1 Corinthians 8:1 Now as
touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge.
Knowledge puffeth up,
but charity edifieth.
1 Corinthians 12:31 But
covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet
shew I unto you a more excellent way.
1 Corinthians 13:1-
13 Though
I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and
have not charity, I am become
[as] sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. ... And now
abideth faith,
hope,
charity, these three; but
the greatest of these [
is] charity.
1 Corinthians 14:1 Follow after
charity, and
desire spiritual [
gifts], but rather that ye may
prophesy.
John 13:34-
35 A new commandment I give unto you,
That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. ... By this shall all [
men] know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
John 15:17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.
Romans 13:8-
10 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another:
for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. ... Love
worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore
love [is] the fulfilling of the law.
Romans 14:15 But if
thy brother be grieved with [
thy] meat,
now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.
Galatians 5:13-
14 For, brethren,
ye have been called unto liberty;
only [
use] not liberty for an occasion to the flesh,
but by love serve one another. ... For
all the law is fulfilled in one word, [
even] in this;
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Galatians 5:22 But
the fruit of the Spirit is
love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness,
goodness,
faith,
Ephesians 4:1-
3 I therefore, the
prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye
walk worthy of the
vocation wherewith ye are called, ... Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Philippians 2:1-
3 If [
there be] therefore
any consolation in Christ,
if any comfort of love,
if any fellowship of the Spirit,
if any bowels and mercies, ... [
Let]
nothing [
be done] through strife or vainglory;
but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
1 Thessalonians 3:6 But now
when Timotheus came from you unto us,
and brought us good tidings of your
faith and charity,
and that ye have good remembrance of us always,
desiring greatly to see us, as we also [
to see] you:
1 Thessalonians 3:12 And
the Lord make you to increase and
abound in
love one toward another, and toward all [
men],
even as we [
do] toward you:
1 Thessalonians 4:9-
10 But as
touching brotherly love
ye need not that I write unto you:
for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. ... And indeed ye do it toward
all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren,
that ye increase more and more;
2 Thessalonians 1:3 We
are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that
your faith
groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
1 Timothy 1:5 Now
the end of the commandment is
charity out of
a pure heart, and [
of]
a good conscience, and [
of]
faith unfeigned:
Hebrews 13:4 Marriage [
is] honourable in all,
and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers
God will judge.
1 Peter 4:8 And
above all things have
fervent charity among yourselves:
for charity
shall cover the multitude of sins.
2 Peter 1:7 And to godliness
brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness
charity.
1 John 4:7-
8 Beloved,
let us love one another: for
love is of God; and
every one that loveth is born of God,
and knoweth God. ... He that loveth not
knoweth not God; for
God is love.
