You have heard the saying, 'You must love your neighbour and hate your enemy.'

But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

For if you love only those who love you, what reward do you get for that? do not the very taxgatherers do as much?

No one can serve two masters: either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will stand by the one and despise the other ??you cannot serve both God and Mammon.

honour your father and mother, and you must love your neighbour as yourself."

He replied, "You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, and with your whole mind.

There is a second like it: you must love your neighbour as yourself.

And in most of you love will grow cold by the increase of iniquity;

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

The second is this: You must love your neighbour as yourself. There is no other command greater than these."

Also, to love him with the whole heart, with the whole understanding, and with the whole strength, and to love one's neighbour as oneself ??that is far more than all holocausts and sacrifices."

I tell you, my hearers, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you:

If you love only those who love you, what credit is that to you? Why, even sinful men love those who love them.

No, you must love your enemies and help them, you must lend to them without expecting any return; then you will have a rich reward, you will be sons of the Most High for he is kind even to the ungrateful and the evil.

As they were unable to pay, he freely forgave them both. Tell me, now, which of them will love him most?"

Therefore I tell you, many as her sins are, they are forgiven, for her love is great; whereas he to whom little is forgiven has but little love."

He replied, "You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, with your whole strength, and with your whole mind. Also your neighbour as yourself."

But woe to you Pharisees! you tithe mint and rue and every vegetable, but justice and the love of God you disregard; these latter you ought to have practised ??without omitting the former.

Woe to you Pharisees! you love the front bench in the synagogues and salutations in the marketplaces.

No servant can serve two masters: either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will stand by the one and despise the other, you cannot serve both God and Mammon."

but I know there is no love to God in you;

Said Jesus, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I came here from God; I did not come of my own accord, I was sent by him.

so the sisters sent to him, saying, "Lord, he whom you love is ill."

I give you a new command, to love one another ??as I have loved you, you are to love one another.

By this everyone will recognize that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another."

If you love me you will keep my commands,

He who possesses my commands and obeys them is he who loves me, and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and appear to him."

Jesus answered, "If anyone loves me he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up our abode with him.

He who does not love me does not obey my word; and what you hear me say is not my word but the word of the Father who sent me.

his coming will only serve to let the world see that I love the Father and that I am acting as the Father ordered. Rise, let us be going."

As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; remain within my love.

If you keep my commands you will remain within my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain within his love.

This is my command: you are to love one another as I have loved you.

To lay life down for his friends, man has no greater love than that.

This is what I command you, to love one another.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love what it owned; it is because you do not belong to the world, because I have chosen you from the world, that the world hates you.

so have I declared, so will I declare, thy Name to them, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them."

Then after breakfast Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than the others do?" "Why, Lord," he said, "you know I love you." "Then feed my lambs," said Jesus.

Again he asked him, for the second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" "Why, Lord," he said, "you know I love you." "Then be a shepherd to my sheep," said Jesus.

For the third time he asked him, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Now Peter was vexed at being asked a third time, "Do you love me?" So he replied; "Lord, you know everything, you can see I love you." Jesus said, "Then feed my sheep.

endurance produces character, and character produces hope ??5 a hope which never disappoints us, since God's love floods our hearts through the holy Spirit which has been given to us.

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

We know also that those who love God, those who have been called in terms of his purpose, have his aid and interest in everything.

What can ever part us from Christ's love? Can anguish or calamity or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or the sword?

no powers of the Height or of the Depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to part us from God's love in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Let your love be a real thing, with a loathing for evil and a bent for what is good.

Put affection into your love for the brotherhood; be forward to honour one another;

Be in debt to no man ??apart from the debt of love one to another. He who loves his fellow-man has fulfilled the law.

You must not commit adultery, you must not kill, you must not steal, you must not covet ??these and any other command are summed up in a single word, You must love your neighbour as yourself.

Love never wrongs a neighbour; that is why love is the fulfilment of the law.

If your brother is being injured because you eat a certain food, then you are no longer living by the rule of love. Do not let that food of yours ruin the man for whom Christ died.

