¹⁶ for God did so love the world, that His Son -- the only begotten -- He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

³ among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath -- as also the others,

⁴ and God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us,

⁵ even being dead in the trespasses, did make us to live together with the Christ, (by grace ye are having been saved,)

⁶ and did raise `us' up together, and did seat `us' together in the heavenly `places' in Christ Jesus,

⁸ and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

²⁷ `But I say to you who are hearing, Love your enemies, do good to those hating you,

²⁸ bless those cursing you, and pray for those accusing you falsely;

²⁹ and to him smiting thee upon the cheek, give also the other, and from him taking away from thee the mantle, also the coat thou mayest not keep back.

²³ for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God --

²⁴ being declared righteous freely by His grace through the redemption that `is' in Christ Jesus,

²⁵ whom God did set forth a mercy seat, through the faith in his blood, for the shewing forth of His righteousness, because of the passing over of the bygone sins in the forbearance of God --

¹⁶ in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;

⁴ The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

⁵ doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil,

⁶ rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth;

¹⁹ we -- we love him, because He -- He first loved us;

⁷ for scarcely for a righteous man will any one die, for for the good man perhaps some one also doth dare to die;

⁸ and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

⁹ much more, then, having been declared righteous now in his blood, we shall be saved through him from the wrath;

¹⁷ At all times is the friend loving, And a brother for adversity is born.

³ From afar Jehovah hath appeared to me, With love age-during I have loved thee, Therefore I have drawn thee `with' kindness.

⁶ rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth;

⁷ all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth.

⁸ The love doth never fail; and whether `there be' prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;

²⁶ Give ye thanks to the God of the heavens, For to the age `is' His kindness!

⁹ In this was manifested the love of God in us, because His Son -- the only begotten -- hath God sent to the world, that we may live through him;

⁸ and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

⁴ and when the kindness and the love to men of God our Saviour did appear

⁵ (not by works that `are' in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit,

⁶ which He poured upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour,

⁷ that having been declared righteous by His grace, heirs we may become according to the hope of life age-during.

⁴³ `Ye heard that it was said: Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and shalt hate thine enemy;

⁴⁴ but I -- I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those cursing you, do good to those hating you, and pray for those accusing you falsely, and persecuting you,

⁴⁵ that ye may be sons of your Father in the heavens, because His sun He doth cause to rise on evil and good, and He doth send rain on righteous and unrighteous.

⁴⁶ `For, if ye may love those loving you, what reward have ye? do not also the tax-gatherers the same?

⁴⁷ and if ye may salute your brethren only, what do ye abundant? do not also the tax-gatherers so?

⁴⁸ ye shall therefore be perfect, as your Father who `is' in the heavens is perfect.

¹⁰ in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins.

³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of the Christ? tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

⁵ O Jehovah, in the heavens `is' Thy kindness, Thy faithfulness `is' unto the clouds.