ἀγάπη

Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.

But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and God’s love. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

But I know you, that you don’t have God’s love in yourselves.

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from God’s love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

Follow after love and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

Let all that you do be done in love.

My love to all of you in Christ Jesus. Amen.

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made to grieve, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.

Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him.

For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,

But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.

I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

Therefore show the proof of your love to them before the assemblies, and of our boasting on your behalf.

Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

All the saints greet you.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which you have toward all the saints,

But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ,

from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,