
I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine. If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law.įor I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Let love and faithfulness never leave you bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. I pray that your love will overflow more and more, and that you will keep on growing in knowledge and understanding. Be tenderhearted, and keep a humble attitude.Ībove all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. 21 And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.

Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other's faults because of your love.īe kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.Īnyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.ĬONTEXT: 1 John 4:20: Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. No one has ever seen God but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.Īlways be humble and gentle. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.įor God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.Ī new command I give you: Love one another. There is no fear in love but perfect love casts out fear. 14 Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

Love never ends.įaith, hope and love- and the greatest of these is love.ĬONTEXT: Colossians 3:12 Put on therefore, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, gentleness, humility, and patience 13 bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if anyone has a complaint against another even as the Lord forgave you, so you also do. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love finds no joy in unrighteousness but rejoices in the truth. Love does not envy, is not boastful, is not arrogant, is not rude, is not self-seeking, is not irritable, and does not keep a record of wrongs. 7 When I am in distress, I call to you, because you answer me. 6 Hear my prayer, LORD listen to my cry for mercy. You, Lord, are forgiving and good, abounding in love to all who call to you.ĬONTEXT: Psalm 86:5 You, Lord, are forgiving and good, abounding in love to all who call to you. 13 No one has greater love than this: to lay down his life for his friends." 12 This is my command: Love one another as I have loved you. 11 I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete. 23 They are new every morning great is your faithfulness.ĬONTEXT: John 15: 10 "If you keep my commands you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain in his love.

(Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God.) Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.īecause of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.ĬONTEXT: Lamentations 3:22 Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. Honor one another above yourselves.Ī friend loves at all times, (and a brother is born for a time of adversity.) CONTEXT: Ephesians 5: 1 Follow God's example, therefore, as dearly loved children 2 and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.ĬONTEXT: Romans 12: 9 Love must be sincere.
