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He who spares his rod hates his son, but he who loves him takes
care to chastise him. [PROV 13:24]
The way of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but he
loves the man who pursues virtue. [PROV 15:9]
The senseless man loves not to be reproved; to wise men he will
not go. [PROV 15:12]
Kings have a horror of wrongdoing, for by righteousness
the throne endures. The king takes delight in honest lips, and
the man who speaks what is right he loves. [PROV 16:12-13]
He who loves strife loves guilt; he who builds his gate high
courts disaster. [PROV 17:19]
Love not sleep, lest you be reduced to poverty; eyes wide open
mean abundant food. [PROV 20:13]
He who loves pleasure will suffer want; he who loves wine and
perfume will not be rich. [PROV 21:17]
The LORD loves the pure of heart; the man of winning speech has
the king for his friend. [PROV 22:11]
Better is an open rebuke than a love that remains hidden. [PROV
27:5]
He who loves wisdom makes his father glad, but he who consorts
with harlots squanders his wealth. [PROV 29:3]
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time
of peace. [ECCL 3:8]
The covetous man is never satisfied with money, and the lover
of wealth reaps no fruit from it; so this too is vanity. [ECCL
5:9]
Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of the
fleeting life that is granted you under the sun. This is your lot
in life, for the toil of your labors under the sun. [ECCL 9:9]
Let him kiss me with kisses of his mouth! More delightful is
your love than wine! Your name spoken is a spreading perfume- that
is why the maidens love you. With you we rejoice and exult, we
extol your love; it is beyond wine: how rightly you are loved!
[Taken from SONG 1:2-4]
Tell me, you whom my heart loves, where you pasture your flock,
where you give them rest at midday, Lest I be found wandering
after the flocks of your companions. [SONG 1:7]
My lover is for me a sachet of myrrh to rest in my bosom. [SONG
1:13]
Ah, you are beautiful, my beloved, ah, you are beautiful; your
eyes are doves! [SONG 1:15]
As a lily among thorns, so is my beloved among women. As
an apple tree among the trees of the woods, so is my lover
among men. I delight to rest in his shadow, and his
fruit is sweet to my mouth. He brings me into the banquet hall and
his emblem over me is love. Strengthen me with raisin cakes, refresh
me with apples, for I am faint with love. [SONG 2:2-5]
I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles and hinds
of the field, Do not arouse, do not stir up love before its own
time. [SONG 2:7]
My lover speaks; he says to me, "Arise, my beloved,
my beautiful one, and come! For see, the winter is
past, the rains are over and gone. The flowers appear on the
earth, the time of pruning the vines has come, and the
song of the dove is heard in our land. The fig tree puts forth its
figs, and the vines, in bloom, give forth fragrance. Arise,
my beloved, my beautiful one, and come!" [SONG 2:10-13]
On my bed at night I sought him whom my heart loves- I
sought him but I did not find him. I will rise then and go about
the city; in the streets and crossings I will seek Him
whom my heart loves. I sought him but I did not find him. The
watchmen came upon me as they made their rounds of the city: Have
you seen him whom my heart loves? I had hardly left them when
I found him whom my heart loves. I took hold of him and would
not let him go till I should bring him to the home of my
mother, to the room of my parent. I adjure you, daughters of
Jerusalem, by the gazelles and hinds of the field, Do
not arouse, do not stir up love before its own time. [SONG
3:1-5]
Ah, you are beautiful, my beloved, ah, you are beautiful! Your
eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of
goats streaming down the mountains of Gilead. [SONG 4:1]
You are all-beautiful, my beloved, and there is no blemish in
you. [SONG 4:7]
How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride, how much more
delightful is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your
ointments than all spices! [SONG 4:10]
Eat, friends; drink! Drink freely of love! [Taken from SONG
5:1]
I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my lover-
What shall you tell him?- that I am faint with love. [SONG 5:8]
Where has your lover gone, O most beautiful among women? Where
has your lover gone that we may seek him with you? My lover has
come down to his garden, to the beds of spice, To browse in the
garden and to gather lilies. My lover belongs to me and I to him;
he browses among the lilies. [SONG 6:1-3]
You are as beautiful as Tirzah, my beloved, as lovely as
Jerusalem, as awe-inspiring as bannered troops. [SONG 6:4]
How beautiful you are, how pleasing, my love, my delight! [SONG
7:7]
Let us go early to the vineyards, and see if the vines are in
bloom, If the buds have opened, if the pomegranates have
blossomed; There will I give you my love. [SONG 7:13]
I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles and hinds
of the field, Do not arouse, do not stir up love, before its own
time. [SONG 8:4]
Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; For
stern as death is love, relentless as the nether world is
devotion; its flames are a blazing fire. Deep waters cannot quench
love, nor floods sweep it away. Were one to offer all he owns to
purchase love, he would be roundly mocked. [SONG 8:6-7]
Love justice, you who judge the earth; think of the LORD
in goodness, and seek him in integrity of heart; Because he
is found by those who test him not, and he manifests himself
to those who do not disbelieve him. [WISDOM 1:1-2]
Those who trust in him shall understand truth, and the faithful
shall abide with him in love: Because grace and mercy are with his
holy ones, and his care is with the elect. [WISDOM 3:9]
He who pleased God was loved; he who lived among sinners was
transported [Taken from WISDOM 4:10]
Resplendent and unfading is Wisdom, and she is readily
perceived by those who love her, and found by those who seek her.
