Wherefore, having purified your souls by obeying the truth, through the Spirit, to unfeigned brotherly love, love one another, from a pure heart, fervently:

Treat all men with respect: love the brotherhood: fear God: honor the king.

And above all things, have fervent love to one another; for love will cover a multitude of sins.

Salute one another with a kiss of love. Peace to you all, who are in Christ Jesus.

and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love:

But whoever keeps his word, truly in this man the love of God is perfected. By this we know that we are in him.

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

Behold how great love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this reason, the world does not know us, because it did not know him.

For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

We know that we have passed away from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who loves not his brother, abides in death.

By this we have known the love of Christ, because he laid down his life for us; therefore we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

Whoever, therefore, has the goods of this world, and sees his brother in need, and yet shuts up his compassion from him, how abides the love of God in him?

My little children, let us not love in word, nor in tongue; but in deed, and in truth.

For this is his commandment, that we should believe on the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and should love one another as he gave us commandment.

Beloved, let us love one another; for love is from God: and every one who loves, has been begotten by God, and knows God.

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

By this the love of God was manifested to us, that God sent forth his Son, the only begotten, into the world, that we might live through him.

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

Beloved, if God so loved us, we, also, ought to love one another.

No one has seen God, at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is made perfect in us.

And we have known, and believed the love which God has in us. God is love; wherefore, he who abides in love, abides in God, and God in him.

By this, the love has been perfected in us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as he is, so are we in this world.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has torment: therefore, he who fears is not made perfect in love.

We love him, because he first loved us.

If any one say, Indeed I love God, and yet hate his brother, he is a liar: for he who loves not his brother, whom he has seen, how can he love God, whom he has not seen?

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

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not burdensome;

The elder, to Electa Cyria, and her children, whom I love sincerely; and not I only, but also all who have known the truth;

Favor, mercy, and peace, be with you, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, with truth and love.

And now I beseech you, Cyria, not as writing to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

And this is the love that we walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you have heard from the beginning, that you may walk in it;

The elder, to Gaius, the beloved, whom I love in the truth.

These have borne testimony to your love, in the presence of the congregation; whom, if you help forward on their journey, in a manner worthy of God, you will do well.

May mercy, and peace, and love, be multiplied to you.

These men are spots in love feasts, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear. They are clouds without water, carried about of winds: withered autumnal trees without fruit; twice dead; rooted out;

keep yourselves in the love of God, expecting the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, to eternal life.

Nevertheless, I have against you that you have lost your first love.

I know your works, and love, and service, and faith, and your patience, and that your last works are more than the first.

As many as I love, I reprove and correct; therefore, be zealous, and reform.