LOVE

Passages on this topic · 300

• Exodus 20:6

  and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

• Leviticus 19:18

  “‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

• Leviticus 19:34

  The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.

• Deuteronomy 5:10

  and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

• Deuteronomy 6:5

  You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

• Deuteronomy 7:9

  Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

• Deuteronomy 10:12

  Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

• Deuteronomy 10:19

  Therefore love the foreigner; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

• Deuteronomy 11:1

  Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.

• Deuteronomy 11:13

  It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

• Deuteronomy 11:22

  For if you shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cling to him;

• Deuteronomy 13:3

  you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for Yahweh your God is testing you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

• Deuteronomy 30:6

  Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.

• Deuteronomy 30:16

  For I command you today to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.

• Deuteronomy 30:20

  to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days; that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

• Joshua 22:5

  Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

• Joshua 23:11

  Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love Yahweh your God.

• Psalms 18:1

  For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of Yahweh, who spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said, I love you, Yahweh, my strength.

• Psalms 31:23

  Oh love Yahweh, all you his saints! Yahweh preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.

• Psalms 37:4

  Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

• Psalms 45:10

  Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father’s house.

• Psalms 45:11

  So the king will desire your beauty, honor him, for he is your lord.

• Psalms 63:5

  My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,

• Psalms 63:6

  when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.

• Psalms 69:35

  For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it.

• Psalms 69:36

  The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell therein.

• Psalms 73:25

  Whom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you.

• Psalms 73:26

  My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

• Psalms 91:14

  “Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

• Psalms 97:10

  You who love Yahweh, hate evil. He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

• Psalms 116:1

  I love Yahweh, because he listens to my voice, and my cries for mercy.

• Psalms 133:1

  A Song of Ascents. By David. See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

• Psalms 133:2

  It is like the precious oil on the head, that ran down on the beard, even Aaron’s beard; that came down on the edge of his robes;

• Psalms 133:3

  like the dew of Hermon, that comes down on the hills of Zion: for there Yahweh gives the blessing, even life forever more.

• Psalms 145:20

  Yahweh preserves all those who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy.

• Proverbs 8:6

  Hear, for I will speak excellent things. The opening of my lips is for right things.

• Proverbs 8:7

  For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

• Proverbs 8:17

  I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

• Proverbs 10:12

  Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

• Proverbs 15:17

  Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred.

• Proverbs 17:9

  He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

• Proverbs 17:17

  A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

• Proverbs 23:26

  My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

• Isaiah 56:6

  Also the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh, to serve him, and to love Yahweh’s name, to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and holds fast my covenant;

• Isaiah 56:7

  I will bring these to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”

• Jeremiah 2:2

  “Go, and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

• Jeremiah 2:3

  Israel was holiness to Yahweh, the first fruits of his increase. All who devour him shall be held guilty. Evil shall come on them,”’ says Yahweh.”

• Matthew 5:41

  Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two.

• Matthew 5:42

  Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you.

• Matthew 5:43

  “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’

• Matthew 5:44

  But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

• Matthew 5:45

  that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

• Matthew 5:46

  For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?

• Matthew 5:47

  If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?

• Matthew 7:12

  Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

• Matthew 10:37

  He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.

• Matthew 10:38

  He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me, isn’t worthy of me.

• Matthew 10:41

  He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. He who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward.

• Matthew 10:42

  Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”

• Matthew 17:4

  Peter answered, and said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you want, let’s make three tents here: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”

• Matthew 19:19

  ‘Honor your father and your mother.’ And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”

• Matthew 22:37

  Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

• Matthew 22:38

  This is the first and great commandment.

• Matthew 25:34

  Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

• Matthew 25:35

  for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.

• Matthew 25:36

  I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’

• Matthew 25:37

  “Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you; or thirsty, and give you a drink?

• Matthew 25:38

  When did we see you as a stranger, and take you in; or naked, and clothe you?

• Matthew 25:39

  When did we see you sick, or in prison, and come to you?’

• Matthew 25:40

  “The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

• Matthew 26:6

  Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,

• Matthew 26:7

  a woman came to him having an alabaster jar of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table.