[WISDOM 6:12]
For the first step toward discipline is a very earnest desire for
her; then, care for discipline is love of her; love means the
keeping of her laws; To observe her laws is the basis for
incorruptibility; and incorruptibility makes one close to God;
thus the desire for Wisdom leads up to a kingdom. [WISDOM
6:17-20]
Therefore I prayed, and prudence was given me; I pleaded
and the spirit of Wisdom came to me. I preferred her to scepter
and throne, And deemed riches nothing in comparison with her,
nor did I liken any priceless gem to her; Because all gold,
in view of her, is a little sand, and before her, silver is
to be accounted mire. Beyond health and comeliness I loved her, And
I chose to have her rather than the light, because the
splendor of her never yields to sleep. Yet all good things
together came to me in her company, and countless riches at
her hands; And I rejoiced in them all, because Wisdom is their
leader, though I had not known that she is the mother of
these. [WISDOM 7:7-12]
Such things as are hidden I learned and such as are plain; for
Wisdom, the artificer of all, taught me. For in her is a
spirit intelligent, holy, unique, Manifold, subtle, agile, clear,
unstained, certain, Not baneful, loving the good, keen, unhampered,
beneficent, kindly, Firm, secure, tranquil, all-powerful,
all-seeing, And pervading all spirits, though they be
intelligent, pure and very subtle. [WISDOM 7:21-23]
For there is nought God loves, be it not one who dwells with Wisdom. For she is fairer than the sun and surpasses every
constellation of the stars. Compared to light, she takes
precedence; for that, indeed, night supplants, but wickedness
prevails not over Wisdom. [WISDOM 7:28-30]
[Wisdom] I loved and sought after from my youth; I sought
to take her for my bride and was enamored of her beauty. She
adds to nobility the splendor of companionship with God; even
the LORD of all loved her. For she is instructress in the
understanding of God, the selector of his works. And if
riches be a desirable possession in life, what is more rich
than Wisdom, who produces all things? And if prudence renders
service, who in the world is a better craftsman than she? Or
if one loves justice, the fruits of her works are virtues; For
she teaches moderation and prudence, justice and fortitude, and
nothing in life is more useful for men than these. [Taken from
WISDOM 8:2-7]
But you have mercy on all, because you can do all things; and
you overlook the sins of men that they may repent. For you love
all things that are and loathe nothing that you have made; for
what you hated, you would not have fashioned. And how could a
thing remain, unless you willed it; or be preserved, had it
not been called forth by you? But you spare all things, because
they are yours, O LORD and lover of souls, for your
imperishable spirit is in all things! [WISDOM 11:23-26, 12:1]
For neither did the evil creation of men's fancy deceive us, nor
the fruitless labor of painters, A form smeared with varied
colors, the sight of which arouses yearning in the senseless man, till
he longs for the inanimate form of a dead image. Lovers of evil
things, and worthy of such hopes are they who make them and
long for them and worship them. [WISDOM 15:4-6]
For your creation, serving you, its maker, grows tense for
punishment against the wicked, but is relaxed in benefit for
those who trust in you. Therefore at that very time, transformed
in all sorts of ways, it was serving your all-nourishing
bounty according to what they needed and desired; That your
sons whom you loved might learn, O LORD, that it is not the
various kinds of fruits that nourish man, but it is your word
that preserves those who believe you! [WISDOM 16:24-26]
Those who fear the LORD disobey not his words; those who love
him keep his ways. [SIRACH 2:15]
Those who fear the LORD seek to please him, those who love him
are filled with his law. [SIRACH 2:16]
My son, conduct your affairs with humility, and you will be
loved more than a giver of gifts. [SIRACH 3:17]
A stubborn man will fare badly in the end, and he who loves
danger will perish in it. [SIRACH 3:25]
Wisdom instructs her children and admonishes those who
seek her. He who loves her loves life; those who seek her out
win her favor. He who holds her fast inherits glory; wherever
he dwells, the LORD bestows blessings. Those who serve her serve
the Holy One; those who love her the LORD loves. [SIRACH
4:11-14]
With all your strength, love your Creator, forsake not his
ministers. [SIRACH 7:30]
To the poor man also extend your hand, that your blessing
may be complete; Be generous to all the living, and withhold
not your kindness from the dead. Avoid not those who weep, but
mourn with those who mourn; Neglect not to visit the sick - for
these things you will be loved. In whatever you do, remember your
last days, and you will never sin. [SIRACH 7:32-36]
Wisdom and understanding and knowledge of affairs, love and
virtuous paths are from the LORD. [SIRACH 11:15]
Every living thing loves its own kind, every man a man
like himself. Every being is drawn to its own kind; with his
own kind every man associates. Is a wolf ever allied with a lamb? So
it is with the sinner and the just. [SIRACH 13:14-16]
With three things I am delighted, for they are pleasing to the
LORD and to men: Harmony among brethren, friendship among
neighbors, and the mutual love of husband and wife. [SIRACH 25:1]
He who loves his son chastises him often, that he may be his
joy when he grows up. [SIRACH 30:1]
The lover of gold will not be free from sin, for he who pursues
wealth is led astray by it. [SIRACH 31:5]
The eyes of the LORD are upon those who love him; he is their
mighty shield and strong support, A shelter from the heat, a shade
from the noonday sun, a guard against stumbling, a help against
falling. [SIRACH 34:16]
Wine and music delight the soul, but better than either,
conjugal love. [SIRACH 40:20]
Beloved of his people, dear to his Maker, dedicated from his
mother's womb, Consecrated to the LORD as a prophet, was Samuel,
the judge and priest. At God's word he established the kingdom and
