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4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
View on BibleGateway14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
View on BibleGateway3 Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. 4 So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man.
View on BibleGateway16 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
View on BibleGateway2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
View on BibleGateway8 Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.
View on BibleGateway13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
View on BibleGateway16 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith--that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
View on BibleGateway9 Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.
View on BibleGateway2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
View on BibleGateway12 "This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
View on BibleGateway15 "Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. 16 Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.
View on BibleGateway10 Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
View on BibleGateway8 Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
View on BibleGateway25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
View on BibleGateway12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
View on BibleGateway5 May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.
View on BibleGateway20 If anyone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
View on BibleGateway13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lays down his life for his friends.
View on BibleGateway9 But, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him"--
View on BibleGateway8 Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
View on BibleGateway1 See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
View on BibleGateway4 Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you, I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life.
View on BibleGateway18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
View on BibleGateway6 Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the LORD.
View on BibleGateway12 and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you,
View on BibleGateway21 Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness will find life, righteousness, and honor.
View on BibleGateway8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
View on BibleGateway38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
View on BibleGateway30 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.'
View on BibleGateway15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,
View on BibleGateway1 I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my pleas for mercy. 2 Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live.
View on BibleGateway31 The second is this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."
View on BibleGateway1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
View on BibleGateway22 The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; 23 they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
View on BibleGateway10 For "Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit; 11 let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it.
View on BibleGateway5 For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.
View on BibleGateway7 for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
View on BibleGateway24 Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.
View on BibleGateway12 Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
View on BibleGateway44 But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
View on BibleGateway10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
View on BibleGateway35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
View on BibleGateway17 "You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him. 18 You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.
View on BibleGateway10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
View on BibleGateway8 The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
View on BibleGateway3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
View on BibleGateway11 But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.
View on BibleGateway8 By day the LORD commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.
View on BibleGateway22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
View on BibleGateway18 When I thought, "My foot slips," your steadfast love, O LORD, held me up.
View on BibleGateway11 For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
View on BibleGateway2 And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
View on BibleGateway27 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."
View on BibleGateway1 Let brotherly love continue. 2 Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
View on BibleGateway5 For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, 6 and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, 7 and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.
View on BibleGateway21 Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him."
View on BibleGateway3 Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you. 4 So I will bless you as long as I live; in your name I will lift up my hands.
View on BibleGateway15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
View on BibleGateway11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
View on BibleGateway9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.
View on BibleGateway34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
View on BibleGateway5 For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you.
View on BibleGateway23 Jesus answered him, "If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
View on BibleGateway11 My son, do not despise the LORD's discipline or be weary of his reproof, 12 for the LORD reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.
View on BibleGateway19 Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.
View on BibleGateway35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."
View on BibleGateway28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
View on BibleGateway14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
View on BibleGateway7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
View on BibleGateway3 We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.
View on BibleGateway9 The commandments, "You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet," and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
View on BibleGateway13 For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
View on BibleGateway13 As a father shows compassion to his children, so the LORD shows compassion to those who fear him.
View on BibleGateway4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ--by grace you have been saved--
View on BibleGateway5 He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the LORD.
View on BibleGateway4 "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. 5 You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
View on BibleGateway4 One thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to inquire in his temple.
View on BibleGateway5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
View on BibleGateway21 And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.
View on BibleGateway14 For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; 15 and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.
View on BibleGateway26 I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them."
View on BibleGateway37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
View on BibleGateway16 By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
View on BibleGateway3 for not by their own sword did they win the land, nor did their own arm save them, but your right hand and your arm, and the light of your face, for you delighted in them.
View on BibleGateway11 Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
View on BibleGateway1 Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness!
View on BibleGateway11 As for you, O LORD, you will not restrain your mercy from me; your steadfast love and your faithfulness will ever preserve me!
View on BibleGateway13 and rend your hearts and not your garments." Return to the LORD, your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.
View on BibleGateway1 Praise the LORD! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in his commandments!
View on BibleGateway6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.
View on BibleGateway10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.
View on BibleGateway19 Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
View on BibleGateway16 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
View on BibleGateway17 But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?
