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Love
Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love
covers a multitude of sins.
(1 Peter 4:8)
"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love you neighbor, and
hate your enemy.' "But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for
those who persecute you
(Matthew 5:43-44)
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love,
I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have the gift
of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have
all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I deliver my
body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing. Love is
patient, love is kind, and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not
arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not
provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice
in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all thing, believes
all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
(1 Corinthians 13:1-7)
And we have beheld and bear witness that the Father has sent the Son to
be the Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God,
God abides in him, and he in God. And we have come to know and have believed
the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love
abides in God, and God abides in him.
(1 John 4:14-16)
For this, "You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall
not steal, You shall not covet," and if there is any other commandment, it
is summed up in this saying, "you shall love your neighbor as yourself."
Love does no wrong to a neighbor; love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.
(Romans 13:9-10)
For the whole Law is fulfilled in one word, in the statement, "You shall love
your neighbor as yourself." But if you bite and devour one another, take care
lest you be consumed by one another. But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you
will not carry out the desire of the flesh. For the flesh sets it's desire
against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition
to one another, so that you may not do the things that you please. But if you
are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law. Now the deeds of the flesh
are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery,
enmities, strife, jealously, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions,
envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn
you just as I have forewarned you that those who practice such things shall
not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy,
peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control;
against such things there is no law. Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have
crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit
let us also walk by the Spirit. Let us not become boastful, challenging one
another, envying one another.
(Galatians 5:14-26)
See that no one repays another with evil for evil, but always seek after that
which is good for one another and for all men.
(1 Thessalonians 5:15)
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