'Love' in the Bible

You have knowledge that it was said, Have love for your neighbour, and hate for him who is against you:

But I say to you, Have love for those who are against you, and make prayer for those who are cruel to you;

For if you have love for those who have love for you, what credit is it to you? do not the tax-farmers the same?

No man is able to be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other, or he will keep to one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.

He who has more love for his father or mother than for me is not good enough for me; he who has more love for son or daughter than for me is not good enough for me.

Give honour to your father and your mother: and, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

And he said to him, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.

And a second like it is this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

And because wrongdoing will be increased, the love of most people will become cold.

And you are to have love for the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.

The second is this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself. There is no other law greater than these.

And to have love for him with all the heart, and with all the mind, and with all the strength, and to have the same love for his neighbour as for himself, is much more than all forms of offerings.

But I say to you who give ear to me, Have love for those who are against you, do good to those who have hate for you,

If you have love for those who have love for you, what credit is it to you? for even sinners have love for those who have love for them.

When they were unable to make payment, he made the two of them free of their debts. Which of them, now, will have the greater love for him?

And so I say to you, She will have forgiveness for her sins which are great in number, because of her great love: but he who has small need of forgiveness gives little love.

And he, answering, said, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and for your neighbour as for yourself.

But a curse is on you, Pharisees! for you make men give a tenth of every sort of plant, and give no thought to right and the love of God; but it is right for you to do these things, and not let the others be undone.

No man may be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other; or he will keep to the one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.

And the Pharisees, who had a great love of money, hearing these things, were making sport of him.

But his people had no love for him, and sent representatives after him, saying, We will not have this man for our ruler.

For God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life.

And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil.

The Father has love for the Son and has put all things into his hands.

For the Father has love for the Son and lets him see everything which he does: and he will let him see greater works than these so that you may be full of wonder.

But I have knowledge of you that you have no love for God in your hearts.

Jesus said to them, If God was your Father you would have love for me, because it was from God I came and am here. I did not come of myself, but he sent me.

Now Jesus had love in his heart for Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

(He said this, not because he had any love for the poor; but because he was a thief, and, having the money-bag, took for himself what was put into it.)

He who is in love with life will have it taken from him; and he who has no care for his life in this world will keep it for ever and ever.

Now before the feast of the Passover, it was clear to Jesus that the time had come for him to go away from this world to the Father. Having once had love for those in the world who were his, his love for them went on to the end.

I give you a new law: Have love one for another; even as I have had love for you, so are you to have love one for another.

By this it will be clear to all men that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.

If you have love for me, you will keep my laws.

He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.

Jesus said to him in answer, If anyone has love for me, he will keep my words: and he will be dear to my Father; and we will come to him and make our living-place with him.

He who has no love for me does not keep my words; and the word which you are hearing is not my word but the Father's who sent me.

Keep in mind how I said to you, I go away and come to you again. If you had love for me you would be glad, because I am going to the Father: for the Father is greater than I.

But he comes so that the world may see that I have love for the Father, and that I am doing as I am ordered by the Father. Get up, and let us go.

Even as the Father has given me his love, so I have given my love to you: be ever in my love.

If you keep my laws, you will be ever in my love, even as I have kept my Father's laws, and am ever in his love.

This is the law I give you: Have love one for another, even as I have love for you.

Greater love has no man than this, that a man gives up his life for his friends.

So this is my law for you: Have love one for another.

For the Father himself gives his love to you, because you have given your love to me and have had faith that I came from God.

Father, it is my desire that these whom you have given to me may be by my side where I am, so that they may see my glory which you have given to me, because you had love for me before the world came into being.

And I have given to them knowledge of your name, and will give it, so that the love which you have for me may be in them and I in them.

Then when they had taken food, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, is your love for me greater than the love of these others? He said to him, Yes, Lord; you are certain of my love for you. He said to him, Then give my lambs food.

Again, a second time, he said to him, Simon, son of John, have you any love for me? Yes, Lord, he said, you are certain of my love for you. Then take care of my sheep, said Jesus.

