"You have heard that they were told, 'You must love your neighbor and hate your enemy.'

But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for your persecutors,

For if you love only those who love you, what reward can you expect? Do not the very tax-collectors do that?

No slave can belong to two masters, for he will either hate one and love the other, or stand by one and make light of the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Honor your father and mother,' and 'You shall love your neighbor as you do yourself.' "

And he said to him, " 'You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, and your whole mind.'

There is a second like it: 'You must love your neighbor as you do yourself.'

and because of the increase of wickedness, most men's love will grow cold.

and you must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, your whole mind, and your whole strength.'

And this is the second: 'You must love your neighbor as you do yourself.' No other command is greater than these."

and to love him with one's whole heart, one's whole understanding, and one's whole strength, and to love one's neighbor as one's self is far more than all these burnt-offerings and sacrifices."

"But I tell you who hear me, love your enemies, treat those who hate you well,

If you love only those who love you, what merit is there in that? For even godless people love those who love them.

But love your enemies, and help them and lend to them, never despairing, and you will be richly rewarded, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind even to the ungrateful and the wicked.

He answered, " 'You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, your whole strength, and your whole mind,' and 'your neighbor as you do yourself.' "

But alas for you Pharisees! For you pay tithes on mint, rue, and every tiny herb, and disregard justice and the love of God. But you should have observed these, without neglecting the others.

Alas for you Pharisees! For you love to have the front seat in the synagogues and to be saluted with respect in public places.

No servant can belong to two masters, for he will either hate one and love the other, or he will stand by one and make light of the other. You cannot serve God and money!"

"Beware of the scribes who like to go about in long robes, and love to be saluted with respect in public places, and to have the front seats in the synagogues and the best places at banquets??47 men who eat up widows' houses and to cover it up make long prayers! They will get all the heavier sentence!"

but I know well that you have not the love of God in your hearts.

Jesus said to them, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I have come from God. I have not come of my own accord, but he has sent me.

I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you must love one another.

By this they will all know that you are my disciples??y your love for one another."

"If you really love me, you will observe my commands.

It is he who has my commands and observes them that really loves me, and whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and show myself to him."

Jesus answered, "Anyone who loves me will observe my teaching, and my Father will love him and we will come to him and live with him.

No one who does not love me will observe my teaching, and yet the teaching you are listening to is not mine but is that of him who has sent me.

but he is coming that the world may know that I love the Father and am doing what he has commanded me to do. Come, let us go away.

I have loved you just as the Father has loved me. You must retain my love.

If you keep my commands you will retain my love, just as I have observed the Father's commands and retain his love.

The command that I give you is to love one another just as I have loved you.

No one can show greater love than by giving up his life for his friends.

"What I command you to do is to love one another.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love what was its own. But it is because you do not belong to the world, but I have selected you from the world, that the world hates you.

for the Father loves you himself because you love me and believe that I have come from the Father.

I in union with them and you with me, so that they may be perfectly unified, and the world may recognize that you sent me and that you love them just as you loved me.

I have made your self known to them and I will do so still, so that the love which you have had for me may be in their hearts, and I may be there also."

When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, are you more devoted to me than these others are?" Peter said to him, "Yes, Master, you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Then feed my lambs!"

Again Jesus said to him a second time, "Simon, son of John, are you devoted to me?" He said to him, "Yes, Master, you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Then be a shepherd to my sheep!"

Jesus said to him a third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was hurt because the third time Jesus asked him if he loved him, and he answered, "Master, you know everything, you can see that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Then feed my sheep!

and hope will not disappoint us. For, through the holy Spirit that has been given us, God's love has flooded our hearts.

But God proves his love for us by the fact that Christ died for us when we were still sinners.

We know that in everything God works with those who love him, whom he has called in accordance with his purpose, to bring about what is good.

Who can separate us from Christ's love? Can trouble or misfortune or persecution or hunger or destitution or danger or the sword?

nor any supernatural forces either of height or depth will be able to separate us from the love God has shown in Christ Jesus our Lord!

Your love must be genuine. You must hate what is wrong, and hold to what is right.

Be affectionate in your love for the brotherhood, eager to show one another honor,

Owe nobody anything??xcept the duty of mutual love, for whoever loves his fellow-men has fully satisfied the Law.

For the commandments, "You must not commit adultery, You must not murder, You must not steal, You must not covet," and any other commandments there are, are all summed up in one saying, "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself."

Love never wrongs a neighbor, and so love fully satisfies the Law.

