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Colossians

3:10-14	Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.

1 Corinthians

13:4-8	"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away."

13:13	"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."

13:1-3	If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,but have not love, I gain nothing.

Ephesians

5:33	However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband."

5:25	"Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her."

4:2	Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love."

John

13:34-35	A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."

3:14	We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death.

15:13	Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

4:18	There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love."

4:19	"We love because he first loved us."

4:7	"Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

4:8	Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

3:16	This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

3:18	Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth

Luke

6:27-35	“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tunic either. Give to everyone who begs from you, and from one who takes away your goods do not demand them back. And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them. “If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. And if you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to get back the same amount. But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.”

Mark

12:31	The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these."

1 Peter

4:8	Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

Proverbs

10:12	Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers over all wrongs.

13:24	He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is careful to discipline him.

15:17	Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred.

17:17	A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Romans

12:9	Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.