Love & Compassion

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

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.

My little children, let’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no other commandment greater than these.”

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

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.