Brothers, I beg of you, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love that the Spirit inspires, rally round me by praying to God for me;

No, as it is written, what no eye has ever seen, what no ear has ever heard, what never entered the mind of man, God has prepared all that for those who love him.

Which is it to be? Am I to come to you with a rod of discipline or with love and a spirit of gentleness?

With regard to food that has been offered to idols. Here, of course, 'we all possess knowledge'! Knowledge puffs up, love builds up.

Thus, I may speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but if I have no love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal;

I may prophesy, fathom all mysteries and secret lore, I may have such absolute faith that I can move hills from their place, but if I have no love, I count for nothing;

I may distribute all I possess in charity, I may give up my body to be burnt, but if I have no love, I make nothing of it.

Love is very patient, very kind. Love knows no jealousy; love makes no parade, gives itself no airs,

love is never glad when others go wrong, love is gladdened by goodness,

Love never disappears. As for prophesying, it will be superseded; as for 'tongues,' they will cease; as for knowledge, it will be superseded.

Thus 'faith and hope and love last on, these three,' but the greatest of all is love.

Make love your aim, and then set your heart on the spiritual gifts ??especially upon prophecy.

Let all you do be done in love.

'If any one has no love for the Lord, God's curse be on him! Maran atha!

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

For I wrote you in sore distress and misery of heart, with many a tear ??not to pain you but to convince you of my love, my special love for you.

So I beg you to reinstate him in your love.

for I am controlled by the love of Christ, convinced that as One has died for all, then all have died,

with innocence, insight, patience, kindness, the holy Spirit, unaffected love,

Now then, you are to the front in everything, in faith, in utterance, in knowledge, in all zeal, and in love for us ??do come to the front in this gracious enterprise as well.

I am not issuing any orders, only using the zeal of others to prove how sterling your own love is.

So let them have proof of how you can love, and of my reasons for being proud of you; it will be a proof read by the churches.

Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do.

And for your souls I will gladly spend my all and be spent myself. Am I to be loved the less because I love you more than others?

Now brothers, goodbye; mend your ways, listen to what I have told you, live in harmony, keep the peace; then 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 you all.

in Christ Jesus circumcision is not valid, neither is uncircumcision, but only faith active in love.

Brothers, you were called to be free; only, do not make your freedom an opening for the flesh, but serve one another in love.

For the entire Law is summed up in one word, in You must love your neighbour as yourself

But the harvest of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, good temper, kindliness, generosity, fidelity,

destining us in love to be his sons through Jesus Christ. Such was the purpose of his will,

Hence, as I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,

But, dead in trespasses as we were, God was so rich in mercy that for his great love to us

May you be so fixed and founded in love that you can grasp with all the saints what is the meaning of 'the Breadth,' 'the Length,' 'the Depth' and 'the Height,'

by knowing the love of Christ which surpasses all knowledge! May you be filled with the entire fulness of God!

with perfect modesty and gentleness, showing forbearance to one another patiently, zealous in love

we are to hold by the truth, and by our love to grow up wholly into Him. For He, Christ, is the head, and under him,

as the entire Body is welded together and compacted by every joint with which it is supplied, the due activity of each part enables the Body to grow and build itself up in love.

and lead lives of love, just as Christ loved you and gave himself up for you to be a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

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

So ought husbands to love their wives ??to love them as their own bodies (he who loves his wife loves himself).

However, let every man of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife reverence her husband.

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

Grace be with all who have an undying love for our Lord Jesus Christ.

And it is my prayer that your love may be more and more rich in knowledge and all manner of insight, enabling you to have a sense of what is vital,

the latter do it from love to me, knowing that I am set here to defend the gospel,

So by all the stimulus of Christ, by every incentive of love, by all your participation in the Spirit, by all your affectionate tenderness,

I pray you to give me the utter joy of knowing you are living in harmony, with the same feelings of love, with one heart and soul,

So then, my brothers, for whom I cherish love and longing, my joy and crown, this is how you must stand firm in the Lord, O my beloved.