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“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’
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But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
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For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Even the tax collectors, do they not do the same?
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“And when you pray, you are not to be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the street corners so that they will be seen by people. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full.
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“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.
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“The one who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and the one who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.
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Honor your father and mother; and You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
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And He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
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The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
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And they love the place of honor at banquets, and the seats of honor in the synagogues,
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And because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will become cold.
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Looking at him, Jesus showed love to him and said to him, “One thing you lack: go and sell all you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.”
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and 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.’
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The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
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and to love Him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, is much more than all the burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
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“But I say to you who hear, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
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If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.
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But love your enemies and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He Himself is kind to ungrateful and evil people.
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for he loves our nation, and it was he who built us our synagogue.”
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When they were unable to repay, he canceled the debts of both. So which of them will love him more?”
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For this reason I say to you, her sins, which are many, have been forgiven, for she loved much; but the one who is forgiven little, loves little.”
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And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”
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“But woe to you Pharisees! For you pay tithes of mint, rue, and every kind of garden herb, and yet you ignore justice and the love of God; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.
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Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the seat of honor in the synagogues and personal greetings in the marketplaces.
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No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.”
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Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were listening to all these things and were ridiculing Him.
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“Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and love personal greetings in the marketplaces, and chief seats in the synagogues and places of honor at banquets,
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“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life.
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And this is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the Light; for their deeds were evil.
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The Father loves the Son and has entrusted all things to His hand.
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For the Father loves the Son and shows Him all things that He Himself is doing; and the Father will show Him greater works than these, so that you will be amazed.
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but I know you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves.
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Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I came forth from God and am here; for I have not even come on My own, but He sent Me.
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For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it back.
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So the sisters sent word to Him, saying, “Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick.”
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(Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister, and Lazarus.)
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So the Jews were saying, “See how He loved him!”
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The one who loves his life loses it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.
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for they loved the approval of people rather than the approval of God.
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The Lord’s Supper
Now before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that His hour had come that He would depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.
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Lying back on Jesus’ chest was one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved.
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I am giving you a new commandment, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
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By this all people will know that you are My disciples: if you have love for one another.”
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“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
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The one who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and the one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will reveal Myself to him.”
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Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will follow My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our dwelling with him.
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The one who does not love Me does not follow My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me.
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You heard that I said to you, ‘I am going away, and I am coming to you.’ If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.
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but so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the Father commanded Me. Get up, let’s go from here.
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Just as the Father has loved Me, I also have loved you; remain in My love.
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If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.
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Disciples’ Relation to Each Other
“This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.
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Greater love has no one than this, that a person will lay down his life for his friends.
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This I command you, that you love one another.
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If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.
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for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came forth from the Father.
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I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and You loved them, just as You loved Me.
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Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.
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and I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”
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So when Jesus saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He *said to His mother, “Woman, behold, your son!”
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So she *ran and *came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and *said to them, “They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we do not know where they have put Him.”
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Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved *said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his outer garment (for he was stripped for work), and threw himself into the sea.
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The Love Question
Now when they had finished breakfast, Jesus *said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these?” He *said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He *said to him, “Tend My lambs.”
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He *said to him again, a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?” He *said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He *said to him, “Shepherd My sheep.”
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He *said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?” Peter was hurt because He said to 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, “Tend My sheep.
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Peter turned around and *saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them—the one who also had leaned back on His chest at the supper and said, “Lord, who is the one who is betraying You?”
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and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
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But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
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And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.
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Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or trouble, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
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But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.
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nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Just as it is written: “Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.”
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Love must be free of hypocrisy. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good.
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Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor,
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Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the Law.
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For this, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this saying, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
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Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the Law.
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For if because of food your brother or sister is hurt, you are no longer walking in accordance with love. Do not destroy with your choice of food that person for whom Christ died.
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Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,
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Greetings and Love Expressed
I recommend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea,
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but just as it is written: “Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, And which have not entered the human heart, All that God has prepared for those who love Him.”
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What do you desire? That I come to you with a rod, or with love and a spirit of gentleness?
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Take Care with Your Liberty
Now concerning food sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge makes one conceited, but love edifies people.
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but if anyone loves God, he is known by Him.
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The Excellence of Love
If I speak with the tongues of mankind and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
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If I have the gift of prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
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And if I give away all my possessions to charity, and if I surrender my body so that I may glory, but do not have love, it does me no good.
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Love is patient, love is kind, it is not jealous; love does not brag, it is not arrogant.
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Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away with; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away with.
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But now faith, hope, and love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
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Prophecy a Superior Gift
Pursue love, yet earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
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All that you do must be done in love.
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If anyone does not love the Lord, he is to be accursed. Maranatha!
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My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.
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Reaffirm Your Love
But I decided this for my own sake, that I would not come to you in sorrow again.
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For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not so that you would be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love which I have especially for you.
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Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.
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For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died;
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in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in genuine love,
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But just as you excel in everything, in faith, speaking, knowledge, and in all earnestness and in the love we inspired in you, see that you also excel in this gracious work.
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I am not saying this as a command, but as proving, through the earnestness of others, the sincerity of your love as well.
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Therefore, openly before the churches, show them the proof of your love and of our reason for boasting about you.
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Each one must do just as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
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Why? Because I do not love you? God knows that I do!
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I will most gladly spend and be expended for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
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Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice, mend your ways, be comforted, be like-minded, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
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The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.
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I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
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For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love.
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For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another through love.
