These, while feasting with you, are- spots in your love-feasts, feeding themselves without fear; they are clouds without water, driven along by winds; trees of autumn, without fruit, twice dead, torn up by the roots: -

And if you love them that love you, what thanks have you? for even sinners love those who love them.

He said to him a third time: Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me? Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, Do you love me? And he said to him: Lord, thou knowest all things, thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus said to him: Feed my sheep.

Love suffers long, and is kind; love envies not; love boasts not; is not vain,

And we have known and believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he that dwells in love, dwells in God, and God in him.

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

A new commandment I give to you, That you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

Love not the world, nor the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

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

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

If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love, even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

When, therefore, they had taken breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter: Simon, son of Jonah, Do you love me more than these? He said to him: Yes, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He said to him: Feed my lambs.

He said to him again a second time: Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me? He said to him: Yes, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He said to him: Be a shepherd to my sheep.

and to love him with the whole heart, and with the whole understanding, and with the whole soul, and with the whole strength, and to love one's neighbor as himself, is more than all whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices.

And he said to them in his teaching: Beware of the scribes, who love to walk in robes, and love salutations in the markets,

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the publicans the same?

Love works no evil to our neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law.

But with respect to brotherly love, you have no need that I write to you: for you yourselves are taught of God to love one another;

That they may teach the young women to be sober-minded, to love their husbands, to love their children,

Having purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit, to unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another with a pure heart fervently,

And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the great est of these is love.

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

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and his love is perfected in us.

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

Now before the feast of the passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come that he must go out of this world to his Father; and having loved his own that were in the world, he loved them to the end.

He that has my commandments and keeps them, he it is that loves me; and he that loves me shall be loved by my Father; and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love.

So ought men to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself;

In this is love; not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins.