And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 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. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
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.
that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ,
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.
and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.
The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another,
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 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. 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. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.
Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,
even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love
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