Love for others

¹ If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.

² If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

³ If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.

⁴ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

⁵ It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.

⁶ Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.

¹⁴ We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.

¹⁵ Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that eternal life does not reside in a murderer.

¹⁶ By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

¹⁷ If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him?

¹⁸ Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.

¹⁹ And by this we will know that we belong to the truth, and will assure our hearts in His presence:

²⁰ Even if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and He knows all things.

Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

¹⁹ I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live,

²⁰ and that you may love the LORD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

Therefore watch yourselves carefully, that you love the LORD your God.

¹⁷ You must not harbor hatred against your brother in your heart. Directly rebuke your neighbor, so that you will not incur guilt on account of him.

¹⁸ Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.

¹ Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Which way has he turned? We will seek him with you.

² My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock in the gardens and to gather lilies.

³ I belong to my beloved and he belongs to me; he pastures his flock among the lilies.

⁴ You are as beautiful, my darling, as Tirzah, as lovely as Jerusalem, as majestic as troops with banners.

⁵ Turn your eyes away from me, for they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down from Gilead.

⁶ Your teeth are like a flock of sheep coming up from the washing; each has its twin, and not one of them is lost.

¹ O that you were to me like a brother who nursed at my mother’s breasts! If I found you outdoors, I would kiss you, and no one would despise me.

² I would lead you and bring you to the house of my mother who taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates.

³ His left hand is under my head, and his right arm embraces me.

⁴ O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.

⁵ Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? I roused you under the apple tree; there your mother conceived you; there she travailed and brought you forth.

⁶ Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all.

Mighty waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love, his offer would be utterly scorned.

¹ Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,

² and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.

¹³ For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.

¹⁴ The entire law is fulfilled in a single decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

³⁴ A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.

³⁵ By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”

¹² This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

¹³ Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

⁸ Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

⁹ The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

¹⁰ Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.

Do everything in love.

¹⁰ By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother.

¹¹ This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

⁸ Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

As she stood behind Him at His feet weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears and wipe them with her hair. Then she kissed His feet and anointed them with the perfume.

³ For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own flesh and blood,

⁴ the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.

¹ After David had finished speaking with Saul, the souls of Jonathan and David were knit together, and Jonathan loved him as himself.

² And from that day Saul kept David with him and did not let him return to his father’s house.

³ Then Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself.

Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”

²⁹ When Joseph looked up and saw his brother Benjamin, his own mother’s son, he asked, “Is this your youngest brother, the one you told me about?” Then he declared, “May God be gracious to you, my son.”

³⁰ Joseph hurried out because he was moved to tears for his brother, and he went to a private room to weep.

So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.

Then Mary took about a pint of expensive perfume, made of pure nard, and she anointed Jesus’ feet and wiped them with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

It was now just before the Passover Feast, and Jesus knew that His hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the very end.

⁶ While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of Simon the Leper,

⁷ a woman came to Him with an alabaster jar of expensive perfume, which she poured on His head as He reclined at the table.

While Jesus was in Bethany reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke open the jar and poured it on Jesus’ head.

But Ruth replied: “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.

For through many tears I wrote you out of great distress and anguish of heart, not to grieve you but to let you know how much I love you.

¹¹ We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians. Our hearts are open wide.

¹² It is not our affection, but yours, that is restrained.

¹³ As a fair exchange, I ask you as my children: Open wide your hearts also.

They all wept openly as they embraced Paul and kissed him.

And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his mother’s death.

Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

I prefer to appeal on the basis of love. For I, Paul, am now aged, and a prisoner of Christ Jesus as well.

I know your deeds—your love, your faith, your service, your perseverance—and your latter deeds are greater than your first.

I am not writing this to shame you, but to warn you as my beloved children.

Now Saul’s daughter Michal loved David, and when this was reported to Saul, it pleased him.