Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.

My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline, and do not resent his rebuke, because the Lord disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in.

When I said, “My foot is slipping,” your unfailing love, Lord, supported me.

And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.

For, “Whoever would love life and see good days must keep their tongue from evil and their lips from deceitful speech. They must turn from evil and do good; they must seek peace and pursue it.”

Whoever pursues righteousness and love finds life, prosperity and honor.

My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ.

But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.

But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness.

For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.

But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.

For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.

May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you.

“Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you.

If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.

Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.

And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.

Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.

Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.

Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice! Strive for full restoration, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.

Since you are precious and honored in my sight, and because I love you, I will give people in exchange for you, nations in exchange for your life.

Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame.

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

Flee the evil desires of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.”

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.

Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands.

As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him.

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.

There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.

The Lord loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of his unfailing love.

This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.

It was not by their sword that they won the land, nor did their arm bring them victory; it was your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, for you loved them.

He answered, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life.

Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.

May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.