He that has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me shall be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will manifest Myself to him."

Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and we will make [Our] home with him.

Therefore Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would have loved Me, for I came forth and have come from God; nor have I come from Myself, but He sent Me.

If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and I abide in His love.

This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

You are My friends if you do what I command you.

So when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, [son] of Jonah, do you love Me more than these?" He said to Him, "Yes, Lord; You know that I care for You." He said to him, "Feed My lambs."

He said to him the third time, "Simon, [son] of Jonah, do you care for Me?" Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, "Do you care for Me?" And he said to Him, "Lord, You know all things; You know that I care for You." Jesus said to him, "Feed My sheep.

He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

Then the King will say to those on His right hand, 'Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.'

When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You?

"And the King will answer and say to them, 'Assuredly I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brothers, you did it to Me.'

If anyone does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema. Marana tha!

For the love of Christ compels us, having concluded this: that if One died for all, then all died;

and He died for all, so that they who live should live no longer for themselves, but for the [One] who died for them and rose again.

I speak not by a command, but I am testing the genuineness of your love by means of the diligence of others.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet on account of you He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love.

that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power by His Spirit in the inner man,

that you may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height--

Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.

according to my earnest expectation and hope that in nothing I will be ashamed, but with utmost boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

But if I am to live on in the flesh, this to me will mean fruit from my labor; and what I shall choose I do not know.

But such things as were gain to me, these I have considered loss for the sake of Christ.

and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through [the] faith of Christ, the righteousness [which is] from God by faith;

if in some way I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Whom not having seen, you love, in whom now not seeing, but believing, you rejoice with inexpressible joy and glorified,

Now by this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments.

But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him.

We love Him because He first loved us.

If anyone claims, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how is it possible [for him] to love God whom he has not seen?

By this we know that we love the children of God, whenever we love God and keep His commandments.

For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,