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44But I say to you: Love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you. And pray for those who persecute and slander you.
27But I say to you who are listening: Love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you.
8Whoever does not love, does not know God. For God is love.
1If I were to speak in the language of men, or of Angels, yet not have charity, I would be like a clanging bell or a crashing cymbal. 2And if I have prophecy, and learn every mystery, and obtain all knowledge, and possess all faith, so that I could move mountains, yet not have charity, then I am nothing. 3And if I distribute all my goods in order to feed the poor, and if I hand over my body to be burned, yet not have charity, it offers me nothing. 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.
15Do not choose to love the world, nor the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the charity of the Father is not in him.
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.
18My little sons, let us not love in words only, but in works and in truth.
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.
17You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but reprove him openly, lest you have sin over him.
15If you love me, keep my commandments.
13The fear of the Lord hates evil. I detest arrogance, and pride, and every wicked way, and a mouth with a double tongue.
16You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you. And I have appointed you, so that you may go forth and bear fruit, and so that your fruit may last. Then whatever you have asked of the Father in my name, he shall give to you.
9Let love be without falseness: hating evil, clinging to what is good,
13No one has a greater love than this: that he lay down his life for his friends.
43You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor, and you shall have hatred for your enemy.’