So no one can call you to account for what you eat or drink, or do about annual or monthly feasts or Sabbaths.

If you love only those who love you, what merit is there in that? For even godless people love those who love them.

So we know and believe in the love God has for us. God is love, and whoever continues to love keeps in union with God, and God with him.

There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear. For fear suggests punishment and no one who feels fear has attained perfect love.

If anyone says, "I love God," and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

Jesus said to him a third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was hurt because the third time Jesus asked him if he loved him, and he answered, "Master, you know everything, you can see that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Then feed my sheep!

Do not love the world or what is in the world. If anyone loves the world, there is no love for the Father in his heart,

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God, and everyone who loves is a child of God and knows God.

I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you must love one another.

For if you love only those who love you, what reward can you expect? Do not the very tax-collectors do that?

Love never wrongs a neighbor, and so love fully satisfies the Law.

Love is patient and kind. Love is not envious or boastful. It does not put on airs.

So faith, hope, and love endure. These are the great three, and the greatest of them is love.

May the Lord make your love for one another and for all men wide and full like my love for you,

You do not need to have anyone write to you about brotherly love, for you have yourselves been taught by God to love one another,

Now that by obeying the truth you have purified your souls for sincere love of the brotherhood, you must love one another intensely and heartily,

Above all keep your love for one another strong, because love covers up a host of sins.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love is still in death.

Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.

No one has ever seen God; yet if we love one another, God keeps in union with us and love for him attains perfection in our hearts.

Love means this, that we be guided by his commands. The command, as you have heard from the beginning, is to be guided by love.

and to love him with one's whole heart, one's whole understanding, and one's whole strength, and to love one's neighbor as one's self is far more than all these burnt-offerings and sacrifices."

If you keep my commands you will retain my love, just as I have observed the Father's commands and retain his love.

It is he who has my commands and observes them that really loves me, and whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and show myself to him."

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.

I have loved you just as the Father has loved me. You must retain my love.