anointed princes to rule the people. [SIRACH 46:13]
With his every deed [David] offered thanks to God Most High, in
words of praise. With his whole being he loved his Maker and daily
had his praises sung; He added beauty to the feasts and
solemnized the seasons of each year With string music before
the altar, providing sweet melody for the psalms So that when the
Holy Name was praised, before daybreak the sanctuary would
resound. [Taken from SIRACH 47:8-10]
Your princes are rebels and comrades of thieves; Each one of
them loves a bribe and looks for gifts. The fatherless they defend
not, and the widow's plea does not reach them. [ISA 1:23]
For I am the LORD, your God, the Holy One of Israel, your
savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba
in return for you. Because you are precious in my eyes and
glorious, and because I love you, I give men in return for
you and peoples in exchange for your life. Fear not, for I am
with you; from the east I will bring back your descendants, from
the west I will gather you. [ISA 43:3-5]
In an outburst of wrath, for a moment I hid my face from you;
But with enduring love I take pity on you, says the LORD, your
redeemer. [ISA 54:8]
Though the mountains leave their place and the hills be shaken,
My love shall never leave you nor my covenant of peace be shaken,
says the LORD, who has mercy on you. [ISA 54:10]
My watchmen are blind, all of them unaware; They are all dumb
dogs, they cannot bark; Dreaming as they lie there, loving their
sleep. [ISA 56:10]
Behind the door and the doorpost you placed your indecent
symbol. Deserting me, you spread out your high, wide bed; And of
those whose embraces you love you carved the symbol and gazed upon
it [ISA 57:8]
For I, the LORD, love what is right, I hate robbery and
injustice; I will give them their recompense faithfully, a lasting
covenant I will make with them. [ISA 61:8]
The favors of the LORD I will recall, the glorious deeds
of the LORD, Because of all he has done for us; for he
is good to the house of Israel, He has favored us according
to his mercy and his great kindness. He said: They are indeed
my people, children who are not disloyal; So he became
their savior in their every affliction. It was not a
messenger or an angel, but he himself who saved them. Because
of his love and pity he redeemed them himself, Lifting
them and carrying them all the days of old. But they
rebelled, and grieved his holy spirit; So he turned on
them like an enemy, and fought against them. [ISA 63:7-10]
Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad because of her, all you who
love her; Exult, exult with her, all you who were mourning over
her! [ISA 66:10]
This word of the LORD came to me: Go, cry out this message for
Jerusalem to hear! I remember the devotion of your youth, how
you loved me as a bride, Following me in the desert, in
a land unsown. Sacred to the LORD was Israel, the first
fruits of his harvest; Should anyone presume to partake of
them, evil would befall him, says the LORD. [JER 2:1-3]
Stop wearing out your shoes and parching your throat! But
you say, "No use! no! I love these strangers, and
after them I must go." As the thief is shamed when caught, so
shall the house of Israel be shamed: They, their kings and
their princes, their priests and their prophets; They who say
to a piece of wood, "You are my father," and to a
stone, "You gave me birth." They turn to me their
backs, not their faces; yet, in their time of trouble they
cry out, "Rise up and save us!" [JER 2:25-27]
Does a virgin forget her jewelry, a bride her sash? Yet
my people have forgotten me days without number. How well you
pick your way when seeking love! You who, in your
wickedness, have gone by ways unclean! [JER 2:32-33]
If a man sends away his wife and, after leaving him, she
marries another man, Does the first husband come back to her?
Would not the land be wholly defiled? But you have sinned with
many lovers, and yet you would return to me! says the LORD. [JER
3:1]
But like a woman faithless to her lover, even so have you been
faithless to me, O house of Israel, says the LORD. [JER 3:20]
You now who are doomed, what do you mean by putting on purple,
bedecking yourself with gold, Shading your eyes with cosmetics,
beautifying yourself in vain? Your lovers spurn you, they seek
your life. [JER 4:30]
At that time, says the LORD, the bones of the kings and princes
of Judah, the bones of the priests and the prophets, and the bones
of the citizens of Jerusalem will be emptied out of their graves
and spread out before the sun and the moon and the whole army of
heaven, which they loved and served, which they followed,
consulted, and worshiped. They will not be gathered up for burial,
but will lie like dung upon the ground. Death will be preferred to
life by all the survivors of this wicked race who remain in any of
the places to which I banish them, says the LORD of hosts. [JER
8:1-3]
What right has my beloved in my house, while she prepares her
plots? [Taken from JER 11:15]
I abandon my house, cast off my heritage; The beloved
of my soul I deliver into the hand of her foes. My heritage
has turned on me like a lion in the jungle; Because she
has roared against me, I treat her as an enemy. [JER 12:7-8]
O Hope of Israel, O LORD, our savior in time of need! Why
should you be a stranger in this land, like a traveler who
has stopped but for a night? Why are you like a man dumbfounded, a
champion who cannot save? You are in our midst, O LORD, your
name we bear: do not forsake us! Thus says the LORD of this
people: They so love to wander that they do not spare
their feet. The LORD has no pleasure in them; now he
remembers their guilt, and will punish their sins. [JER
14:8-10]
Thus says the LORD: As you love your lives, take care not to
carry burdens on the sabbath day, to bring them in through the
gates of Jerusalem. Bring no burden from your homes on the
sabbath. Do no work whatever, but keep holy the sabbath, as I
commanded your fathers, though they did not listen or give ear,
but stiffened their necks so as not to hear or take correction.
