They are blots on your love feasts while they feast with you, daringly caring for no one but themselves; rainless clouds swept along by winds; leafless trees that bear no fruit, doubly dead, uprooted;

The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and celebrate with feasts and the sending of gifts to one another, because these two prophets had tormented the inhabitants of the earth.

and they like the places of honor at feasts and the front seats in synagogues,

Stop letting anyone pass judgment on you in matters of eating and drinking, or in the matter of annual or monthly feasts or sabbaths.

So we know by experience and trust the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever continues to love continues in union with God and God in union with him.

There is no fear in love, and perfect love drives out fear, because fear pertains to punishment, and no one who is subject to fear has attained perfection in love.

If anyone says, "I love God," and yet habitually 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.

For the third time Jesus asked him, "Simon, son of John, do you really tenderly love me?" Peter was hurt because Jesus the third time asked him, "Do you really tenderly love me?" So he answered Him, "Lord, you know everything; you know that I do tenderly love you." Jesus said to him, "Then feed my sheep.

Now if you practice loving only those who love you, what credit do you get for that? Why, even notorious sinners practice loving those who love them.

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 loves himself is far more than all the burnt-offerings and sacrifices."

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

So in my own case, I will most happily spend my money and myself for your sakes. If I love you much more than I love others, am I to be loved less by you?

May the Lord make you increase and overflow in love for one another and for all men, as my love for you does,

Now as to brotherly love, you have no need of anyone's writing you, for you have yourselves been taught by God to love one another,

lacking in love for kinsmen, irreconcilable, slanderers, having no self-control, savage, lacking in love for the good,

Since you have purified your souls by obeying the truth, in sincere love for the brotherhood you must love one another heartily and fervently,

Above everything else keep your love for one another fervent, because love covers up a multitude of sins.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love our brothers. Whoever does not continue to love continues still in death.

Whoever does not love has never come to know God by experience, because God is love.

This is how we can be sure that we love the children of God, by continuing to love God and to obey His commands.

Now love means this, that we keep on living in accordance with His commands. The command is this, that we continue to live in love.

If you continue to keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain in His love.

Love never does a wrong to one's neighbor; so love is the perfect satisfaction of the law.

Love is so patient and so kind; love never boils with jealousy; it never boasts, is never puffed with pride;

And so these three, faith, hope, and love endure, but the greatest of them is love.

So I have thought it necessary to urge these brothers to visit you ahead of me and get your promised love-offering ready beforehand, so as to have it ready as a real love-offering, not as one grasped and grudgingly given.

Before the Passover feast started, Jesus knew that His time had come for Him to leave the world and go to the Father, and as He had loved His own in the world He loved them to the last.

Whoever continues to hold and keep my commands is the one who really loves me, and whoever really loves me will be loved by my Father; yes, I will love him myself and will make myself real to him."

Stop loving the world, or the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, there is no love for the Father in his heart,

Dearly beloved, let us practice loving one another, because love originates with God, and everyone who practices loving is a child of God and knows God by experience.

In this way is seen the true love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

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

This is the way married men ought to love their wives, as they do their own bodies. The married man who loves his wife is really loving himself,

Listen, my dearly loved brothers. Has not God chosen the poor of the world to be rich in faith and to possess the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?

Dear children, let us stop loving with words or lips alone, but let us love with actions and in truth.

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

No one has ever seen God; yet if we practice loving one another, God remains in union with us, and our love for Him attains perfection in our hearts,

We love, because He loved us first.

For if you practice loving only those who love you, what reward will you get? Do not even the tax-collectors practice that?

Jesus answered him, "If anyone really loves me, he will observe my teaching, and my Father will love him, and both of us will come in face-to-face fellowship with him; yes, we will make our special dwelling place with him.

for the Father tenderly loves you Himself, because you now tenderly love me and now believe that I have come from the Father.

Stop owing anybody anything, except the obligation to love one another, for whoever practices loving others has perfectly satisfied the law.

and practice living in love, just as Christ loved you too and gave Himself for you as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

You married men must love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her,

But each one of you married men must love his wife as he loves himself, and the married woman, too, must respect her husband.