• Matthew 26:8

  But when his disciples saw this, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste?

• Matthew 26:9

  For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.”

• Matthew 26:10

  However, knowing this, Jesus said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? Because she has done a good work for me.

• Matthew 26:11

  For you always have the poor with you; but you don’t always have me.

• Matthew 26:12

  For in pouring this ointment on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.

• Matthew 26:13

  Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of as a memorial of her.”

• Matthew 27:55

  Many women were there watching from afar, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, serving him.

• Matthew 27:56

  Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

• Matthew 27:57

  When evening had come, a rich man from Arimathaea, named Joseph, who himself was also Jesus’ disciple came.

• Matthew 27:58

  This man went to Pilate, and asked for Jesus’ body. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given up.

• Matthew 27:59

  Joseph took the body, and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,

• Matthew 27:60

  and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out in the rock, and he rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, and departed.

• Matthew 27:61

  Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting opposite the tomb.

• Matthew 28:1

  Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.

• Matthew 28:2

  Behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from the sky, and came and rolled away the stone from the door, and sat on it.

• Matthew 28:3

  His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow.

• Matthew 28:4

  For fear of him, the guards shook, and became like dead men.

• Matthew 28:5

  The angel answered the women, “Don’t be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus, who has been crucified.

• Matthew 28:6

  He is not here, for he has risen, just like he said. Come, see the place where the Lord was lying.

• Matthew 28:7

  Go quickly and tell his disciples, ‘He has risen from the dead, and behold, he goes before you into Galilee; there you will see him.’ Behold, I have told you.”

• Matthew 28:8

  They departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to bring his disciples word.

• Matthew 28:9

  As they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, “Rejoice!” They came and took hold of his feet, and worshiped him.

• Mark 5:18

  As he was entering into the boat, he who had been possessed by demons begged him that he might be with him.

• Mark 9:41

  For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you are Christ’s, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward.

• Mark 12:29

  Jesus answered, “The greatest is, ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one:

• Mark 12:30

  you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment.

• Mark 12:31

  The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

• Mark 12:32

  The scribe said to him, “Truly, teacher, you have said well that he is one, and there is none other but he,

• Mark 12:33

  and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

• Mark 16:10

  She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept.

• Luke 2:29

  “Now you are releasing your servant, Master, according to your word, in peace;

• Luke 2:30

  for my eyes have seen your salvation,

• Luke 6:31

  “As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

• Luke 6:32

  If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

• Luke 6:33

  If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

• Luke 6:34

  If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much.

• Luke 6:35

  But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

• Luke 7:47

  Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little.”

• Luke 8:2

  and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out;

• Luke 8:3

  and Joanna, the wife of Chuzas, Herod’s steward; Susanna; and many others; who served them from their possessions.

• Luke 10:30

  Jesus answered, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead.

• Luke 10:31

  By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

• Luke 10:32

  In the same way a Levite also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side.

• Luke 10:33

  But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion,

• Luke 10:34

  came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

• Luke 10:35

  On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, and gave them to the host, and said to him, ‘Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return.’

• Luke 10:36

  Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?”

• Luke 10:37

  He said, “He who showed mercy on him.” Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”

• Luke 10:39

  She had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet, and heard his word.

• Luke 11:42

  But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and God’s love. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

• Luke 23:27

  A great multitude of the people followed him, including women who also mourned and lamented him.

• Luke 23:55

  The women, who had come with him out of Galilee, followed after, and saw the tomb, and how his body was laid.

• Luke 23:56

  They returned, and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

• Luke 24:1

  But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they and some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared.

• Luke 24:2

  They found the stone rolled away from the tomb.

• Luke 24:3

  They entered in, and didn’t find the Lord Jesus’ body.

• Luke 24:4

  While they were greatly perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling clothing.

• Luke 24:5

  Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth. They said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead?

• Luke 24:6

  He isn’t here, but is risen. Remember what he told you when he was still in Galilee,

• Luke 24:7

  saying that the Son of Man must be delivered up into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again?”

