rejoicing in the truth

⁶Charity does not rejoice over iniquity, but rejoices in truth.

¹¹And so, have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead, refute them.

¹⁷Sanctify them in truth. Your word is truth.

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.

³⁴I give you a new commandment: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, so also must you love one another.

⁸But God demonstrates his love for us in that, while we were yet sinners, at the proper time,

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

⁴Charity is patient, is kind. Charity does not envy, does not act wrongly, is not inflated.

²²So chastise your souls with the obedience of charity, in fraternal love, and love one another from a simple heart, attentively.

¹⁵Be solicitous in the task of presenting yourself before God as a proven and unashamed worker who has handled the Word of Truth correctly.

¹⁶And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love. And he who abides in love, abides in God, and God in him.

⁹If we confess our sins, then he is faithful and just, so as to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all iniquity.

¹⁵Instead, acting according to truth in charity, we should increase in everything, in him who is the head, Christ himself.