[JER 17:21-23]
For thus says the LORD: Incurable is your wound, grievous
your bruise; There is none to plead your cause, no remedy for
your running sore, no healing for you. All your lovers have
forgotten you, they do not seek you. I struck you as an
enemy would strike, punished you cruelly; Why cry out over
your wound? your pain is without relief. Because of your
great guilt, your numerous sins, I have done this to
you. [JER 30:12-15]
Thus says the LORD: The people that escaped the sword have
found favor in the desert. As Israel comes forward to be
given his rest, the LORD appears to him from afar: With
age-old love I have loved you; so I have kept my mercy toward
you. Again I will restore you, and you shall be rebuilt, O
virgin Israel; Carrying your festive tambourines, you
shall go forth dancing with the merrymakers. [JER 31:2-4]
"I cried out to my lovers, but they failed me. My priests
and my elders perished in the city; Where they sought food for
themselves, they found it not." [LAM 1:19]
Such is our God; no other is to be compared to him: He has
traced out all the way of understanding, and has given her to
Jacob, his servant, to Israel, his beloved son. [BARUCH
3:36-37]
Again I passed by you and saw that you were now old enough for
love. So I spread the corner of my cloak over you to cover your
nakedness; I swore an oath to you and entered into a covenant with
you; you became mine, says the Lord GOD. Then I bathed you with
water, washed away your blood, and anointed you with oil. [EZEK
16:8-9]
For you name's sake, do not deliver us up forever, or make
void your covenant. Do not take away your mercy from us, for
the sake of Abraham, your beloved, Isaac your servant, and
Israel your holy one, To whom you promised to multiply their
offspring like the stars of heaven, or the sand on the
shores of the sea. For we are reduced, O Lord, beyond any other
nation, brought low everywhere in the world this day because
of our sins. [DAN 3:34-37]
I turned to the Lord God, pleading in earnest prayer, with
fasting, sackcloth, and ashes. I prayed to the LORD, my God, and
confessed, "Ah, Lord, great and awesome God, you who keep
your merciful covenant toward those who love you and observe your
commandments! We have sinned, been wicked and done evil; we have
rebelled and departed from your commandments and your laws. We
have not obeyed your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name
to our kings, our princes, our fathers, and all the people of the
land. Justice, O Lord, is on your side; we are shamefaced even to
this day: the men of Judah, the residents of Jerusalem, and all
Israel, near and far, in all the countries to which you have
scattered them because of their treachery toward you. O LORD, we
are shamefaced, like our kings, our princes, and our fathers, for
having sinned against you. But yours, O Lord, our God, are
compassion and forgiveness!" [Taken from DAN 9:3-9]
He instructed me in these words: "Daniel, I have now come
to give you understanding. When you began your petition, an answer
was given which I have come to announce, because you are beloved.
Therefore, mark the answer and understand the vision." [DAN
9:22-23]
When I heard the sound of his voice, I fell face forward in a
faint. But then a hand touched me, raising me to my hands and
knees. "Daniel, beloved," he said to me,
"understand the words which I am speaking to you; stand up,
for my mission now is to you." When he said this to me, I
stood up trembling. "Fear not, Daniel," he continued; "from the first day you made up your mind to acquire
understanding and humble yourself before God, your prayer was
heard. Because of it I started out, but the prince of the kingdom
of Persia stood in my way for twenty-one days, until finally
Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me. I left him
there with the prince of the kings of Persia, and came to make you
understand what shall happen to your people in the days to come;
for there is yet a vision concerning those days." While he
was speaking thus to me, I fell forward and kept silent. Then
something like a man's hand touched my lips; I opened my mouth and
said to the one facing me, "My lord, I was seized with pangs
at the vision and I was powerless. How can my lord's servant speak
with you, my lord? For now no strength or even breath is left in
me." The one who looked like a man touched me again and
strengthened me, saying, "Fear not, beloved, you are safe;
take courage and be strong." [DAN 10:9-19]
"You have remembered me, O God," said Daniel;
"you have not forsaken those who love you." [DAN 14:38]
On that day, says the LORD, She shall call me "My
husband," and never again "My baal." Then will
I remove from her mouth the names of the Baals, so that they
shall no longer be invoked. I will make a covenant for them on
that day, with the beasts of the field, With the birds
of the air, and with the things that crawl on the ground. Bow
and sword and war I will destroy from the land, and I
will let them take their rest in security. I will espouse you to
me forever: I will espouse you in right and in justice, in
love and in mercy; I will espouse you in fidelity, and you
shall know the LORD. [HOSEA 2:18-22]
When their carousing is over, they give themselves to harlotry;
in their arrogance they love shame. [HOSEA 4:18]
For it is love that I desire, not sacrifice [Taken from HOSEA
6:6]
Rejoice not, O Israel, exult not like the nations! For you have
been unfaithful to your God, loving a harlot's hire upon every
threshing floor. [HOSEA 9:1]
Like grapes in the desert, I found Israel; Like the first
fruits of the fig tree in its prime, I considered your fathers.
