"Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?"

"If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:"

"Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:"

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

"Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;"

"Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king."

"Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:"

"For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:"

"Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:"

"For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."

"Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;"

"This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:"

"But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."

"Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless."

"And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;"

"Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness."

"But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him."

"He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him."

"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him."

"Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not."