These are the men who are blots upon your 'Love-feasts,' when they feast together and provide without scruple for themselves alone. They are clouds without rain, driven before the winds; they are leafless trees without a vestige of fruit, dead through and through, torn up by the roots;

David, too, says--'May their feasts prove a snare and a trap to them--a hindrance and a retribution;

suffering themselves, as the penalty for the suffering that they have inflicted. They think that pleasure consists in the self-indulgence of the moment. They are a stain and a disgrace, indulging, as they do, in their wanton revelry, even while joining you at your feasts.

If you love only those who love you, what thanks will be due to you? Why, even the outcast love those who love them!

But if in love, then no longer as a result of obedience. Otherwise love would cease to be love.

But it is through the love of God that I am what I am, and the love that he showed me has not been wasted. No, I have toiled harder than any of them, and yet it was not I, but the love of God working with me.

And, moreover, we have learned to know, and have accepted as a fact, the love which God has for us. God is Love; and he who lives in love lives in God, and God in him.

There is no fear in love. No! Love, when perfect, drives out fear, for fear implies punishment, and the man who feels fear has not attained to perfect love.

If a man says 'I love God,' and yet hates his Brother, he is a liar; for the man who does not love his Brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

I give you a new commandment--Love one another; love one another as I have loved you.

And to 'love him with all one's heart, and with all one's understanding, and with all one's strength,' and to 'love one's neighbor as one loves oneself' is far beyond all 'burnt-offerings and sacrifices.'"

Do not love the world or what the world can offer. When any one loves the world, there is no love for the Father in him;

Dear friends, let us love one another, because Love comes from God; and every one who loves has received the new Life from God and knows God.

If you lay my commands to heart, you will remain in my love; just as I have laid the Father's commands to heart and remain in his love.

The second is this--'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost love thyself.' There is no commandment greater than these."

For, if you love only those who love you, what reward will you have? Even the tax-gatherers do this!

Love never wrongs a neighbor. Therefore Love fully satisfies the Law.

May God's blessing be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.

And for you, may the Lord fill you to overflowing with love for one another and for every one, just as we are filled with love for you;

As to love for the Brethren there is no need to write to you; for you have yourselves been taught by God to love one another;

treacherous, reckless, and puffed up with pride; they will love pleasure more than they love God;

Therefore, let us draw near boldly to the Throne of Love, to find pity and love for the hour of need.

Love is long-suffering, and kind; Love is never envious, never boastful, never conceited, never behaves unbecomingly;

Meanwhile Faith, Hope, and Love endure-these three, but the greatest of these is Love.

Above all things, let your love for one another be earnest, for 'Love throws a veil over countless sins.'

We know that we have passed out of Death into Life, because we love our Brothers. The man who does not love remains in a state of Death.

He who does not love has not learned to know God; for God is Love.

No human eyes have ever seen God, yet, if we love one another, God remains in union with us, and his love attains its perfection in us.

By this we know that we love God's Children--when we love God and carry out his commands.

And this is love--to live in obedience to the Father's commands. This is the Command as you learned from the first, to live in a spirit of love.

It is he who has my commands and lays them to heart that loves me; and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him."

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

That is how husbands ought to love their wives--as if they were their own bodies. A man who loves his wife is really loving himself;

His love is seen in this--not in our having loved God, but in his loving us and sending his Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins.