And the second [is] like, [namely] this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love [his] neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and [love] salutations in the marketplaces,
But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you,
For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.
But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and [to] the evil.
And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most?
And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets.
No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts;
But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.
Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
By this shall all [men] know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
These things I command you, that ye love one another.
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare [it]: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, [son] of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs.
He saith to him again the second time, Simon, [son] of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
He saith unto him the third time, Simon, [son] of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
[Let] love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
[Be] kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if [there be] any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love [is] the fulfilling of the law.
Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in [your] prayers to God for me;
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and [in] the spirit of meekness?
But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.
My love [be] with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm [your] love toward him.
For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
Therefore, as ye abound in every [thing, in] faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and [in] all diligence, and [in] your love to us, [see] that ye abound in this grace also.
I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
Wherefore show ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.
Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, [be] with you all. Amen.
For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only [use] not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
For all the law is fulfilled in one word, [even] in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, [even] Christ:
From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife [see] that she reverence [her] husband.
Peace [be] to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Grace [be] with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.
And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and [in] all judgment;
But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.
If [there be] therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, [being] of one accord, of one mind.
Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love [which ye have] to all the saints,
Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.
That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
Husbands, love [your] wives, and be not bitter against them.
Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all [men], even as we [do] toward you:
But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. [And] be at peace among yourselves.
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,
All that are with me salute thee. Greet them that love us in the faith. Grace [be] with you all. Amen.
Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints;
For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.
For God [is] not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have showed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
Let brotherly love continue.
Blessed [is] the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see [him] not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, [see that ye] love one another with a pure heart fervently:
Honour all [men]. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
Finally, [be ye] all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, [be] pitiful, [be] courteous:
For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not [his] brother abideth in death.
Hereby perceive we the love [of God], because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down [our] lives for the brethren.
But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels [of compassion] from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
Herein is love, not that we 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 ought also to love one another.
No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
We love him, because he first loved us.
If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth;
Grace be with you, mercy, [and] peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.
Mercy unto you, and peace and love, be multiplied.
Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
Nevertheless I have [somewhat] against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David.
Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, [and] mine acquaintance into darkness.
But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.
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Let us love one another, for love comes from God and every one who loves is a child of God and knows God. He who loves not man does not know God, for God is love. God showed his love for us, for he sent his only Son into the world that through him we might have life. Love the stranger.
In Mark 12:30 Jesus said;
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this [is] the first commandment.
And the second Mark 12:31 [is] like, [namely] this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
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