34. "A new command I give
you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
35. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one
another."
1. If I speak in the tongues
of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or
a clanging cymbal.
2. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all
knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not
love, I am nothing.
3. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,
but have not love, I gain nothing.
8. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease;
where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge,
it will pass away.
7. Dear friends, let us love
one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born
of God and knows God.
8. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
9. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only
Son into the world that we might live through him.
10. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent
his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
11. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
12. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in
us and his love is made complete in us.