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34I give you a new commandment: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, so also must you love one another.
7Charity suffers all, believes all, hopes all, endures all.
2Bless the Lord, O my soul, and do not forget all his recompenses. 3He forgives all your iniquities. He heals all your infirmities. 4He redeems your life from destruction. He crowns you with mercy and compassion.
9Let love be without falseness: hating evil, clinging to what is good,
12Therefore, clothe yourselves like the elect of God: holy and beloved, with hearts of mercy, kindness, humility, modesty, and patience.
9He who walks in simplicity walks in confidence. But he who corrupts his ways shall be discovered.
10You who love the Lord: hate evil. The Lord watches over the souls of his holy ones. He will free them from the hand of the sinner.
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.
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.
8And finally, may you all be of one mind: compassionate, loving brotherhood, merciful, meek, humble,
32And be kind and merciful to one another, forgiving one another, just as God has forgiven you in Christ.
4And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but educate them with the discipline and correction of the Lord.
17Whoever possesses the goods of this world, and sees his brother to be in need, and yet closes his heart to him: in what way does the love of God abide in him?
4Consider also the ships, which, though they are great and may be driven by strong winds, yet they are turned around with a small rudder, to be directed to wherever the strength of the pilot might will. 5So also the tongue certainly is a small part, but it moves great things. Consider that a small fire can set ablaze a great forest. 6And so the tongue is like a fire, comprising all iniquity. The tongue, stationed in the midst of our body, can defile the entire body and inflame the wheel of our nativity, setting a fire from Hell. 7For the nature of all beasts and birds and serpents and others is ruled over, and has been ruled over, by human nature. 8But no man is able to rule over the tongue, a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 9By it we bless God the Father, and by it we speak evil of men, who have been made in the likeness of God.