For if your brother's feelings are hurt by what you eat, your life is not governed by love. You must not, by what you eat, ruin a man for whom Christ died.

I beg you, brothers, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of the love that the Spirit inspires, join me in most earnest prayer to God for me.

But, as the Scripture says, there are things "Which no eye ever saw and no ear ever heard, And never occurred to the human mind, Which God has provided for those who love him."

About food that has been offered to idols, it is true, as you say, that we all have some knowledge on that matter. Knowledge gives people airs; love is what builds up character.

I will show you a far better way. If I can speak the languages of men and even of angels, but have no love, I am only a noisy gong or a clashing cymbal.

If I am inspired to preach and know all the secret truths and possess all knowledge, and if I have such perfect faith that I can move mountains, but have no love, I am nothing.

Even if I give away everything I own, and give myself up, but do it in pride, not love, it does me no good.

Love is patient and kind. Love is not envious or boastful. It does not put on airs.

Love will never die out. If there is inspired preaching, it will pass away. If there is ecstatic speaking, it will cease. If there is knowledge, it will pass away.

So faith, hope, and love endure. These are the great three, and the greatest of them is love.

You must pursue love, while you are cultivating the spiritual endowments, and especially inspired preaching.

Do everything with love.

A curse upon anyone who has no love for the Lord. Lord, come quickly!

My love be with you all through Christ Jesus.

It is Christ's love that controls me, for I have become convinced that as one has died for all, all have died,

through my purity of life, my knowledge, my patience, my kindness, my holiness of spirit, my genuine love,

Just as you excel in everything else??aith, expression, knowledge, perfect devotion, and the love we have awakened in you??ou must excel in this generous undertaking too.

I do not mean this as a command. I only want to test the genuineness of your love by the devotion of others.

So you must give proof to them before all the churches of your love, and justify my pride in you.

And why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do.

And I will be glad to spend all I have and all I am for your sake. Are you going to love me the less for loving you so intensely?

Now brothers, goodbye! Be what you ought to be, listen to my appeal, agree with one another, live in peace, and God the source of love and peace will be with you.

The blessing of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the participation in the holy Spirit be with you all.

For in union with Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor the want of it counts for anything, but only faith acting through love.

For you, brothers, have been called to freedom; only do not make your freedom an excuse for the physical, but in love be slaves to one another.

For the whole Law is summed up in one saying: "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself."

But what the Spirit produces is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Through him he chose us out before the creation of the world, to be consecrated and above reproach in his sight in love.

But God is so rich in mercy that because of the great love he had for us,

and through your faith to let Christ in his love make his home in your hearts. Your roots must be deep and your foundations strong,

and to understand Christ's love, so far beyond our understanding, so that you may be filled with the very fulness of God.

For it is under his control that the whole system, adjusted and united by each ligament of its equipment, develops in proportion to the functioning of each particular part, and so builds itself up through love.

You who are husbands must love your wives, just as Christ loves the church and gave himself for her,

That is the way husbands ought to love their wives??s if they were their own bodies; a man who loves his wife is really loving himself,

But each one of you must love his wife just as he loves himself, and the wife, too, must respect her husband.

God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give the brothers peace and love, with faith.

God's blessing be with all who have an unfailing love for our Lord Jesus Christ.

And it is my prayer that your love may grow richer and richer in knowledge and perfect insight,

These latter do it from love for me, for they know that God has put me where I am to defend our right to preach the good news.

So by whatever appeal there is in our relation to Christ, by whatever incentive there is in love, by whatever participation there is in the Spirit, whatever affection and sympathy,

make me perfectly happy by living in harmony, with the same attitude of love, with the same feeling and purpose.

for what we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love you have for all God's people,

and it is he who has told me of the love the Spirit has awakened in you.

that your hearts may be cheered. I want you to be united by love, and to have all the benefit of assured knowledge in coming to know Christ??3 that divine mystery in which all treasures of wisdom and knowledge are to be found.

And over all these put on love, which completes them and fastens them all together.

You who are husbands must love your wives and not be harsh to them.

But now that Timothy has just come back to me from you, and brought me good news of your faith and love, and told me how kindly you think of me and that you long to see me just as much as I long to see you,

May the Lord make your love for one another and for all men wide and full like my love for you,

You do not need to have anyone write to you about brotherly love, for you have yourselves been taught by God to love one another,

but we who belong to the day must be composed, wearing faith and love for a coat of mail, and helmeted with the hope of salvation.