When they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to the
Shame, they became as abhorrent as the thing they loved. [HOSEA
9:10]
All their wickedness is in Gilgal; yes, there they incurred my
hatred. Because of their wicked deeds I will drive them out of my
house. I will love them no longer; all their princes are rebels.
[HOSEA 9:15]
When Israel was a child I loved him, out of Egypt I called my
son. [HOSEA 11:1]
I drew them with human cords, with bands of love; I fostered
them like one who raises an infant to his cheeks; Yet, though I
stooped to feed my child, they did not know that I was their
healer. [HOSEA 11:4]
I will heal their defection, I will love them freely; for
my wrath is turned away from them. I will be like the dew for
Israel: he shall blossom like the lily; He shall strike
root like the Lebanon cedar, and put forth his shoots. His
splendor shall be like the olive tree and his fragrance like
the Lebanon cedar. [HOSEA 14:5-7]
Hate evil and love good, and let justice prevail at the gate;
Then it may be that the LORD, the God of hosts, will have pity on
the remnant of Joseph. [AMOS 5:15]
And I said: Hear, you leaders of Jacob, rulers of the
house of Israel! Is it not your duty to know what is right, you
who hate what is good, and love evil? [Taken from MICAH
3:1-2]
You have been told, O man, what is good, and what the LORD
requires of you: Only to do right and to love goodness, and to
walk humbly with your God. [MICAH 6:8]
On that day, it shall be said to Jerusalem: Fear not, O
Zion, be not discouraged! The LORD, your God, is in your midst, a
mighty savior; He will rejoice over you with gladness, and
renew you in his love, He will sing joyfully because of you,
as one sings at festivals. I will remove disaster from among
you, so that none may recount your disgrace. [ZEPH 3:16-18]
Thus says the LORD of hosts: As I determined to harm you when
your fathers provoked me to wrath, says the LORD of hosts, and I
did not relent, so again in these days I have determined to favor
Jerusalem and the house of Judah; do not fear! These then are the
things you should do: Speak the truth to one another; let there be
honesty and peace in the judgments at your gates, and let none of
you plot evil against another in his heart, nor love a false oath.
For all these things I hate, says the LORD. [ZECH 8:14-17]
Thus says the LORD of hosts: The fast days of the fourth, the
fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months shall become occasions of
joy and gladness, cheerful festivals for the house of Judah; only
love faithfulness and peace. [ZECH 8:19]
I have loved you, says the LORD; but you say, "How
have you loved us?" Was not Esau Jacob's brother? says the
LORD: yet I loved Jacob, but hated Esau; I made his
mountains a waste, his heritage a desert for jackals. If Edom
says, "We have been crushed but we will rebuild the
ruins," Thus says the LORD of hosts: They indeed
may build, but I will tear down, And they shall be called the
land of guilt, the people with whom the LORD is angry
forever. Your own eyes shall see it, and you will say, "Great
is the LORD, even beyond the land of Israel." A son honors
his father, and a servant fears his master; If then I am
a father, where is the honor due to me? And if I am a
master, where is the reverence due to me? - So says the
LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise his name. But
you ask, "How have we despised your name?" [MAL 1:2-6]
Judah has broken faith; an abominable thing has been done in
Israel and in Jerusalem. Judah has profaned the temple which the
LORD loves, and has married an idolatrous woman. [MAL 2:11]
After Jesus was baptized, he came up from the water and behold,
the heavens were opened (for him), and he saw the Spirit of God
descending like a dove (and) coming upon him. And a voice came
from the heavens, saying, "This is my beloved Son, with whom
I am well pleased." [MT 3:16-17]
[Jesus said,] "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your
neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I say to you, love your
enemies, and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be
children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the
bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the
unjust. For if you love those who love you, what recompense will
you have? Do not the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet
your brothers only, what is unusual about that? Do not the pagans
do the same? So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is
perfect." [Taken from MT 5:43-48]
"When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, who love to
stand and pray in the synagogues and on street corners so that
others may see them. Amen, I say to you, they have received their
reward." [MT 6:5]
"No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and
love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You
cannot serve God and mammon." [MT 6:24]
[Jesus said,] "Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy
of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not
worthy of me; and whoever does not take up his cross and follow
after me is not worthy of me." [Taken from MT 10:37-38]
When Jesus realized this, he withdrew from that place. Many
(people) followed him, and he cured them all, but he warned them
not to make him known. This was to fulfill what had been spoken
through Isaiah the prophet: "Behold, my servant whom I have
chosen, my beloved in whom I delight; I shall place my
spirit upon him, and he will proclaim justice to the
Gentiles. He will not contend or cry out, nor will anyone
hear his voice in the streets. A bruised reed he will not break, a
smoldering wick he will not quench, until he brings justice to
victory. And in his name the Gentiles will hope." [MT
12:15-21]
After six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother,
and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was
transfigured before them; his face shone like the sun and his
clothes became white as light. And behold, Moses and Elijah
appeared to them, conversing with him. Then Peter said to Jesus in
reply, "Lord, it is good that we are here. If you wish, I
will make three tents here, one for you, one for Moses, and one
for Elijah." While he was still speaking, behold, a bright
cloud cast a shadow over them, then from the cloud came a voice
that said, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well
pleased; listen to him." When the disciples heard this, they
fell prostrate and were very much afraid. But Jesus came and
touched them, saying, "Rise, and do not be afraid." [MT
17:1-7]
Now someone approached him and said, "Teacher, what good
must I do to gain eternal life?" He answered him, "Why
do you ask me about the good? There is only One who is good. If
you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments." He asked
him, "Which ones?" And Jesus replied, "'You shall
not kill; you shall not commit adultery; you shall not steal; you
shall not bear false witness; honor your father and your mother';
and 'you shall love your neighbor as yourself.'" The young
man said to him, "All of these I have observed. What do I
still lack?" Jesus said to him, "If you wish to be
perfect, go, sell what you have and give to (the) poor, and you
will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me." [MT
19:16-21]
When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees,
they gathered together, and one of them (a scholar of the law)
tested him by asking, "Teacher, which commandment in the law
is the greatest?" He said to him, "You shall love the
Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with
all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The
second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The
whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."
