Who will come between us and the love of Christ? Will trouble, or pain, or cruel acts, or the need of food or of clothing, or danger, or the sword?

But we are able to overcome all these things and more through his love.

Or things on high, or things under the earth, or anything which is made, will be able to come between us and the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Even as it is said, I had love for Jacob, but for Esau I had hate.

Let love be without deceit. Be haters of what is evil; keep your minds fixed on what is good.

Be kind to one another with a brother's love, putting others before yourselves in honour;

Be in debt for nothing, but to have love for one another: for he who has love for his neighbour has kept all the law.

And this, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not put to death, Do not take what is another's, Do not have desire for what is another's, and if there is any other order, it is covered by this word, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

Love does no wrong to his neighbour, so love makes the law complete.

And if because of food your brother is troubled, then you are no longer going on in the way of love. Do not let your food be destruction to him for whom Christ went into death.

So when I have done this, and have given them this fruit of love, I will go on by you into Spain.

Now I make request to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that you will be working together with me in your prayers to God for me;

Give my love to Prisca and Aquila, workers with me in Christ Jesus,

And say a kind word to the church which is in their house. Give my love to my dear Epaenetus, who is the first fruit of Asia to Christ.

Give my love to Mary, who gave much care to you.

Give my love to Andronicus and Junia, my relations, who were in prison with me, who are noted among the Apostles, and who were in Christ before me.

Give my love to Ampliatus, who is dear to me in the Lord,

Give my love to Urbanus, a worker in Christ with us, and to my dear Stachys.

Give my love to Apelles, who has the approval of Christ. Say a kind word to those who are of the house of Aristobulus.

Give my love to Herodion, my relation. Say a kind word to those of the house of Narcissus, who are in the Lord.

Give my love to Tryphaena and Tryphosa, workers in the Lord. Give my love to my dear Persis, who did much work in the Lord.

Give my love to Rufus, one of the Lord's selection, and to his mother and mine.

Give my love to Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers who are with them.

Give my love to Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.

Give one another a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ send their love to you.

Timothy, who is working with me, sends his love to you, so do Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my relations.

I, Tertius, who have done the writing of this letter, send love in the Lord.

Gaius, with whom I am living, whose house is open to all the church, sends his love, so does Erastus, the manager of the accounts of the town, and Quartus, the brother.

Where is the wise? where is he who has knowledge of the law? where is the man of this world who has a love of discussion? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

But as it says in the holy Writings, Things which the eye saw not, and which had not come to the ears or into the heart of man, such things as God has made ready for those who have love for him.

What is your desire? is my coming to be with punishment, or is it to be in love and a gentle spirit?

Now about things offered to images: we all seem to ourselves to have knowledge. Knowledge gives pride, but love gives true strength.

But if anyone has love for God, God has knowledge of him.

If I make use of the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am like sounding brass, or a loud-tongued bell.

And if I have a prophet's power, and have knowledge of all secret things; and if I have all faith, by which mountains may be moved from their place, but have not love, I am nothing.

And if I give all my goods to the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it is of no profit to me.

Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride;

Love's ways are ever fair, it takes no thought for itself; it is not quickly made angry, it takes no account of evil;

Love has the power of undergoing all things, having faith in all things, hoping all things.

Though the prophet's word may come to an end, tongues come to nothing, and knowledge have no more value, love has no end.

But now we still have faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

Go after love; still desiring to have the things which the Spirit gives, but most of all that you may have the prophet's power.

Let all you do be done in love.

The churches of Asia send their love to you. So do Aquila and Prisca, with the church which is in their house.

All the brothers send their love to you. Give one another a holy kiss.

I, Paul, send you these words of love in my writing.

If any man has not love for the Lord, let him be cursed. Maran atha (our Lord comes).

My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. So be it.

For out of much trouble and pain of heart and much weeping I sent my letter to you; not to give you sorrow, but so that you might see how great is the love which I have to you.

For which cause my desire is that you will make your love to him clear by your acts.

For it is the love of Christ which is moving us; because we are of the opinion that if one was put to death for all, then all have undergone death;

In a clean heart, in knowledge, in long waiting, in being kind, in the Holy Spirit, in true love,

And his love to you is the more increased by his memory of you all, how you gave way to his authority, and how you took him to your hearts with fear and honour.

And that as you are full of every good thing, of faith, of the word, of knowledge, of a ready mind, and of love to us, so you may be full of this grace in the same way.

I am not giving you an order, but using the ready mind of others as a test of the quality of your love.

Make clear then to them, as representatives of the churches, the quality of your love, and that the things which we have said about you are true.

While their hearts go out to you in love and in prayer for you, because of the great grace of God which is in you.

But I have a fear, that in some way, as Eve was tricked by the deceit of the snake, your minds may be turned away from their simple and holy love for Christ.

Why? because I have no love for you? let God be judge.

And I will gladly give all I have for your souls. If I have the more love for you, am I to be loved the less?

Let this be my last word, brothers; be glad; be complete; be comforted; be of the same mind; be at peace with one another: and the God of love and peace will be with you.

All the saints send their love to you.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the harmony of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.

I have been put to death on the cross with Christ; still I am living; no longer I, but Christ is living in me; and that life which I now am living in the flesh I am living by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who in love for me, gave himself up for me.

Because in Christ Jesus, having circumcision or not having circumcision are equally of no profit; but only faith working through love.

Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another.

For all the law is made complete in one word, even in this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,

Brothers, if a man is taken in any wrongdoing, you who are of the Spirit will put such a one right in a spirit of love; keeping watch on yourself, for fear that you yourself may be tested.

Even as he made selection of us in him from the first, so that we might be holy and free from all evil before him in love:

But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us,

So that Christ may have his place in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and based in love,

And to have knowledge of the love of Christ which is outside all knowledge, so that you may be made complete as God himself is complete.

With all gentle and quiet behaviour, taking whatever comes, putting up with one another in love;

But saying true words in love, may come to full growth in him, who is the head, even Christ;

Through whom all the body, being rightly formed and united together, by the full working of every part, is increased to the building up of itself in love.

That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;

And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.

Husbands, have love for your wives, even as Christ had love for the church, and gave himself for it;

Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself:

But do you, everyone, have love for his wife, even as for himself; and let the wife see that she has respect for her husband.

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

Grace be with all those who have true love for our Lord Jesus Christ.

For God is my witness, how my love goes out to you all in the loving mercies of Christ Jesus.

These do it from love, conscious that I am responsible for the cause of the good news:

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,

Make my joy complete by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in harmony and of one mind;

Give words of love to every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me send you their love.

All the saints send their love to you, specially those who are of Caesar's house.

After hearing of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have for all the saints,

And who, himself, made clear to us your love in the Spirit.

Who has made us free from the power of evil and given us a place in the kingdom of the Son of his love;

So that their hearts may be comforted, and that being joined together in love, they may come to the full wealth of the certain knowledge of the secret of God, even Christ,

And more than all, have love; the only way in which you may be completely joined together.

Husbands, have love for your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Aristarchus, my brother-prisoner, sends his love to you, and Mark, a relation of Barnabas (about whom you have been given orders: if he comes to you, be kind to him),

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you his love, ever taking thought for you in his prayers, that you may be complete and fully certain of all the purpose of God.

Luke, our well-loved medical friend, and Demas, send you their love.

Give my love to the brothers in Laodicea and to Nymphas and the church in their house.

I, Paul, give you this word of love in my handwriting. Keep in memory that I am a prisoner. Grace be with you.