• Luke 24:8

  They remembered his words,

• Luke 24:9

  returned from the tomb, and told all these things to the eleven, and to all the rest.

• Luke 24:10

  Now they were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James. The other women with them told these things to the apostles.

• Luke 24:17

  He said to them, “What are you talking about as you walk, and are sad?”

• Luke 24:18

  One of them, named Cleopas, answered him, “Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem who doesn’t know the things which have happened there in these days?”

• Luke 24:19

  He said to them, “What things?” They said to him, “The things concerning Jesus, the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;

• Luke 24:20

  and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.

• Luke 24:21

  But we were hoping that it was he who would redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened.

• Luke 24:22

  Also, certain women of our company amazed us, having arrived early at the tomb;

• Luke 24:23

  and when they didn’t find his body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.

• Luke 24:24

  Some of us went to the tomb, and found it just like the women had said, but they didn’t see him.”

• Luke 24:25

  He said to them, “Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

• Luke 24:26

  Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?”

• Luke 24:27

  Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

• Luke 24:28

  They came near to the village, where they were going, and he acted like he would go further.

• Luke 24:29

  They urged him, saying, “Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over.” He went in to stay with them.

• Luke 24:30

  When he had sat down at the table with them, he took the bread and gave thanks. Breaking it, he gave to them.

• Luke 24:31

  Their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he vanished out of their sight.

• Luke 24:32

  They said to one another, “Weren’t our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?”

• Luke 24:33

  They rose up that very hour, returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and those who were with them,

• Luke 24:34

  saying, “The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!”

• Luke 24:35

  They related the things that happened along the way, and how he was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.

• Luke 24:36

  As they said these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”

• Luke 24:37

  But they were terrified and filled with fear, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.

• Luke 24:38

  He said to them, “Why are you troubled? Why do doubts arise in your hearts?

• Luke 24:39

  See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn’t have flesh and bones, as you see that I have.”

• Luke 24:40

  When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.

• Luke 24:41

  While they still didn’t believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them, “Do you have anything here to eat?”

• John 5:42

  But I know you, that you don’t have God’s love in yourselves.

• John 8:42

  Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.

• John 11:16

  Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s go also, that we may die with him.”

• John 12:3

  Mary, therefore, took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.

• John 12:4

  Then Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, one of his disciples, who would betray him, said,

• John 12:5

  “Why wasn’t this ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?”

• John 12:6

  Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.

• John 12:7

  But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial.

• John 12:8

  For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.”

• John 13:14

  If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.

• John 13:15

  For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.

• John 13:34

  A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

• John 13:35

  By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

• John 13:37

  Peter said to him, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”

• John 14:15

  If you love me, keep my commandments.

• John 14:21

  One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”

• John 14:23

  Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

• John 14:28

  You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I.

• John 15:9

  Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

• John 15:12

  “This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

• John 15:13

  Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

• John 15:17

  “I command these things to you, that you may love one another.

• John 16:27

  for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.

• John 17:26

  I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

• John 18:10

  Simon Peter therefore, having a sword, drew it, and struck the high priest’s servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus.

• John 19:39

  Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds.

• John 19:40

  So they took Jesus’ body, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury.

• John 20:1

  Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.

• John 20:2

  Therefore she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have laid him!”

• John 20:3

  Therefore Peter and the other disciple went out, and they went toward the tomb.

• John 20:4

  They both ran together. The other disciple outran Peter, and came to the tomb first.

• John 20:5

  Stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying, yet he didn’t enter in.

• John 20:6

  Then Simon Peter came, following him, and entered into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying,

• John 20:11

  But Mary was standing outside at the tomb weeping. So, as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb,

• John 20:12

  and she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.

• John 20:13

  They told her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I don’t know where they have laid him.”

• John 20:14

  When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, and didn’t know that it was Jesus.

• John 20:15

  Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?” She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.”

• John 20:16

  Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned and said to him, “Rabboni!” which is to say, “Teacher!”

