Jesus on Love (2)
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“You have heard that it was said, Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.
But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
For if you love those who love you, what reward will you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?
“Whenever you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by people. Truly I tell you, they have their reward.
“No one can serve two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
The one who loves a father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; the one who loves a son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
honor your father and your mother; and love your neighbor as yourself.
He said to him, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.
The second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.
They love the place of honor at banquets, the front seats in the synagogues,
Because lawlessness will multiply, the love of many will grow cold.
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, Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other command greater than these.”
“But I say to you who listen: Love your enemies, do what is good to those who hate you,
If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.
But love your enemies, do what is good, and lend, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High. For he is gracious to the ungrateful and evil.
Since they could not pay it back, he graciously forgave them both. So, which of them will love him more?”
Therefore I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven; that’s why she loved much. But the one who is forgiven little, loves little.”
“But woe to you Pharisees! You give a tenth of mint, rue, and every kind of herb, and you bypass justice and love for God. These things you should have done without neglecting the others.
“Woe to you Pharisees! You love the front seat in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces.
No servant can serve two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”
“Beware of the scribes, who want to go around in long robes and who love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the places of honor at banquets.
For God loved the world in this way: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
This is the judgment: The light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.
For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he is doing, and he will show him greater works than these so that you will be amazed.
but I know you—that you have no love for God within you.
Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, because I came from God and I am here. For I didn’t come on my own, but he sent me.
This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life so that I may take it up again.
The one who loves his life will lose it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
“I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another.
By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
“If you love me, you will keep my commands.
The one who has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. And the one who loves me will be loved by my Father. I also will love him and will reveal myself to him.”
Jesus answered, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
The one who doesn’t love me will not keep my words. The word that you hear is not mine but is from the Father who sent me.
You have heard me tell you, ‘I am going away and I am coming to you.’ If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.
On the contrary, so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do as the Father commanded me.
“Get up; let’s leave this place.
“As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you. Remain in my love.
If you keep my commands you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.
“This is my command: Love one another as I have loved you.
No one has greater love than this: to lay down his life for his friends.
“This is what I command you: Love one another.
If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.
For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.
I am in them and you are in me, so that they may be made completely one, that the world may know you have sent me and have loved them as you have loved me.
“Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they will see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the world’s foundation.
I made your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love you have loved me with may be in them and I may be in them.”
When they had eaten breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?”
“Yes, Lord,” he said to him, “you know that I love you.”
“Feed my lambs,” he told him.
A second time he asked him, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?”
“Yes, Lord,” he said to him, “you know that I love you.”
“Shepherd my sheep,” he told him.
He asked him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?”
Peter was grieved that he asked him the third time, “Do you love me?” He said, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.”
“Feed my sheep,” Jesus said.