evil One.

And if Satan is at war with himself, and there is division in him, he will not keep his place but will come to an end.

And you, who in the past were cut off and at war with God in your minds through evil works, he has now made one