These are in your feasts of love, as sunken rocks; though joining in your banquet, they feed themselves fearlessly; clouds without water carried about by the winds; trees untimely withering, fruitless, twice dead, rooted up;

And if ye love them that love you, what thanks are due to you? for even sinners love those who love them.

Love is long-suffering, is kind; love envieth not; love is no vain boaster, is not inflated [with pride],

Love not the world, neither the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

And we have known and believed the love which God hath towards us. God is love; and he that abideth in love, abideth in God, and God in him.

Fear is not in this love; but the perfect love casteth out fear: for fear hath anguish. He that is afraid is not made perfect in love.

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

Jesus answered and said to him, If any man love me, he will observe my word: and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our abode with him.

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

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

Love doeth no ill to a neighbour; the fulfilment therefore of the law is love.

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greater of these is love.

and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength; and to love his neighbour as himself, is better than all burnt offerings, and sacrifices.

Now concerning brotherly love, I have no need to write unto you: for ye yourselves are divinely taught to love one another.

that they instruct the young women to be discreet, to love their husbands, to love their children,

But above all things have fervent love towards each other: for love will conceal a multitude of faults.

Beloved, let us love one another; because love is from God, and every one who loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

If any person say, I love God, yet hateth his brother, he is a liar; for he who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love the God whom he hath not seen?

Hereby 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, knowing that his hour was come, that he should go out of this world to the Father, having loved his peculiar people that are in the world, he loved them to the end.

He saith to him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said to him, Lord, thou knowest all things, thou knowest that I love thee! Jesus saith to him, Feed my sheep.

Just as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide in my love.

Herein is love, not that we have loved God, but that he hath loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiatory sacrifice for our sins.