1 Corinthians 13:13

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¹³So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

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1 Corinthians 16:14

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¹⁴^(A)Let all that you do be done in love.

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Colossians 3:14

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¹⁴And above all these put on ^(A)love, which ^(B)binds everything together in ^(C)perfect harmony.

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1 Corinthians 13:1-8

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The Way of Love

13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. ²And if I have ^(A)prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, ^(B)so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ³^(C)If I give away all I have, and ^(D)if I deliver up my body to be burned,^[a] but have not love, I gain nothing.

⁴^(E)Love is patient and ^(F)kind; love ^(G)does not envy or boast; it ^(H)is not arrogant ⁵or rude. It ^(I)does not insist on its own way; it ^(J)is not irritable or resentful;^[b] ⁶it ^(K)does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but ^(L)rejoices with the truth. ⁷^(M)Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, ^(N)endures all things.

⁸Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

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1 Corinthians 13:3 Some manuscripts deliver up my body [to death] that I may boast
1 Corinthians 13:5 Greek irritable and does not count up wrongdoing

1 John 4:7-18

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God Is Love

⁷Beloved, ^(A)let us love one another, for love is from God, and ^(B)whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. ⁸^(C)Anyone who does not love does not know God, because ^(D)God is love. ⁹In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that ^(E)God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. ¹⁰In this is love, ^(F)not that we have loved God ^(G)but that he loved us and sent his Son to be ^(H)the propitiation for our sins. ¹¹Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. ¹²^(I)No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and ^(J)his love is perfected in us.

¹³^(K)By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. ¹⁴And ^(L)we have seen and testify that ^(M)the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of ^(N)the world. ¹⁵^(O)Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. ¹⁶So ^(P)we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. ^(Q)God is love, and ^(R)whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. ¹⁷By this ^(S)is love perfected with us, so that ^(T)we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because ^(U)as he is so also are we in this world. ¹⁸There is no fear in love, but ^(V)perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not ^(W)been perfected in love.

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Galatians 5:6

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⁶For in Christ Jesus ^(A)neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but ^(B)only faith working through love.

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Mark 12:29-31

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²⁹Jesus answered, “The most important is, ^(A)‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, ^(B)the Lord is one. ³⁰And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ ³¹^(C)The second is this: ^(D)‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment ^(E)greater than these.”

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Philippians 1:9

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⁹And it is my prayer that ^(A)your love may abound more and more, ^(B)with knowledge and all discernment,

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1 Timothy 1:5

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⁵The aim of our charge is love ^(A)that issues from a pure heart and ^(B)a good conscience and ^(C)a sincere faith.

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2 John 4-6

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Walking in Truth and Love

⁴^(A)I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as we were commanded by the Father. ⁵And now I ask you, dear lady—^(B)not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning—^(C)that we love one another. ⁶And ^(D)this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just ^(E)as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.

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1 John 2:10

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¹⁰Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him^[a] there is no ^(A)cause for stumbling.

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1 John 2:10 Or it

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Lamentations 3:21-26

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²¹But this I call to mind,
and ^(A)therefore I have hope:

²²^(B)The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;^[a]
    ^(C)his mercies never come to an end;
²³they are new ^(D)every morning;
    ^(E)great is your faithfulness.
²⁴^(F)“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,
    ^(G)“therefore I will hope in him.”

²⁵The Lord is good to those who ^(H)wait for him,
to the soul who seeks him.
²⁶^(I)It is good that one should wait quietly
for the salvation of the Lord.

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Lamentations 3:22 Syriac, Targum; Hebrew Because of the steadfast love of the Lord, we are not cut off

1 Thessalonians 5:8

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⁸But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, ^(A)having put on the breastplate of ^(B)faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.

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Galatians 5:13-22

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¹³For you were called to freedom, brothers. ^(A)Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love ^(B)serve one another. ¹⁴For ^(C)the whole law is fulfilled in one word: ^(D)“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” ¹⁵But if you ^(E)bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.

Keep in Step with the Spirit

¹⁶But I say, ^(F)walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify ^(G)the desires of the flesh. ¹⁷For ^(H)the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, ^(I)to keep you from doing the things you want to do. ¹⁸But if you are ^(J)led by the Spirit, ^(K)you are not under the law. ¹⁹Now ^(L)the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, ²⁰idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, ^(M)divisions, ²¹envy,^[a] drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that ^(N)those who do^[b] such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. ²²But ^(O)the fruit of the Spirit is ^(P)love, joy, peace, patience, ^(Q)kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

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Galatians 5:21 Some manuscripts add murder
Galatians 5:21 Or make a practice of doing

1 John 5:1-5

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Overcoming the World

5 ^(A)Everyone who believes that ^(B)Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and ^(C)everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. ²^(D)By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. ³For ^(E)this is the love of God, that we ^(F)keep his commandments. And ^(G)his commandments are not burdensome. ⁴For ^(H)everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—^(I)our faith. ⁵Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes ^(J)that Jesus is the Son of God?

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2 Corinthians 5:10

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¹⁰For ^(A)we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, ^(B)so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.

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1 Corinthians 8:3

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³But if anyone loves God, ^(A)he is known by God.^[a]

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1 Corinthians 8:3 Greek him

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Colossians 1:27

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²⁷^(A)To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are ^(B)the riches of the glory of ^(C)this mystery, which is Christ in you, ^(D)the hope of glory.

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1 Peter 1:21

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²¹^(A)who through him are believers in God, ^(B)who raised him from the dead and ^(C)gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

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1 John 3:9

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⁹^(A)No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's^[a] seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God.

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1 John 2:14

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¹⁴I write to you, fathers,
    because you know ^(A)him who is from the beginning.
I write to you, young men,
    because ^(B)you are strong,
    and the word of God abides in you,
    and you have overcome the evil one.