they place their felicity in daily pleasure: they are a vile scandal to religion: when they are present at your love-feasts they indulge their luxury:

they are a disgrace to your love-feasts, they indulge themselves at your festivals without reserve: clouds without water, transported with every wind: trees whose fruit soon withers and is useless, twice dead and rooted up:

observing as you do, the days, the moons, the feasts and years.

Let no man therefore condemn you for meats or drinks, or in respect of feasts, or new moons, or sabbaths:

they affect the uppermost place at feasts, the principal chair in the synagogues,

and to have the first seats in their synagogues, and at their feasts:

for if you only love those, who love you, where's the obligation? the very heathen return love for love.

Jesus said to him the third time, Simon son of Jonas, do you love me? Peter was grieved at his asking him the third time, "do you love me?" and he said to him, Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you. Jesus said to him, feed my sheep.

Fear is a stranger to love; for perfect loves excludes all fear: since pain is the object of fear, he that is affected with fear, cannot be sincere in his love.

if a man says he loves God, and yet hates his brother, he is a lyar: for he that does not love his brother, who is before his eyes, how can he love God who is invisible?

a new commandment I give unto you, "that ye love one another; that you would have the same love for one another as I have had for you."

your love to me will be in keeping my commandments: even as I love my father by keeping his commandments.

So when they had dined, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon son of Jonas, do you love me more than these do? yes, Lord, said he, you know that I love you. Jesus reply'd, feed my lambs.

then he ask'd him the second time, Simon son of Jonas do you love me? yes, Lord, said he; you know that I love you. Jesus reply'd, feed my sheep.

may the Lord make you increase and abound in mutual love, in love towards all men, as we do towards you:

As to brotherly love, I have no occasion to write about it, God himself having instructed you to love one another.

but if you love only them who love you, what reward can ye have? do not the heathens themselves do as much?

Love not the world, nor let worldly things engage your affections. he that is worldly affected is a stranger to divine love.

as for us, we know, that we have passed from a state of death to that of life, because we love our brethren: he that does not love his brother, is in a destructive state.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God.

no man hath ever seen God. if we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and our love for him is then sincere.

besides, 'tis a commandment we have receiv'd from him, that he who would love God, must love his brother also.

by this we may know that we love the children of God, if we love God, and keep his commandments.

and to love him with all the heart, with all the understanding, with all the soul, with all its faculties, and to love one's neighbour as one's self is more acceptable than all the offerings and sacrifices in the world.

wherefore, I tell you, her sins, which are numerous, are forgiven; and that is the reason of all this love: but his love is less, to whom less is forgiven.

Now before the feast of the passover, Jesus perceiving that his hour was come, when he was to pass out of this world, and go to the father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.

he that hath received my commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loves me: and he that loves me, shall be beloved by my father, and I will love him, and shew my self unto him.

as the father has loved me, and I have loved you: so do you persevere in your love to me.

to them I have declared thy name, and will declare it: that thou mayst love them as thou hast loved me, and I have loved them."

and what heightens his love, was this, that it was not we who first loved God, but it was he that first loved us, and sent his son to expiate our sins.

Jesus answered him, he that loves me, will observe my precepts: and my father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

this is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.

then it was that God, who is rich in mercy, thro' his great love, wherewith he loved us,

You husband, love your spouse, even as Christ loved the church, and laid down his life for her:

in like manner ought men to love their wives, as their own bodies: "he that loves his wife, loveth himself."

but he that observes his precepts, loves God with a true and perfect love: 'tis by this we know that we are truly christians.

beloved, if God so loved us, we ought to love one another.

and we have known, and are convinced that God hath loved us. God is love; and he that cultivates social affection, dwelleth in God, and God in him.

let us love him; since he first loved us.

Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Messiah, is born of God: and every one that loves the father, will likewise be affected with love to his son.