[MT 22:34-40]
Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples, saying,
"The scribes and the Pharisees have taken their seat on the
chair of Moses. Therefore, do and observe all things whatsoever
they tell you, but do not follow their example. For they preach
but they do not practice. They tie up heavy burdens (hard to
carry) and lay them on people's shoulders, but they will not lift
a finger to move them. All their works are performed to be seen.
They widen their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels. They
love places of honor at banquets, seats of honor in synagogues,
greetings in marketplaces, and the salutation 'Rabbi.'" [MT 23:1-7]
Then they will hand you over to persecution, and they will kill
you. You will be hated by all nations because of my name. And then
many will be led into sin; they will betray and hate one another.
Many false prophets will arise and deceive many; and because of
the increase of evildoing, the love of many will grow cold. But
the one who perseveres to the end will be saved. [MT 24:9-13]
It happened in those days that Jesus came from Nazareth of
Galilee and was baptized in the Jordan by John. On coming up out
of the water he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit,
like a dove, descending upon him. And a voice came from the
heavens, "You are my beloved Son; with you I am well
pleased." [MK 1:9-11]
After six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John and led them
up a high mountain apart by themselves. And he was transfigured
before them, and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no
fuller on earth could bleach them. Then Elijah appeared to them
along with Moses, and they were conversing with Jesus. Then Peter
said to Jesus in reply, "Rabbi, it is good that we are here!
Let us make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for
Elijah." He hardly knew what to say, they were so terrified.
Then a cloud came, casting a shadow over them; then from the cloud
came a voice, "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him."
Suddenly, looking around, they no longer saw anyone but Jesus
alone with them. [MK 9:2-8]
As he was setting out on a journey, a man ran up, knelt down
before him, and asked him, "Good teacher, what must I do to
inherit eternal life?" Jesus answered him, "Why do you
call me good? No one is good but God alone. You know the
commandments: 'You shall not kill; you shall not commit adultery;
you shall not steal; you shall not bear false witness; you shall
not defraud; honor your father and your mother.'" He replied
and said to him, "Teacher, all of these I have observed from
my youth." Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said to him,
"You are lacking in one thing. Go, sell what you have, and
give to (the) poor and you will have treasure in heaven; then
come, follow me." [MK 10:17-21]
He began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a
vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a wine press, and built a
tower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and left on a journey.
At the proper time he sent a servant to the tenants to obtain from
them some of the produce of the vineyard. But they seized him,
beat him, and sent him away empty-handed. Again he sent them
another servant. And that one they beat over the head and treated
shamefully. He sent yet another whom they killed. So, too, many
others; some they beat, others they killed. He had one other to
send, a beloved son. He sent him to them last of all, thinking,
'They will respect my son.' But those tenants said to one another,
'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will
be ours.' So they seized him and killed him, and threw him out of
the vineyard. What (then) will the owner of the vineyard do? He
will come, put the tenants to death, and give the vineyard to
others. Have you not read this scripture passage: 'The stone
that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; by the
Lord has this been done, and it is wonderful in our
eyes'?" They were seeking to arrest him, but they feared the
crowd, for they realized that he had addressed the parable to
them. So they left him and went away. [MK 12:1-12]
One of the scribes, when he came forward and heard them
disputing and saw how well he had answered them, asked him,
"Which is the first of all the commandments?" Jesus
replied, "The first is this: 'Hear, O Israel! The Lord our
God is Lord alone! You shall love the Lord your God with all your
heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your
strength.' The second is this: 'You shall love your neighbor as
yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."
