and lead lives of love, just as Christ loved you and gave himself up for you to be a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Whereas the aim of the Christian discipline is the love that springs from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from a sincere faith.

Now a jurist got up to tempt him. "Teacher," he said, "what am I to do to inherit life eternal?" He said to him, "What is written in the law? What do you read there?" He replied, "You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, with your whole strength, and with your whole mind. Also your neighbour as yourself."read more.
"A right answer!" said Jesus; "do that and you will live." Anxious to make an excuse for himself, however, he said to Jesus, "But who is my neighbour?" Jesus rejoined, "A man going down from Jerusalem to Jericho fell among robbers who stripped and belaboured him and then went off leaving him half-dead. Now it so chanced that a priest was going down the same road, but on seeing him he went past on the opposite side. So did a Levite who came to the spot; he looked at him but passed on the opposite side. However a Samaritan traveller came to where he was and felt pity when he saw him; he went to him, bound his wounds up, pouring oil and wine into them, mounted him on his own steed, took him to an inn, and attended to him. Next morning he took out a couple of shillings and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, 'Attend to him, and if you are put to any extra expense I will refund you on my way back.' Which of these three men, in your opinion, proved a neighbour to the man who fell among the robbers?" He said, "The man who took pity on him." Jesus said to him, "Then go and do the same."

Let all you do be done in love.

as we recall your active faith and labour of love and patient hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

Let your love be a real thing, with a loathing for evil and a bent for what is good.

But the harvest of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, good temper, kindliness, generosity, fidelity,

This is my command: you are to love one another as I have loved you.

Well then, whatever you would like men to do to you, do just the same to them; that is the meaning of the Law and the prophets.

As you would like men to do to you, so do to them.

And it is my prayer that your love may be more and more rich in knowledge and all manner of insight, enabling you to have a sense of what is vital,

I give you a new command, to love one another ??as I have loved you, you are to love one another.

Let your brotherly love continue.

Do honour to all, love the brotherhood, reverence God, honour the emperor.

If you really fulfil the royal law laid down by scripture, You must love your neighbour as yourself, well and good;