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Matthew Chapter 5:43
Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
Matthew Chapter 5:44
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
Matthew Chapter 5:45
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
Matthew Chapter 5:46
For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
Matthew Chapter 5:47
And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
Matthew Chapter 5:48
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
John Chapter 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
John Chapter 13:34
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
John Chapter 15:13
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
1 Corinthians Chapter 13:1
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
1 Corinthians Chapter 13:2
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
1 Corinthians Chapter 13:3
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
1 Corinthians Chapter 13:4
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
1 Corinthians Chapter 13:5
Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
1 Corinthians Chapter 13:6
Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
1 Corinthians Chapter 13:7
Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
1 Corinthians Chapter 13:8
Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
1 Corinthians Chapter 13:9
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
1 Corinthians Chapter 13:10
But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
1 Corinthians Chapter 13:11
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
1 Corinthians Chapter 13:12
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
1 Corinthians Chapter 13:13
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
1 Peter Chapter 4:8
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
1 John Chapter 4:7
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
1 John Chapter 4:18
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
1 John Chapter 4:19
We love him, because he first loved us.