And because iniquity will abound, the [agape] love of many will grow cold.

But woe to you, Pharisees! for you tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the [agape] love of God: these ought you to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

But I know you, that you do not have the [agape] love of God in you.

By this will all [men] know that you are my disciples, if you have [agape] love one for another.

Just as the Father [agape] loved me, in the same way I also [agape] loved you: remain in my [agape] love.

If you hang onto my instructions, you will remain in my [agape] love; just as I held onto my Father's instructions, and remain in His [agape] love.

Nobody has a love greater than this, that someone should lay down their [psuche] life for their friends.

And I have declared to them your name, and will declare [it]: that the [agape] love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.

So when they had eaten, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, [son] of Jonah, do you [agape] love me more than these? He said to him, Yes, Lord; you know that I [phileo] love you. He said to him, Feed my lambs.

He said to him again the second time, Simon, [son] of Jonah, do you [agape] love me? He said to him, Yes, Lord; you know that I [phileo] love you. He said to him, Shepherd my sheep.

And hope does not bring shame or regret; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost who is given to us.

But God continually proves his [agape] love toward us, because while we were still sinners, Christ died on our behalf.

Who will separate us from the [agape] love of Christ? [will] tribulation, or distress, 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 the [agape] love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

[Let] [agape] love be sincere. [Continually] abhor what is evil; [continue to] be joined to what is good.

[Agape] love works no ill to its neighbor: therefore [agape] love [is] the fulfilling of the law.

But if your brother is offended because of [your] food, you are no longer walking in [agape] love. Do not destroy with your food, the one for whom Christ died.

Now I appeal to you, brothers, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the [agape] love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in [your] prayers to God for me;

What do you want? Should I come to you with a [punishing] rod, or in [agape] love, and [in] the spirit of meekness?

Now concerning things offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but [agape] love builds up.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and do not have [agape] love, I have become [like] a noisy brass [instrument], or a clanging cymbal.

And though I have prophetic [insight], and understand all the hidden things, and all the known things; and though I have absolute faith, so that I could remove mountains, and do not have [agape] love, I am nothing.

And if I give away all my possessions to feed [the poor], and if I give my body to be burned [as a martyr], and do not have [agape] love, it is of no benefit to me.

[Agape] love endures patiently, [and] is kind; [agape] love does not envy; [agape] love does not brag, is not arrogant,

[Agape] love never loses its efficiency: but if [there are] prophecies, they will come to an end; if [there are] tongues, they will cease; if [there is] knowledge, it will vanish away.

So now these three continue to exist faith, hope, and [agape] love; but the greatest of these [is] [agape] love.

Pursue [agape] love, and passionately desire spiritual [gifts], but mostly that you may prophesy.

Let all your things be done with [agape] love.

My [agape] love [be] with you all 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 grieved, but that you might know the [agape] love that I have more abundantly towards you.

Therefore I ask you that you would confirm [your] [agape] love toward him.

For the [agape] love of Christ compels us; because we have come to this conclusion, that if one died for all, then all died:

By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by sincere [agape] love,

Therefore, as you abound in every [thing, in] faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and [in] all diligence, and [in] your [agape] love to us, [see] that you abound in this grace also.

I do not speak through commandment, but because of the willingness of others, and to prove [dokimazo] the sincerity of your [agape] love.

Therefore you show to them, and before the churches, the proof of your [agape] love, and of our boasting on your behalf.

Finally, brothers, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of [agape] love and peace will be with you.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the [agape] love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, [be] with you all. Amen.

For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision is able to do any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which is energized through [agape] love.

For, brothers, you have been called to freedom; but do not [use] freedom as a base for the flesh, but by [agape] love serve one another.

But the fruit of the Spirit is [agape] love, joy, peace, patient endurance, kindness, goodness, assurance,

Since he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, to be holy and without blame in His sight in [agape] love:

Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and [agape] love to all the saints,

But God, who is rich in mercy, through his great [agape] love with which he loved us,

Causing Christ [The Anointed One] to take up residence in your hearts through faith; that you, having been rooted and established in [agape] love,

And to know (intimately) the [agape] love of Christ, which transcends human understanding, that you may become filled up with all the abundance of God.

With every kind of humility and meekness, with patience, sustaining one another in [agape] love;

But speaking the truth in [agape] love, may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, [namely] Christ:

From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplies, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, makes increase of the body to the edifying of itself in [agape] love.

And walk in [agape] love, as Christ also has loved us, and has given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

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

And this I pray, that your [agape] love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and [in] all judgment;

Whatever encouragement there may be in Christ, whatever comfort there may be in [agape] love, whatever communion there may be in the Spirit, whatever heartfelt compassion there may be,

Make me totally happy that you are continually thinking as one, having the same [agape] love, your souls joined together in continual harmony.

Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the [agape] love [which you have] to all the saints,

Who also declared to us your [agape] love in the Spirit.

Who has delivered us from the authority of darkness, and has translated [us] into the kingdom of the Son of his [agape] love:

That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in [agape] love, and to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;

And in addition to all of that [put on] [agape] love, which is the ligament that holds everything perfectly in place.

Remembering continually your active work originating from faith, and troublesome effort originating from [agape] love, and continual pressing through originating from hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of God who is also our Father;

But now when Timothy came from you to us, and brought us good news of your faith and [agape] love, and that you have good memories of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also do you:

And the Lord make you to increase and abound in [agape] love one toward another, and toward all [men], even as we [do] toward you:

But let us, who are day persons, be calm and collected, having clothed ourselves with the corset of faith and [agape] love; and for a head covering, the confident expectation of salvation.

And to put them way above yourself in [agape] love because of what they do. Living together in harmony and free of conflict.

We are bound to thank God always for you, brothers, as it is fitting, because your faith is growing exceedingly, and the [agape] love of every one of you all toward each other is abounding;

And with all deception of unrighteousness in those that perish; because they did not receive the [agape] love of the truth, that they might be saved.

And the Lord direct your hearts into the [agape] love of God, and into the endurance of Christ.

And the aim of that instruction is [agape] love out of a pure heart, and [of] a good conscience, and [of] sincere faith:

And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and [agape] love which is in Christ Jesus.

Yet she will be saved through the bearing of children, if they continue in faith and [agape] love and holiness with self control.

Don't let anyone look down on you because of your youth; but be a model to the believers, in word, in conduct, in [agape] love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

But you, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, [agape] love, patience, meekness.

For God did not give us the spirit of insecurity and timidity; but of [dynamic] power, and of [agape] love, and of self-confidence.

Hang onto the pattern of sound teaching, which you heard from me, in faith and [agape] love, which are in Christ Jesus.

Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, [agape] love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

But you have fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, [agape] love, patience,

That the older men be sober, grave, self-controlled, sound in faith, in [agape] love, in endurance.

Hearing of your [agape] love and faith, which you have toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints;

For we have great joy and consolation in your [agape] love, because the hearts of the saints are refreshed by you, brother.

Yet for [agape] love's sake I rather appeal to [you], being such a one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

For God [is] not unjust to forget your work and labour of [agape] love, which you have shown toward His Name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and are [still] ministering.

And let us consider provoking one another to [agape] love and to good works:

And above all things have fervent [agape] love among yourselves: for [agape] love will cover up a multitude of sins.

Greet you one another with a kiss of [agape] love. Peace [be] with you all that are in Christ Jesus. Amen.

And godliness with brotherly kindness; and brotherly kindness with [agape] love.

But whoever keeps his word, in him truly is the [agape] love of God perfected: this is how we know that we are in him.

Do not show love for the world system or anything in the world system. Whoever loves the world system does not have the abiding love of the Father within.

Realize what kind of [agape] love the Father has given to us, so that we could be called the children of God: therefore the world system does not understand us, because it did not understand Him.

This is how we know the [agape] love [of God], because he laid down his [psuche] life for us: and we ought to lay down [our] [psuche] lives for the brothers.

But whoever has this world's [bios] goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart [of compassion] from him, how can the [agape] love of God dwell in him?

Beloved, let us continually love one another: for [agape] love is from God; and every one that is continually loving has been born from God, and continues to know God intimately.

He that does not love does not know God; for God is [agape] love.

In this was manifested the [agape] love of God toward us, because God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

In this is [agape] love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.

No man has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and his [agape] love is perfected in us.

And we have come to know intimately and are fully convinced of the [agape] love that God continually has within us. God is [agape] love; and the one that continually remains in [agape] love continually remains in God, and God in them.

Herein is our [agape] love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

There is no fear in [agape] love; but mature [agape] love casts out fear: because fear involves punishment. He that fears has not matured in [agape] love.

For this is the [agape] love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

Grace be with you, mercy, [and] peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and [agape] love.

And this is [agape] true love, that we should be walking in obedience to His commandments. Just like you heard from the beginning, this is the commandment that you should be living by.

Who have borne witness of your [agape] love before the church: whom if you promote on their journey in a godly way, you will do well:

Mercy to you, and peace, and [agape] love, be given in abundance.

These are rocky reefs in your [agape] love feasts, when they dine with you, feeding themselves without fear: [they are] clouds without water, carried about by winds; trees whose fruit withers, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

Keep yourselves in the [agape] love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ [leading] to eternal [zoe] life.

Nevertheless I have [something] against you, because you have given up your first [agape] love.

I know your works, and [agape] love, and service, and faith, and your patience, and your works; and the last [to be] more than the first.