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.

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,

The love consists not in our having loved God, but in his loving us and sending his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

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?

and lead loving lives, just as Christ loved you and gave himself for you, as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

This is how we can be sure that we love the children of God: it is by loving God and obeying his commands.

Which will you have? Shall I come to you with a stick, or in a loving and gentle spirit?

for we can never forget before our God and Father your energetic faith, your loving service, and your unwavering expectation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

But they will be saved through motherhood, if they continue to have faith and to be loving and holy, and sensible as well.

so as to train the younger women to be loving wives and mothers,

Finally, you must all be harmonious, sympathizing, loving, tender-hearted, modest,

For loving God means obeying his commands, and his commands are not burdensome,

"Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace but a sword.

And may the Lord of peace himself always give you peace in every way. The Lord be with you all.

Do you think I have come to bring peace to the earth? Not peace, I tell you, but discord!