[MK 12:28-31]
After all the people had been baptized and Jesus also had been
baptized and was praying, heaven was opened and the Holy Spirit
descended upon him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came
from heaven, "You are my beloved Son; with you I am well
pleased." [LK 3:21-22]
"But to you who hear I say, love your enemies, do good to
those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who
mistreat you. To the person who strikes you on one cheek, offer
the other one as well, and from the person who takes your cloak,
do not withhold even your tunic. Give to everyone who asks of you,
and from the one who takes what is yours do not demand it back. Do
to others as you would have them do to you. For if you love those
who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those
who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you,
what credit is that to you? Even sinners do the same. If you lend
money to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit (is)
that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, and get back the same
amount. But rather, love your enemies and do good to them, and
lend expecting nothing back; then your reward will be great and
you will be children of the Most High, for he himself is kind to
the ungrateful and the wicked. Be merciful, just as (also) your
Father is merciful." [LK 6:27-36]
Jesus said to him in reply, "Simon, I have something to
say to you." "Tell me, teacher," he said. "Two
people were in debt to a certain creditor; one owed five hundred
days' wages and the other owed fifty. Since they were unable to
repay the debt, he forgave it for both. Which of them will love
him more?" Simon said in reply, "The one, I suppose,
whose larger debt was forgiven." He said to him, "You
have judged rightly." Then he turned to the woman and said to
Simon, "Do you see this woman? When I entered your house, you
did not give me water for my feet, but she has bathed them with
her tears and wiped them with her hair. You did not give me a
kiss, but she has not ceased kissing my feet since the time I
entered. You did not anoint my head with oil, but she anointed my
feet with ointment. So I tell you, her many sins have been
forgiven; hence, she has shown great love. But the one to whom
little is forgiven, loves little." [LK 7:40-47]
There was a scholar of the law who stood up to test him and
said, "Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"
Jesus said to him, "What is written in the law? How do you
read it?" He said in reply, "You shall love the Lord,
your God, with all your heart, with all your being, with all your
strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as
yourself." He replied to him, "You have answered
correctly; do this and you will live." [LK 10:25-28]
"Woe to you Pharisees! You pay tithes of mint and of rue and of
every garden herb, but you pay no attention to judgment and to
love for God. These you should have done, without overlooking the
others." [LK 11:42]
"Woe to you Pharisees! You love the seat of honor in synagogues
and greetings in marketplaces. Woe to you! You are like unseen
graves over which people unknowingly walk." [LK 11:43-44]
"No servant can serve two masters. He will either hate one and
love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You
cannot serve God and mammon." The Pharisees, who loved money,
heard all these things and sneered at him. And he said to them,
"You justify yourselves in the sight of others, but God knows
your hearts; for what is of human esteem is an abomination in the
sight of God." [LK 16:13-15]
Then he proceeded to tell the people this parable. "(A)
man planted a vineyard, leased it to tenant farmers, and then went
on a journey for a long time. At harvest time he sent a servant to
the tenant farmers to receive some of the produce of the vineyard.
But they beat the servant and sent him away empty-handed. So he
proceeded to send another servant, but him also they beat and
insulted and sent away empty-handed. Then he proceeded to send a
third, but this one too they wounded and threw out. The owner of
the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I shall send my beloved son;
maybe they will respect him.' But when the tenant farmers saw him
they said to one another, 'This is the heir. Let us kill him that
the inheritance may become ours.' So they threw him out of the
vineyard and killed him. What will the owner of the vineyard do to
them? He will come and put those tenant farmers to death and turn
over the vineyard to others." When the people heard this,
they exclaimed, "Let it not be so!" But he looked at
them and asked, "What then does this scripture passage mean: 'The
stone which the builders rejected has become the
cornerstone'? Everyone who falls on that stone will be dashed to
pieces; and it will crush anyone on whom it falls." [LK
20:9-18]
Then, within the hearing of all the people, he said to (his)
disciples, "Be on guard against the scribes, who like to go
around in long robes and love greetings in marketplaces, seats of
honor in synagogues, and places of honor at banquets. They devour
the houses of widows and, as a pretext, recite lengthy prayers.
They will receive a very severe condemnation." [LK 20:45-47]
For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that
everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have
eternal life. [JN 3:16]
The Father loves the Son and has given everything over to him.
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever disobeys
the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains upon him.
[JN 3:35-36]
Jesus answered and said to them, "Amen, amen, I say to
you, a son cannot do anything on his own, but only what he sees
his father doing; for what he does, his son will do also. For the
Father loves his Son and shows him everything that he himself
does, and he will show him greater works than these, so that you
may be amazed. For just as the Father raises the dead and gives
life, so also does the Son give life to whomever he wishes." [JN
5:19-21]
"I do not accept human praise; moreover, I know that
you do not have the love of God in you. I came in the name of my
Father, but you do not accept me; yet if another comes in his own
name, you will accept him. How can you believe, when you accept
praise from one another and do not seek the praise that comes from
the only God? Do not think that I will accuse you before the
Father: the one who will accuse you is Moses, in whom you have
placed your hope. For if you had believed Moses, you would have
believed me, because he wrote about me. But if you do not believe
his writings, how will you believe my words?" [JN 5:41-47]
They answered and said to him, "Our father is
Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's
children, you would be doing the works of Abraham. But now you are
trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard
from God; Abraham did not do this. You are doing the works of your
father!" (So) they said to him, "We are not
illegitimate. We have one Father, God." Jesus said to them,
"If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from
God and am here; I did not come on my own, but he sent me."
