Colossians 3:14

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and above all these things, `have' love, which is a bond of the perfection,

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  • Eph 4:3 : 3 being diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of the peace;
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,
  • 1 Pet 4:8 : 8 and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;
  • 1 Tim 1:5 : 5 And the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned,
  • 1 John 4:21 : 21 and this `is' the command we have from Him, that he who is loving God, may also love his brother.
  • John 13:34 : 34 `A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;
  • Rom 13:8 : 8 To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other -- law he hath fulfilled,
  • 1 Cor 13:1-9 : 1 If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; 2 and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing; 3 and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing. 4 The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, 5 doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil, 6 rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth; 7 all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth. 8 The love doth never fail; and whether `there be' prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless; 9 for in part we know, and in part we prophecy; 10 and when that which is perfect may come, then that which `is' in part shall become useless. 11 When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe; 12 for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known; 13 and now there doth remain faith, hope, love -- these three; and the greatest of these `is' love.
  • Eph 1:4 : 4 according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,
  • John 15:12 : 12 `This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;
  • John 17:23 : 23 I in them, and Thou in me, that they may be perfected into one, and that the world may know that Thou didst send me, and didst love them as Thou didst love me.
  • Col 2:2 : 2 that their hearts may be comforted, being united in love, and to all riches of the full assurance of the understanding, to the full knowledge of the secret of the God and Father, and of the Christ,
  • 1 Thess 4:9 : 9 And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of `my' writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another,
  • Heb 6:1 : 1 Wherefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, unto the perfection we may advance, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God,
  • 2 Pet 1:7 : 7 and in the piety the brotherly kindness, and in the brotherly kindness the love;
  • 1 John 3:23 : 23 and this is His command, that we may believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and may love one another, even as He did give command to us,
  • 1 John 4:7-9 : 7 Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God; 8 he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love. 9 In this was manifested the love of God in us, because His Son -- the only begotten -- hath God sent to the world, that we may live through him; 10 in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love; 12 God no one hath ever seen; if we may love one another, God in us doth remain, and His love is having been perfected in us;

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    13 and now there doth remain faith, hope, love -- these three; and the greatest of these `is' love.

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