but just as it is written, “THINGS WHICH EYE HAS NOT SEEN AND EAR HAS NOT HEARD, AND which HAVE NOT ENTERED THE HEART OF MAN, ALL THAT GOD HAS PREPARED FOR THOSE WHO LOVE HIM.”
What do you desire? Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love and a spirit of gentleness?
Now concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge makes arrogant, but love edifies.
but if anyone loves God, he is known by Him.
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.
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 surrender 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,
Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away.
But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Pursue love, yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
Let all that you do be done in love.
If anyone does not love the Lord, he is to be accursed. Maranatha.
My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not so that you would be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love which I have especially for you.
Wherefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.
For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died;
in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in genuine love,
But just as you abound in everything, in faith and utterance and knowledge and in all earnestness and in the love we inspired in you, see that you abound in this gracious work also.
I am not speaking this as a command, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity of your love also.
Therefore openly before the churches, show them the proof of your love and of our reason for boasting about you.
Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!
I will most gladly spend and be expended for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
Finally, brethren, rejoice, be made complete, be comforted, be like-minded, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.
I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love.
For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
For the whole Law is fulfilled in one word, in the statement, “YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.”
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love
For this reason I too, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which exists among you and your love for all the saints,
But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.
with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing tolerance for one another in love,
but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ,
from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.
and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,
So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;
Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband.
Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love.
And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment,
the latter do it out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel;
Therefore if there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any consolation of love, if there is any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion,
make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose.
Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things.
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