Love releases the power of the Spirit in our lives and in our churches.

Love believes the best and does not pick people apart. Love hopes for the best and does not predict the worst.

Love never gives up. Love is just a decision away. Choose love in the small ways.

The Lord did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples;

This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you. 13 There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command.

24 Then God said, "Let the earth produce every sort of animal, each producing offspring of the same kind-livestock, small animals that scurry along the ground, and wild animals." And that is what happened. 25 God made all sorts of wild animals, livestock, and small animals, each able to produce offspring of the same kind. And God saw that it was good. 26 Then God said, "Let us make human beings in our image, to be like ourselves. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground." 27 So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; Male and female he created them.

He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour's hand, you shall not oppress one another:

You shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD your God.

And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating down one another.

And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of a place toward the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded.

And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

A new commandment I give unto you, That you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

This is my commandment, That you love one another, as I have loved you.

These things I command you, that you love one another.

Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)

Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loves another hath fulfilled the law.

Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.

Wherefore receive you one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.

And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

Salute one another with an holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you.

For, brethren, you have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you be not consumed one of another.

Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

And be you kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do you.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

But as touching brotherly love you need not that I write unto you: for you yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also you do.

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as you see the day approaching.

Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that you love one another with a pure heart fervently:

Greet you one another with a kiss of charity. Peace be with you all that are in Christ Jesus. Amen.

For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loves is born of God, and knows God.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and his love is perfected in us.

And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

For the Lord God is our sun and our shield.
He gives us grace and glory.
The Lord will withhold no good thing
from those who do what is right.

Then Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do."

We love Him because He first loved us.