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But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.”
- 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (NIV)
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”
- Matthew 5:44 (NIV)
“But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.”
- Romans 12:10 (NIV)
“Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.”
- 1 John 4:7-8 (NIV)
“Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.”
- 1 Peter 4:8 (NIV)
“Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.”
- John 13:34-35 (NIV)
“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples if you love one another.”
- Colossians 3:14 (NIV)
“And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.”
- Ephesians 4:2 (NIV)
“Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.”
- Galatians 5:13 (NIV)
“You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.”
- Ephesians 5:2 (NIV)
“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.”
- 1 Thessalonians 3:12 (NIV)
“May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you.”
- Hebrews 13:1 (NIV)
“Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters.”
- 1 Peter 3:8 (NIV)
“Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble.”
- Romans 13:8 (NIV)
“Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.”
- 1 John 3:18 (NIV)
“Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.”
- Galatians 6:2 (NIV)
“Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.”
- Proverbs 10:12 (NIV)
“Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs.”
- John 15:12 (NIV)
“My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.”
- Romans 12:9 (NIV)
“Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.”
- 1 John 4:11 (NIV)
“Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.”
- 1 Corinthians 16:14 (NIV)
“Do everything in love.”
- Proverbs 17:17 (NIV)
“A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.”
- Matthew 22:39 (NIV)
“And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
- 1 Peter 1:22 (NIV)
“Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart.”
- Luke 6:27 (NIV)
“But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.”
- James 2:8 (NIV)
“If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself,’ you are doing right.”
- 1 Corinthians 13:13 (NIV)
“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
- Proverbs 15:17 (NIV)
“Better a small serving of vegetables with love than a fattened calf with hatred.”
- 1 John 4:19 (NIV)
“We love because he first loved us.”