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For the whole Law is fulfilled in one word, in the statement, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
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just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love
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For this reason I too, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which exists among you and your love for all the saints,
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But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
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so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
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and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled to all the fullness of God.
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with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
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but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, that is, Christ,
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from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.
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and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.
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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,
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So husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;
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Nevertheless, as for you individually, each husband is to love his own wife the same as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband.
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Peace be to the brothers and sisters, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love.
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And this I pray, that your love may overflow still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment,
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the latter do it out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel;
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Be like Christ
Therefore if there is any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion,
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make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose.
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Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
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since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love which you have for all the saints;
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and he also informed us of your love in the Spirit.
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that their hearts may be encouraged, having been knit together in love, and that they would attain to all the wealth that comes from the full assurance of understanding, resulting in a true knowledge of God’s mystery, that is, Christ Himself,
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In addition to all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity.
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Husbands, love your wives and do not become bitter against them.
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constantly keeping in mind your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father,
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But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us good news of your faith and love, and that you always think kindly of us, longing to see us just as we also long to see you,
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and may the Lord cause you to increase and overflow in love for one another, and for all people, just as we also do for you;
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Sanctification and Love
Finally then, brothers and sisters, we request and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received instruction from us as to how you ought to walk and please God (just as you actually do walk), that you excel even more.
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Now as to the love of the brothers and sisters, you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another;
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But since we are of the day, let’s be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation.
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and that you regard them very highly in love because of their work. Live in peace with one another.
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We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers and sisters, as is only fitting, because your faith is increasing abundantly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another grows ever greater.
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and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not accept the love of the truth so as to be saved.
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Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope by grace,
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May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the perseverance of Christ.
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But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from a sincere faith.
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and the grace of our Lord was more than abundant, with the faith and love which are found in Christ Jesus.
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But women will be preserved through childbirth—if they continue in faith, love, and sanctity, with moderation.
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not overindulging in wine, not a bully, but gentle, not contentious, free from the love of money.
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Let no one look down on your youthfulness, but rather in speech, conduct, love, faith, and purity, show yourself an example of those who believe.
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For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
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But flee from these things, you man of God, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.
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For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.
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Hold on to the example of sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.
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Now flee from youthful lusts and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
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For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
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treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
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Now you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance,
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in the future there is reserved for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved His appearing.
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for Demas, having loved this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
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Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, in perseverance.
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so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
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But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared,
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All who are with me greet you. Greet those who love us in the faith. Grace be with you all.
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Philemon’s Love and Faith
I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers,
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because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints;
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For I have had great joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.
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yet for love’s sake I rather appeal to you—since I am such a person as Paul, an old man, and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus—
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You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You With the oil of joy above Your companions.”
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For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward His name, by having served and by still serving the saints.
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and let’s consider how to encourage one another in love and good deeds,
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For whom the Lord loves He disciplines, And He punishes every son whom He accepts.”
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The Changeless Christ
Let love of the brothers and sisters continue.
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Make sure that your character is free from the love of money, being content with what you have; for He Himself has said, “I will never desert you, nor will I ever abandon you,”
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Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.
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Listen, my beloved brothers and sisters: did God not choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?
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If, however, you are fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
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and though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory,
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Since you have purified your souls in obedience to the truth for a sincere love of the brothers and sisters, fervently love one another from the heart,
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Honor all people, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king.
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For, “The one who desires life, to love and see good days, Must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.
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Keep Fervent in Your Love
Therefore, since Christ has suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same purpose, because the one who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,
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Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins.
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Greet one another with a kiss of love. Peace be to you all who are in Christ.
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and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love.
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abandoning the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the reward of unrighteousness;
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but whoever follows His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him:
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The one who loves his brother and sister remains in the Light, and there is nothing in him to cause stumbling.
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Do Not Love the World
Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
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Children of God Love One Another
See how great a love the Father has given us, that we would be called children of God; and in fact we are. For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know Him.
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By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother and sister.
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For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we are to love one another;
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We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers and sisters. The one who does not love remains in death.
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We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers and sisters.
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But whoever has worldly goods and sees his brother or sister in need, and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God remain in him?
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Little children, let’s not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.
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This is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded us.
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God Is Love
Beloved, let’s love one another; for love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
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The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
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By this the love of God was revealed in us, that God has sent His only Son into the world so that we may live through Him.
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In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
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Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
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No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.
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We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
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By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, we also are in this world.
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There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love.
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We love, because He first loved us.
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If someone says, “I love God,” and yet he hates his brother or sister, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother and sister whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
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And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God must also love his brother and sister.
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Overcoming the World
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves the child born of Him.
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By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and follow His commandments.
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For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome.
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Walk According to His Commandments
The elder to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not only I, but also all who know the truth,
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Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
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Now I ask you, lady, not as though I were writing to you a new commandment, but the one which we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.
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And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, that you are to walk in it.
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A Good Report
The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth.
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and they have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God.
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I wrote something to the church; but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, does not accept what we say.
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May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
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These are the ones who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, like shepherds caring only for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted;
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Keep Yourselves in the Love of God
But you, beloved, ought to remember the words that were spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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keep yourselves in the love of God, looking forward to the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
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and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and released us from our sins by His blood—
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But I have this against you, that you have left your first love.
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‘I know your deeds, and your love and faith, and service and perseverance, and that your deeds of late are greater than at first.
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Behold, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie—I will make them come and bow down before your feet, and make them know that I have loved you.
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Those whom I love, I rebuke and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent.
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And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life even when faced with death.
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Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral persons, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying.
