⁷ And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself.

¹ Go on loving your brothers in the faith.

¹⁰ Be kind to one another with a brother's love, putting others before yourselves in honour;

¹² And the Lord give you increase of love in fullest measure to one another and to all men, even as our love to you;

¹ If I make use of the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am like sounding brass, or a loud-tongued bell.

² And if I have a prophet's power, and have knowledge of all secret things; and if I have all faith, by which mountains may be moved from their place, but have not love, I am nothing.

³ And if I give all my goods to the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it is of no profit to me.

⁴ Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride;

⁵ Love's ways are ever fair, it takes no thought for itself; it is not quickly made angry, it takes no account of evil;

⁶ It takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, but has joy in what is true;

⁷ Love has the power of undergoing all things, having faith in all things, hoping all things.

⁸ Though the prophet's word may come to an end, tongues come to nothing, and knowledge have no more value, love has no end.

³⁴ I give you a new law: Have love one for another; even as I have had love for you, so are you to have love one for another.

³⁵ By this it will be clear to all men that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.

²¹ And this is the word which we have from him, that he who has love for God is to have the same love for his brother.

¹⁷ Have respect for all, loving the brothers, fearing God, honouring the king.

²² And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:

¹⁵ Let no one give evil for evil; but ever go after what is good, for one another and for all.

⁹ But about loving the brothers, there is no need for me to say anything to you in this letter: for you have the teaching of God that love for one another is right and necessary;

¹⁰ And, truly, you are lovers of all the brothers in Macedonia; but it is our desire that your love may be increased still more;

¹⁰ So then, as we have the chance, let us do good to all men, and specially to those who are of the family of the faith.

¹⁶ In this we see what love is, because he gave his life for us; and it is right for us to give our lives for the brothers.

¹⁴ We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death.

⁸ Last of all, see that you are all in agreement; feeling for one another, loving one another like brothers, full of pity, without pride:

¹⁴ And more than all, have love; the only way in which you may be completely joined together.