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Love shows up in prayerful concern, practical help, and faithfulness toward brothers and strangers.
11For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;
14We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn`t love his brother remains in death.
16By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. We ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
18My little children, let`s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
10In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
11Beloved, if God loved us so, we also ought to love one another.
21This commandment have we from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.
7Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.
8He who doesn`t love doesn`t know God, for God is love.
8Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.
12and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,
10for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;
9But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,
13and to respect and honor them in love for their work`s sake. Be at peace among yourselves.
15See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good, towards one another, and towards all.
14The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
5But the end of the charge is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and unfeigned faith;
12Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.
11But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and gentleness.
18that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to communicate;
1The elder, to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not I only, but also all those who know the truth;
12Having many things to write to you, I don`t want to do so with paper and ink, but I hope to come to you, and to speak face to face, that our joy may be made full.
3Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
5Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
6This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
8Watch yourselves, that we don`t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.
3We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you towards one another abounds;
16Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
14If any man doesn`t obey our word by this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.
15Don`t count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
5May the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ.
1The elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth.
2Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.
5Beloved, you do a faithful work in whatever you accomplish for those who are brothers and strangers.
6They have testified about your love before the assembly. You will do well to send them forward on their journey in a manner worthy of God,
8We therefore ought to receive such, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.
4having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have toward all the saints,
8who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.
2that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,
12Put on therefore, as God`s elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
13bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do.
14Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
14Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
7All my affairs will be made known to you by Tychicus, the beloved brother, faithful servant, and fellow bondservant in the Lord.
8I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that he may know your circumstances and comfort your hearts,
9together with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will make known to you all things that are going on here.
3The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, "Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick."
4But when Jesus heard it, he said, "This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God`s Son may be glorified by it."
5Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
6When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed at that time two days in the place where he was.
1Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that his time had come that he would depart out of this world to his Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
34A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.
35By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."
15If you love me, keep my commandments.
17I command these things to you, that you may love one another.
9Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.
10If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father`s commandments, and remain in his love.
11I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.
12This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
13Greater love has no one than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
23I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me.
24Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.
25Righteous Father, the world didn`t know you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.
26I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them."
16For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
12These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
2Mercy to you and peace and love be multiplied.
20But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.
21Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
23and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.
16no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, specially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
20Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in the Lord.
5hearing of your love, and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints;
7For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.
8Therefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,
9yet for love`s sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, and now a prisoner also of Christ Jesus.