being doomed to receive a requital for their guilt. They reckon it pleasure to feast daintily in broad daylight. They are spots and blemishes, while feeding luxuriously at their love-feasts, and banqueting with you.

These men--sunken rocks! --are those who share the pleasure of your love-feasts, unrestrained by fear while caring only for themselves; clouds without water, driven away by the winds; trees that cast their fruit, barren, doubly dead, uprooted;

"If you love those who love you, what credit is it to you? Why, even bad men love those who love them.

Love is patient and kind. Love knows neither envy nor jealousy. Love is not forward and self-assertive, nor boastful and conceited.

and as for you, may the Lord teach you to love one another and all men, with a growing and a glowing love, resembling our love for you.

And, as for us, we know the love which God has for us, and we confide in it. God is love, and he who continues to love continues in union with God, and God continues in union with him.

Love has in it no element of fear; but perfect love drives away fear, because fear involves pain, and if a man gives way to fear, there is something imperfect in his love.

So too married men ought to love their wives as much as they love themselves. He who loves his wife loves himself.

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

Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If any one loves the world, there is no love in his heart for the Father.

Dear friends, let us love one another; for love has its origin in God, and every one who loves has become a child of God and is beginning to know God.

This is love indeed--we did not love God, but He loved us and sent His Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

If any one says that he loves God, while he hates his brother man, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother man whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.

and To love Him with all one's heart, with all one's understanding, and with all one's strength, and to love one's fellow man no less than oneself, is far better than all our whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices."

If you obey my commands, you will continue in my love, as I have obeyed my Father's commands and continue in His love.

For if you love only those who love you, what reward have you earned? Do not even the tax-gatherers do that?

And so there remain Faith, Hope, Love--these three; and of these the greatest is Love.

I have thought it absolutely necessary therefore to request these brethren to visit you before I myself come, and to make sure beforehand that the gift of love which you have already promised may be ready as a gift of love, and may not seem to have been something which I have extorted from you.

But on the subject of love for the brotherhood it is unnecessary for me to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another;

If, however, you are keeping the Law as supreme, in obedience to the Commandment which says "You are to love your fellow man just as you love yourself," you are acting rightly.

Now that, through your obedience to the truth, you have purified your souls for cherishing sincere brotherly love, you must love another heartily and fervently.

Above all continue to love one another fervently, for love throws a veil over a multitude of faults.

As for us, we know that we have already passed out of death into Life--because we love our brother men. He who is destitute of love continues dead.

He who is destitute of love has never had any knowledge of God; because God is love.

No one has ever yet seen God. If we love one another, God continues in union with us, and His love in all its perfection is in our hearts.

The fact that we love God Himself, and obey His commands, is a proof that we love God's children.

Now just before the Feast of the Passover this incident took place. Jesus knew that the time had come for Him to leave this world and go to the Father; and having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

He who has my commandments and obeys them--he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will clearly reveal myself to him."

I in them and Thou in me; that they may stand perfected in one; that the world may come to understand that Thou didst send me and hast loved them with the same love as that with which Thou hast loved me.

As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you: continue in my love.