love

⁴Charity is patient, is kind. Charity does not envy, does not act wrongly, is not inflated. ⁵Charity is not ambitious, does not seek for itself, is not provoked to anger, devises no evil. ⁶Charity does not rejoice over iniquity, but rejoices in truth. ⁷Charity suffers all, believes all, hopes all, endures all. ⁸Charity is never torn away, even if prophecies pass away, or languages cease, or knowledge is destroyed.

¹⁴Let all that is yours be immersed in charity.

¹⁶For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life.

¹³If any man has slept with a male in place of sexual intercourse with a female, both have committed a nefarious act, they shall die a death. So let their blood be upon them.

¹³For you, brothers, have been called to liberty. Only you must not make liberty into an occasion for the flesh, but instead, serve one another through the charity of the Spirit. ¹⁴For the entire law is fulfilled by one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

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

⁸But, before all things, have a constant mutual charity among yourselves. For love covers a multitude of sins.

¹⁴And above all these things have charity, which is the bond of perfection.

¹³But for now, these three continue: faith, hope, and charity. And the greatest of these is charity.

¹³No one has a greater love than this: that he lay down his life for his friends.

³⁴I give you a new commandment: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, so also must you love one another. ³⁵By this, all shall recognize that you are my disciples: if you will have love for one another.”

¹⁹Therefore, let us love God, for God first loved us.