But to those who, from a love of competition, are not guided by what is true, will come the heat of his wrath,

And hope does not put to shame; because our hearts are full of the love of God through the Holy Spirit which is given to us.

But God has made clear his love to us, in that, when we were still sinners, Christ gave his life for us.

And we are conscious that all things are working together for good to those who have love for God, and have been marked out by his purpose.

Who will come between us and the love of Christ? Will trouble, or pain, or cruel acts, or the need of food or of clothing, or danger, or the sword?

But we are able to overcome all these things and more through his love.

Or things on high, or things under the earth, or anything which is made, will be able to come between us and the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Even as it is said, I had love for Jacob, but for Esau I had hate.

Let love be without deceit. Be haters of what is evil; keep your minds fixed on what is good.

Be kind to one another with a brother's love, putting others before yourselves in honour;

Be in debt for nothing, but to have love for one another: for he who has love for his neighbour has kept all the law.

And this, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not put to death, Do not take what is another's, Do not have desire for what is another's, and if there is any other order, it is covered by this word, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

Love does no wrong to his neighbour, so love makes the law complete.

And if because of food your brother is troubled, then you are no longer going on in the way of love. Do not let your food be destruction to him for whom Christ went into death.

So when I have done this, and have given them this fruit of love, I will go on by you into Spain.

Now I make request to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that you will be working together with me in your prayers to God for me;

Give my love to Prisca and Aquila, workers with me in Christ Jesus,

And say a kind word to the church which is in their house. Give my love to my dear Epaenetus, who is the first fruit of Asia to Christ.

Give my love to Mary, who gave much care to you.

Give my love to Andronicus and Junia, my relations, who were in prison with me, who are noted among the Apostles, and who were in Christ before me.

Give my love to Ampliatus, who is dear to me in the Lord,

Give my love to Urbanus, a worker in Christ with us, and to my dear Stachys.

Give my love to Apelles, who has the approval of Christ. Say a kind word to those who are of the house of Aristobulus.

Give my love to Herodion, my relation. Say a kind word to those of the house of Narcissus, who are in the Lord.

Give my love to Tryphaena and Tryphosa, workers in the Lord. Give my love to my dear Persis, who did much work in the Lord.

Give my love to Rufus, one of the Lord's selection, and to his mother and mine.

Give my love to Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers who are with them.

Give my love to Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.

Give one another a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ send their love to you.

Timothy, who is working with me, sends his love to you, so do Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my relations.

I, Tertius, who have done the writing of this letter, send love in the Lord.

Gaius, with whom I am living, whose house is open to all the church, sends his love, so does Erastus, the manager of the accounts of the town, and Quartus, the brother.

Where is the wise? where is he who has knowledge of the law? where is the man of this world who has a love of discussion? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

But as it says in the holy Writings, Things which the eye saw not, and which had not come to the ears or into the heart of man, such things as God has made ready for those who have love for him.

What is your desire? is my coming to be with punishment, or is it to be in love and a gentle spirit?

Now about things offered to images: we all seem to ourselves to have knowledge. Knowledge gives pride, but love gives true strength.

But if anyone has love for God, God has knowledge of him.

If I make use of the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am like sounding brass, or a loud-tongued bell.

And if I have a prophet's power, and have knowledge of all secret things; and if I have all faith, by which mountains may be moved from their place, but have not love, I am nothing.

And if I give all my goods to the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it is of no profit to me.

Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride;

Love has the power of undergoing all things, having faith in all things, hoping all things.

Though the prophet's word may come to an end, tongues come to nothing, and knowledge have no more value, love has no end.

But now we still have faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

Go after love; still desiring to have the things which the Spirit gives, but most of all that you may have the prophet's power.

Let all you do be done in love.

The churches of Asia send their love to you. So do Aquila and Prisca, with the church which is in their house.

All the brothers send their love to you. Give one another a holy kiss.

I, Paul, send you these words of love in my writing.

If any man has not love for the Lord, let him be cursed. Maran atha (our Lord comes).

My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. So be it.