saying i love you

⁴Since then, you have become honorable in my eyes, and glorious. I have loved you, and I will present men on behalf of you, and people on behalf of your 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. 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.

¹⁴Because he has hoped in me, I will free him. I will protect him because he has known my name. ¹⁵He will cry out to me, and I will heed him. I am with him in tribulation. I will rescue him, and I will glorify him. ¹⁶I will fill him with length of days. And I will reveal to him my salvation.

²I will love you, O Lord my strength.

¹⁵Then, when they had dined, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”

³⁵By this, all shall recognize that you are my disciples: if you will have love for one another.”

¹Alleluia. I have loved: therefore, the Lord will heed the voice of my prayer. ²For he has inclined his ear to me. And in my days, I will call upon him.

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

²⁴For this reason, a man shall leave behind his father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife; and the two shall be as one flesh.

¹¹For I know the thoughts that I think over you, says the Lord: thoughts of peace and not of affliction, so that I may give you patience and an end.

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.

⁵An open rebuke is better than hidden love.