nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For Moses writes about the righteousness [that is] from the law: "The person who does [this] will live by it."

"Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have torn down your altars, and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life!"

For if their rejection [means] the reconciliation of the world, what [will] their acceptance [mean] except life from the dead?

Love must be without hypocrisy. Abhor what [is] evil; be attached to what [is] good,

being devoted to one another in brotherly love, esteeming one another [more highly] in honor,

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

For the [commandments], "You shall not commit adultery, you shall not commit murder, you shall not steal, you shall not covet," and if [there is] any other commandment, are summed up in this statement: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

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

Let us live decently, as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and licentiousness, not in strife and jealousy.

For if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore whether we live [or] whether we die, we are the Lord's.

For it is written, "As I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will praise God."

For if because of food, your brother is grieved, you are no longer living according to love. Do not destroy by your food that person for whom Christ died.

Now I exhort you, brothers, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to contend along with me in your prayers on my behalf to God,

who risked their own necks for my life, for which not only I am thankful, but also all the churches of the Gentiles;

But just as it is written, "[Things] which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and have not entered into the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those who love him."

for you are still fleshly. For where [there is] jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and do you not live like [unregenerate] people?

whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come, all [things] [are] yours,

What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love and a spirit of gentleness?

Now to the rest I say--not the Lord--if any brother has an unbelieving wife and she consents to live with him, he must not divorce her.

And if any wife has an unbelieving husband and he consents to live with her, she must not divorce her husband.

But to each one as the Lord has apportioned. As God has called each one, thus let him live--and thus I order in all the churches.

Now concerning food sacrificed to idols, we know that "we all have knowledge." Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

In the [same] way also the Lord ordered those who proclaim the gospel to live from the gospel.

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a ringing brass gong or a clashing cymbal.

And if I have [the gift of] prophecy and I know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that [I can] remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

And if I parcel out all my possessions, and if I hand over my body in order that I will be burned, but do not have love, it benefits [me] nothing.

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

Love never ends. But if [there are] prophecies, they will pass away. If [there are] tongues, they will cease. If [there is] knowledge, it will pass away.

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

Pursue love, and strive for spiritual [gifts], but especially that you may prophesy.

If {we have put our hope} in Christ in this life only, we are of all people most pitiable.

Foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

Thus also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul"; the last Adam [became] a life-giving spirit.

All your [actions] must be done in love.

If anyone does not love the Lord, let him be accursed. O Lord, come!

My love [be] with all of you in Christ Jesus.

But I call upon God [as] witness against my life, that [in order to] spare you, I did not come again to Corinth.

For out of great distress and anguish of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not so that you may be caused to be sad, but so that you may know the love that I have especially for you.

Therefore I urge you to confirm [your] love for him.

to those on the one hand an odor from death to death, [and] to those on the other hand a fragrance from life to life. And who [is] qualified for these [things]?

who also makes us adequate [as] servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

always carrying around the death of Jesus in our body, in order that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

For we who are alive [are] continually being handed over to death because of Jesus, in order that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal flesh.

So then, death is at work in us, but life in you.

For indeed we who are in this tent groan, being burdened {for this reason, that} we do not want to be unclothed, but to be clothed, in order that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

for we live by faith, not by sight--

For the love of Christ controls us, [because we] have concluded this: that one died for all; as a result all died.

And he died for all, in order that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the one who died for them and was raised.

in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love without hypocrisy,

And what agreement [does the] temple of God [have] with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said, "I will live in them and will walk about [among them], and I will be their God and they will be my people."

I do not say [this] {to condemn you}, because I have already said that you are in our hearts, so that we die together and we live together.

But just as you excel in everything--in faith and in speaking and in knowledge and with all diligence and in the love from us [that is] in you--so may you excel in this grace also.

I am not saying [this] as a command, but proving the genuineness of your love by means of the diligence of others.

Therefore show to them the proof of your love and our boasting about you {openly before} the churches.

{Why}? Because I do not love you? God knows [I do]!

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

For indeed, he was crucified because of weakness, but he lives because of the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live together with him because of the power of God toward you.

Finally, brothers, rejoice, be restored, be encouraged, {be in agreement}, be at peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit [be] with all of you.

For you have heard about my former way of life in Judaism, that to an extraordinary degree I was persecuting the church of God, and trying to destroy it,

But when I saw that they were not being straightforward with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in the presence of [them] all, "If you, [although you] are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you try to compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?"

For through the law I died to the law, in order that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ,

and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me, and that [life] I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Now [it is] clear that no one is justified in the sight of God by the law, because "the one who is righteous will live by faith."

But the law is not from faith, but "the one who does these [things] will live by them."

Therefore [is] the law opposed to the promises of God? May it never be! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, certainly righteousness would have been from the law.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not let your freedom [become] an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

For the whole law is fulfilled in one statement, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

But I say, live by the Spirit, and you will never carry out the desire of the flesh.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

If we live by the Spirit, we must also follow the Spirit.

because the one who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, [that] we should be holy and blameless before him in love,

Because of this I also, hearing of {your faith} in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,

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

[that] Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith (you having been firmly rooted and established in love),

and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, in order that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

Therefore I, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you to live in a manner worthy of the calling with which you were called:

with all humility and gentleness, with patience, putting up with one another in love,

But speaking the truth in love, we are to grow into him [with reference to] all [things], who is the head, Christ,

from whom the whole body, joined together and held together by every supporting ligament, according to the working by measure of each single part, the growth of the body makes for the building up of itself in love.

being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance [that] is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,

[that] you take off, according to your former way of life, the old man, who is being destroyed according to deceitful desires,

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.

for you were formerly darkness, but now [you are] light in the Lord. Live like children of light

Therefore, consider carefully how you live, not as unwise but as wise,

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

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

Only you also, each one [of you], must thus love his own wife as himself, and the wife {must respect} her husband.

"in order that it may be well with you, and you may {live a long time} on the earth."

Peace to the brothers and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Grace [be] with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ in incorruptibility.

And this I pray: that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

The latter [do so] from love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel.

according to my eager expectation and hope, that I will be put to shame in nothing, but with all boldness, even now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether through life or through death.

For to me to live [is] Christ and to die [is] gain.

But if [it is] to live in the flesh, this [is] fruitful work for me, and which I will prefer [I do] not know.

Therefore, if [there is] any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion,