What Does The Bible Say About?

Love Yourself

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1 Corinthians 6:19

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Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;

1 Corinthians 6:20

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you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7

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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.

2 Timothy 3:1-5

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But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good, traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. Turn away from such as these!

Ezra 10:4

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Get up, for this matter is your responsibility, and we will support you. Be strong and take action!”

Leviticus 19:18

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

Matthew 22:37-39

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Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

1 Corinthians 13:13

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

Romans 13:9

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The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

1 Corinthians 13:4-8

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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. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed.

1 John 4:7

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

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

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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. . . .

1 Peter 4:8

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

Matthew 7:1-29

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“Do not judge, or you will be judged. For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while there is still a beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. . . .

John 3:16

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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.

Matthew 19:19

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honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.’”

1 Corinthians 13:3

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

Colossians 3:14

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

Proverbs 10:12

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Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.

1 Corinthians 16:14

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Do everything in love.

Luke 6:35

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But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

Mark 12:31

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

Matthew 22:37

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

Ephesians 4:2

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

1 John 4:19

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We love because He first loved us.

Proverbs 17:17

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A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

1 John 3:18

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

1 John 4:16

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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.

Ephesians 5:25

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her

Galatians 5:14

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

John 14:15

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If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

John 15:17

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This is My command to you: Love one another.

Luke 10:1-42

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After this, the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of Him to every town and place He was about to visit. And He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest. Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves. Carry no purse or bag or sandals. Do not greet anyone along the road. Whatever house you enter, begin by saying, ‘Peace to this house.’ . . .

Matthew 22:39

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And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

Romans 12:10

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Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.

Romans 13:8

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

Romans 5:8

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But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

James 2:8

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

John 13:34

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

Philippians 2:3

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Do nothing out of selfish ambition or empty pride, but in humility consider others more important than yourselves.

1 John 3:1

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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.

1 John 4:18

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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.

Ephesians 5:29

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Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.

Ephesians 5:33

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Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

Galatians 2:20

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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.

John 15:13

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

Romans 13:10

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

1 John 4:8

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

Luke 10:27

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He answered, “‘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 ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”

Luke 6:31

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Do to others as you would have them do to you.

Psalm 139:14

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I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.

Song of Solomon 4:1-16

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How beautiful you are, my darling—how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Mount Gilead. Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn sheep coming up from the washing; each has its twin, and not one of them is lost. Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon, and your mouth is lovely. Your brow behind your veil is like a slice of pomegranate. Your neck is like the tower of David, built with rows of stones; on it hang a thousand shields, all of them shields of warriors. Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle grazing among the lilies. . . .

1 John 4:7-8

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Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Ephesians 2:4-5

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But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!

Song of Solomon 8:6-7

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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. 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.

Song of Solomon 8:7

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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.

1 Corinthians 6:9

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Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,

1 Samuel 16:7

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But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or height, for I have rejected him; the LORD does not see as man does. For man sees the outward appearance, but the LORD sees the heart.”

2 Timothy 3:1-2

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But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

Deuteronomy 6:5

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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 strength.

Genesis 1:26

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Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”

Song of Solomon 4:7

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You are altogether beautiful, my darling; in you there is no flaw.

1 John 3:14

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

1 John 3:16

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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.

1 John 3:16-18

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

1 John 4:11

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

1 John 4:18-19

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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. We love because He first loved us.

1 John 4:9-11

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

1 Peter 2:17

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

1 Thessalonians 3:12

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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,

Deuteronomy 7:9

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Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.

Ephesians 2:10

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For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.

Ephesians 4:2-3

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with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, and with diligence to preserve the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.

Ephesians 4:32

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Be kind and tenderhearted to one another, forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you.

John 13:34-35

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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.”

John 15:12-13

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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.

Leviticus 19:34

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You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born and love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

Mark 12:33

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and to love Him with all your heart and with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself, which is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

Matthew 22:40

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All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

Matthew 6:24

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No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

Matthew 7:12

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In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets.

Proverbs 3:3-4

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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.

Psalm 18:1

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For the choirmaster. Of David the servant of the LORD, who sang this song to the LORD on the day the LORD had delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love You, O LORD, my strength.

Psalm 36:7

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How precious is Your loving devotion, O God, that the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings!

Romans 12:9

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

1 John 4:20

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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.

Jeremiah 31:3

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The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.

Luke 6:27

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But to those of you who will listen, I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

Proverbs 19:8

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He who acquires wisdom loves himself; one who safeguards understanding will find success.

Psalm 139:1-24

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For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O LORD, You have searched me and known me. You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it, O LORD. You hem me in behind and before; You have laid Your hand upon me. . . .

1 John 3:19

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And by this we will know that we belong to the truth, and will assure our hearts in His presence:

1 John 4:12

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

1 John 4:21

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

1 John 4:9-10

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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. 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.

1 Peter 1:22

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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.

1 Peter 3:8

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

1 Timothy 4:12

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

Colossians 3:18

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Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Revelation 1:1-20

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This is the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants what must soon come to pass. He made it known by sending His angel to His servant John, who testifies to everything he saw. This is the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear and obey what is written in it, because the time is near. John, To the seven churches in the province of Asia: Grace and peace to you from Him who is and was and is to come, and from the seven Spirits before His throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood, . . .

Titus 2:4

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In this way they can train the young women to love their husbands and children,

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