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b"1 Corinthians 13:1-7\\n13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have\\xa0prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith,\\xa0so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and\\xa0if I deliver up my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, I gain nothing.\\n\\n4 Love is patient and\\xa0kind; love\\xa0does not envy or boast; it\\xa0is not arrogant 5 or rude. It\\xa0does not insist on its own way; it\\xa0is not irritable or resentful;[b] 6 it\\xa0does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but\\xa0rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,\\xa0endures all things.\\n\\n1 John 3:11-24\\n\\n11 For\\xa0this is the message that you have heard from the beginning,\\xa0that we should love one another. 12 We should not be like\\xa0Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him?\\xa0Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous. 13 Do not be surprised, brothers,[a] that the world hates you. 14 We know that\\xa0we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death. 15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that\\xa0no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.\\n\\n16 By this we know love, that\\xa0he laid down his life for us, and\\xa0we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 17 But\\xa0if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet\\xa0closes his heart against him,\\xa0how does God's love abide in him? 18 Little children, let us not\\xa0love in word or talk but in deed and\\xa0in truth.\\n\\n19 By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him; 20 for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything. 21 Beloved,\\xa0if our heart does not condemn us,\\xa0we have confidence before God; 22 and\\xa0whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and\\xa0do what pleases him. 23 And this is his commandment,\\xa0that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and\\xa0love one another,\\xa0just as he has commanded us. 24 Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God,[b] and God[c] in him. And\\xa0by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.\\n\\n1 John 4:7-21\\n\\n7 Beloved,\\xa0let us love one another, for love is from God, and\\xa0whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because\\xa0God is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that\\xa0God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love,\\xa0not that we have loved God\\xa0but that he loved us and sent his Son to be\\xa0the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and\\xa0his love is perfected in us.\\n\\n13 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14 And\\xa0we have seen and testify that\\xa0the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of\\xa0the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 So\\xa0we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us.\\xa0God is love, and\\xa0whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 17 By this\\xa0is love perfected with us, so that\\xa0we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because\\xa0as he is so also are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love, butperfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not\\xa0been perfected in love. 19 We love because he first loved us. 20 If anyone says, \\u201cI love God,\\u201d and\\xa0hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot[a] love God\\xa0whom he has not seen. 21 And\\xa0this commandment we have from him:\\xa0whoever loves God must also love his brother.\\n\\nBig Idea: For two people to date and marry, they ought to commit to kno"