(A)Anyone who does not love does not know God, because (B)God is love.

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35 (A)The Father loves the Son and (B)has given all things into his hand.

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And now, Father, (A)glorify me in your own presence with the glory (B)that I had with you (C)before the world existed.

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And the Lord God planted a (A)garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

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So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise,[a] she took of its fruit (A)and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, (B)and he ate.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 3:6 Or to give insight

15 I will put enmity between you and the woman,
    and between your offspring[a] and (A)her offspring;
(B)he shall bruise your head,
    and you shall bruise his heel.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 3:15 Hebrew seed; so throughout Genesis

For God So Loved the World

16 “For (A)God so loved (B)the world,[a] (C)that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not (D)perish but have eternal life.

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Footnotes

  1. John 3:16 Or For this is how God loved the world

17 For (A)God did not send his Son into the world (B)to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

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and (A)hope does not put us to shame, because God's love (B)has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

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20 I have been (A)crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives (B)in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, (C)who loved me and (D)gave himself for me.

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A New Commandment

31 When he had gone out, Jesus said, (A)“Now is the Son of Man glorified, and (B)God is glorified in him. 32 If God is glorified in him, (C)God will also glorify him in himself, and (D)glorify him at once. 33 Little children, (E)yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me, and just (F)as I said to the Jews, so now I also say to you, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’ 34 (G)A new commandment (H)I give to you, (I)that you love one another: (J)just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35 (K)By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

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10 (A)Love one another with brotherly affection. (B)Outdo one another in showing honor.

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Marks of the True Christian

(A)Let love be genuine. (B)Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

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11 These things I have spoken to you, (A)that my joy may be in you, and that (B)your joy may be full.

12 (C)“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 (D)Greater love has no one than this, (E)that someone lay down his life for his friends.

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(For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.)

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

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11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.

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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. And 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. (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.

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

Love 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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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 13:3 Some manuscripts deliver up my body [to death] that I may boast
  2. 1 Corinthians 13:5 Greek irritable and does not count up wrongdoing

Bear One Another's Burdens

Brothers,[a] (A)if anyone is caught in any transgression, (B)you who are spiritual should restore him in (C)a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. (D)Bear one another's burdens, and (E)so fulfill (F)the law of Christ.

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 6:1 Or Brothers and sisters; also verse 18

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

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22 But (A)the fruit of the Spirit is (B)love, joy, peace, patience, (C)kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 (D)gentleness, (E)self-control; (F)against such things there is no law.

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Keep in Step with the Spirit

16 But I say, (A)walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify (B)the desires of the flesh. 17 For (C)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, (D)to keep you from doing the things you want to do. 18 But if you are (E)led by the Spirit, (F)you are not under the law.

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