[JN
8:39-42]
"This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in
order to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it
down on my own. I have power to lay it down, and power to take it
up again. This command I have received from my Father." [JN
10:17-18]
Now a man was ill, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary
and her sister Martha. Mary was the one who had anointed the Lord
with perfumed oil and dried his feet with her hair; it was her
brother Lazarus who was ill. So the sisters sent word to him,
saying, "Master, the one you love is ill." When Jesus
heard this he said, "This illness is not to end in death, but
is for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified
through it." Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and
Lazarus. So when he heard that he was ill, he remained for two
days in the place where he was. Then after this he said to his
disciples, "Let us go back to Judea." When Jesus
arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for
four days When Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell
at his feet and said to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my
brother would not have died." When Jesus saw her weeping and
the Jews who had come with her weeping, he became perturbed and
deeply troubled, and said, "Where have you laid him?"
They said to him, "Sir, come and see." And Jesus wept.
So the Jews said, "See how he loved him." But some of
them said, "Could not the one who opened the eyes of the
blind man have done something so that this man would not have
died?" So Jesus, perturbed again, came to the tomb. It was a
cave, and a stone lay across it. Jesus said, "Take away the
stone." Martha, the dead man's sister, said to him,
"Lord, by now there will be a stench; he has been dead for
four days." Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that
if you believe you will see the glory of God?" So they took
away the stone. And Jesus raised his eyes and said, "Father,
I thank you for hearing me. I know that you always hear me; but
because of the crowd here I have said this, that they may believe
that you sent me." And when he had said this, he cried out in
a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!" The dead man came
out, tied hand and foot with burial bands, and his face was
wrapped in a cloth. So Jesus said to them, "Untie him and let
him go." [JN 11:1-7,17,32-44]
Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in
this world will preserve it for eternal life. [JN 12:25]
Before the feast of Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come
to pass from this world to the Father. He loved his own in the
world and he loved them to the end. [JN 13:1]
When he had said this, Jesus was deeply troubled and testified,
"Amen, amen, I say to you, one of you will betray me."
The disciples looked at one another, at a loss as to whom he
meant. One of his disciples, the one whom Jesus loved, was
reclining at Jesus' side. So Simon Peter nodded to him to find out
whom he meant. He leaned back against Jesus' chest and said to
him, "Master, who is it?" Jesus answered, "It is
the one to whom I hand the morsel after I have dipped it." So
he dipped the morsel and (took it and) handed it to Judas, son of
Simon the Iscariot. [JN 13:21-26]
"I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved
you, so you also should love one another. This is how all will
know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one
another." [JN 13:34-35]
[Jesus said,] "If you love me, you will keep my commandments."
[Taken from JN 14:15]
"Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who
loves me. And whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I
will love him and reveal myself to him." [JN 14:21]
Jesus answered and said to him, "Whoever loves me will
keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him
and make our dwelling with him. Whoever does not love me does not
keep my words; yet the word you hear is not mine but that of the
Father who sent me. I have told you this while I am with
you. The Advocate, the Holy Spirit that the Father will send in my
name - he will teach you everything and remind you of all that (I)
told you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as
the world gives do I give it to you. Do not let your hearts be
troubled or afraid. You heard me tell you, 'I am going away and I
will come back to you.' If you loved me, you would rejoice that I
am going to the Father; for the Father is greater than I. And now
I have told you this before it happens, so that when it happens
you may believe. I will no longer speak much with you, for the
ruler of the world is coming. He has no power over me, but the
world must know that I love the Father and that I do just as the
Father has commanded me. Get up, let us go." [JN 14:23-31]
As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love.
If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I
have kept my Father's commandments and remain in his love. [JN
15:9-10]
This is my commandment: love one another as I love you. No one
has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's
friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I no
longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his
master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have told
you everything I have heard from my Father. It was not you who
chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear
fruit that will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my
name he may give you. This I command you: love one another. [JN
15:12-17]
"If the world hates you, realize that it hated me first.
If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but
because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out
of the world, the world hates you. Remember the word I spoke to
you, 'No slave is greater than his master.' If they persecuted me,
they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also
keep yours. And they will do all these things to you on account of
my name, because they do not know the one who sent me." [JN
15:18-21]
For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and
have come to believe that I came from God. [JN 16:27]
As you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world.
And I consecrate myself for them, so that they also may be
consecrated in truth. "I pray not only for them, but also for
those who will believe in me through their word, so that they may
all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also
may be in us, that the world may believe that you sent me. And I
have given them the glory you gave me, so that they may be one, as
we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may be brought to
perfection as one, that the world may know that you sent me, and
that you loved them even as you loved me. Father, they are your
gift to me. I wish that where I am they also may be with me, that
they may see my glory that you gave me, because you loved me
before the foundation of the world. Righteous Father, the world
also does not know you, but I know you, and they know that you
sent me. I made known to them your name and I will make it known,
that the love with which you loved me may be in them and I in
them." [JN 17:18-26]
Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother's
sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. When Jesus
saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved, he said to
his mother, "Woman, behold, your son." Then he said to
the disciple, "Behold, your mother." And from that hour
the disciple took her into his home. [JN 19:25-27]
On the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb
early in the morning, while it was still dark, and saw the stone
removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and to
the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them, "They
have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don't know where they
put him." [JN 20:1-2]
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