Do everything in love.

Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.

There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been perfected in love.

Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.

Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs. Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs. . . .

And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.

And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

The goal of our instruction is the love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith.

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’

And I have made Your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love You have for Me may be in them, and I in them.”

And this is His commandment: that we should believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and we should love one another just as He commanded us.

No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves those born of Him.

Finally, all of you, be like-minded and sympathetic, love as brothers, be tenderhearted and humble.

with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.

Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him?

This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on My own, but He sent Me.

Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.

And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world. By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments. If anyone says, “I know Him,” but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him: . . .

This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.

This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.

Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorious joy,

Treat everyone with high regard: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.

The entire law is fulfilled in a single decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”

Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”

keep yourselves in the love of God as you await the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you eternal life.

Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.

Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good.

Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.

And we have this commandment from Him: Whoever loves God must love his brother as well.

By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His commandments.

For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.

If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.

Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.

Brothers who are beloved by God, we know that He has chosen you,

And may the Lord cause you to increase and overflow with love for one another and for everyone else, just as our love for you overflows,

Now about brotherly love, you do not need anyone to write to you, because you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.

From now on there is laid up 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 to all who crave His appearing.

And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity.

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes of the Dispersion: Greetings. Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you encounter trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Allow perseverance to finish its work, so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. . . .

Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.

It was now just before the Passover Feast, and Jesus knew that His hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the very end.

This is My command to you: Love one another.

The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.”

Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. Then you will find favor and high regard in the sight of God and man.

And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.

Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all.

By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him?

Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is.

And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

And the grace of our Lord overflowed to me, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

And now I urge you, dear lady—not as a new commandment to you, but one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another.

And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the very commandment you have heard from the beginning, that you must walk in love.

and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.

Hold on to the pattern of sound teaching you have heard from me, with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

And let us consider how to spur one another on to love and good deeds.

If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love.

Woe to you Pharisees! You pay tithes of mint, rue, and every herb, but you disregard justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without neglecting the former.

Therefore I tell you, because her many sins have been forgiven, she has loved much. But he who has been forgiven little loves little.”

because I hear about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints.

And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose. For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers. And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified. What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things? . . .

Mighty waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love, his offer would be utterly scorned.

If anyone does not love the Lord, let him be under a curse. Come, O Lord!

Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him:

But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and the helmet of our hope of salvation.

Women, however, will be saved through childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control.

Let no one despise your youth, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

For God is not unjust. He will not forget your work and the love you have shown for His name as you have ministered to the saints and continue to do so.

Even though we speak like this, beloved, we are convinced of better things in your case—things that accompany salvation.

But I have this against you: You have abandoned your first love.

But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared,

But you, O man of God, flee from these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.

Those who have believing masters should not show disrespect because they are brothers, but should serve them all the more, since those receiving their good service are beloved believers. Teach and encourage these principles.

I prefer to appeal on the basis of love. For I, Paul, am now aged, and a prisoner of Christ Jesus as well.