View on BibleGateway8 Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.
View on BibleGateway6 Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the LORD.
View on BibleGateway1 I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my pleas for mercy. 2 Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live.
View on BibleGateway5 For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.
View on BibleGateway8 The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
View on BibleGateway8 By day the LORD commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.
View on BibleGateway18 When I thought, "My foot slips," your steadfast love, O LORD, held me up.
View on BibleGateway3 Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you. 4 So I will bless you as long as I live; in your name I will lift up my hands.
View on BibleGateway5 For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you.
View on BibleGateway13 As a father shows compassion to his children, so the LORD shows compassion to those who fear him.
View on BibleGateway5 He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the LORD.
View on BibleGateway4 One thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to inquire in his temple.
View on BibleGateway3 for not by their own sword did they win the land, nor did their own arm save them, but your right hand and your arm, and the light of your face, for you delighted in them.
View on BibleGateway1 Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness!
View on BibleGateway11 As for you, O LORD, you will not restrain your mercy from me; your steadfast love and your faithfulness will ever preserve me!
View on BibleGateway1 Praise the LORD! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in his commandments!
View on BibleGateway17 "You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him. 18 You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.
View on BibleGateway4 "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. 5 You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
View on BibleGateway3 Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. 4 So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man.
View on BibleGateway11 My son, do not despise the LORD's discipline or be weary of his reproof, 12 for the LORD reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.
View on BibleGateway21 Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness will find life, righteousness, and honor.
View on BibleGateway4 Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you, I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life.
View on BibleGateway15 "Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. 16 Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.
View on BibleGateway22 The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; 23 they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
View on BibleGateway13 and rend your hearts and not your garments." Return to the LORD, your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.
View on BibleGateway44 But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
View on BibleGateway19 Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
View on BibleGateway30 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.'
View on BibleGateway31 The second is this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."
View on BibleGateway27 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."
View on BibleGateway10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
View on BibleGateway12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
View on BibleGateway16 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
View on BibleGateway18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
View on BibleGateway12 "This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
View on BibleGateway20 If anyone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
View on BibleGateway13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lays down his life for his friends.
View on BibleGateway1 See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
View on BibleGateway11 For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
View on BibleGateway21 Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him."
View on BibleGateway15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
View on BibleGateway9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.
View on BibleGateway16 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
View on BibleGateway34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
View on BibleGateway35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."
View on BibleGateway23 Jesus answered him, "If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
View on BibleGateway7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
View on BibleGateway21 And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.
View on BibleGateway10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.
View on BibleGateway26 I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them."
View on BibleGateway16 By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
View on BibleGateway17 But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?
View on BibleGateway5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
View on BibleGateway38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
View on BibleGateway28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
View on BibleGateway35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
View on BibleGateway37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
View on BibleGateway9 Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.
View on BibleGateway10 Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
View on BibleGateway8 Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
View on BibleGateway9 The commandments, "You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet," and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
View on BibleGateway10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
View on BibleGateway9 But, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him"--
View on BibleGateway24 Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.
View on BibleGateway4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
View on BibleGateway1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
View on BibleGateway2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
View on BibleGateway3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
View on BibleGateway13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
View on BibleGateway14 For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; 15 and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.
View on BibleGateway11 Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
View on BibleGateway22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
View on BibleGateway6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.
View on BibleGateway13 For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
View on BibleGateway14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
View on BibleGateway4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ--by grace you have been saved--
View on BibleGateway16 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith--that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
View on BibleGateway2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
View on BibleGateway15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,
View on BibleGateway25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
View on BibleGateway2 And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
View on BibleGateway14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
View on BibleGateway12 and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you,
View on BibleGateway3 We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.
View on BibleGateway5 May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.
View on BibleGateway12 Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
View on BibleGateway11 But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.
View on BibleGateway7 for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
View on BibleGateway1 Let brotherly love continue. 2 Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
View on BibleGateway10 For "Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit; 11 let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it.
View on BibleGateway8 Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
View on BibleGateway5 For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, 6 and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, 7 and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.
View on BibleGateway19 Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.
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