• John 20:17

  Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”

• John 20:18

  Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to her.

• John 20:20

  When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad when they saw the Lord.

• John 21:7

  That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It’s the Lord!” So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he wrapped his coat around him (for he was naked), and threw himself into the sea.

• John 21:17

  He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.

• Acts 21:13

  Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

• Romans 5:5

  and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

• Romans 8:28

  We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

• Romans 12:9

  Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

• Romans 12:10

  In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;

• Romans 13:8

  Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

• Romans 13:9

  For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

• Romans 13:10

  Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

• 1 Corinthians 8:1

  Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

• 1 Corinthians 8:3

  But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

• 1 Corinthians 13:1

  If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

• 1 Corinthians 13:2

  If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

• 1 Corinthians 13:3

  If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

• 1 Corinthians 13:4

  Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

• 1 Corinthians 13:5

  doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

• 1 Corinthians 13:6

  doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

• 1 Corinthians 13:7

  bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

• 1 Corinthians 13:8

  Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

• 1 Corinthians 13:9

  For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;

• 1 Corinthians 13:10

  but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.

• 1 Corinthians 13:11

  When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

• 1 Corinthians 13:12

  For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

• 1 Corinthians 13:13

  But now faith, hope, and love remain — these three. The greatest of these is love.

• 1 Corinthians 14:1

  Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

• 1 Corinthians 16:14

  Let all that you do be done in love.

• 1 Corinthians 16:22

  If any man doesn’t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. Come, Lord!

• 2 Corinthians 5:6

  Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;

• 2 Corinthians 5:8

  We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

• 2 Corinthians 5:14

  For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

• 2 Corinthians 5:15

  He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

• 2 Corinthians 8:7

  But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.

• 2 Corinthians 8:8

  I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

• Galatians 5:6

  For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

• Galatians 5:13

  For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

• Galatians 5:14

  For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

• Galatians 5:22

  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

• Galatians 5:26

  Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

• Galatians 6:14

  But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

• Ephesians 3:17

  that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

• Ephesians 3:18

  may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth,

• Ephesians 3:19

  and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

• Ephesians 4:15

  but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;

• Ephesians 5:2

  Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

• Ephesians 6:24

  Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. Amen.

• Philippians 1:9

  This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;

• Philippians 1:20

  according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

• Philippians 1:21

  For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

• Philippians 1:23

  But I am in a dilemma between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

• Philippians 2:2

  make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

• Philippians 3:7

  However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ.

• Philippians 3:8

  Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

• Colossians 1:8

  who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.

• Colossians 2:2

  that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

• Colossians 3:12

  Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

• 1 Thessalonians 1:3

  remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

• 1 Thessalonians 3:12

  and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

• 1 Thessalonians 4:9

  But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

• 2 Thessalonians 3:5

  May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love, and into the perseverance of Christ.

• 1 Timothy 1:5

  but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith;

• 1 Timothy 1:14

  The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

• 1 Timothy 2:15

  but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.

• 1 Timothy 4:12

  Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

• 1 Timothy 6:2

  Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.

• 2 Timothy 1:7

  For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

• 2 Timothy 1:13

  Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

• 2 Timothy 2:22

  Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

• 2 Timothy 4:8

  From now on, there is stored up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

• Titus 3:15

  All who are with me greet you. Greet those who love us in faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.

• Philemon 1:5

  hearing of your love, and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints;

• Philemon 1:12

  I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,

• Philemon 1:13

  whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News.

• Philemon 1:14

  But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.

• Philemon 1:15

  For perhaps he was therefore separated from you for a while, that you would have him forever,

• Philemon 1:16

  no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

• Hebrews 6:10

  For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

• James 1:12

  Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

• James 2:5

  Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

• 1 Peter 1:8

  whom not having known you love; in whom, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory —

• 1 Peter 2:7

  For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient, “The stone which the builders rejected, has become the chief cornerstone,”

• 1 John 2:5

  But whoever keeps his word, God’s love has most certainly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:

• 1 John 2:15

  Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

• 1 John 3:17

  But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?

• 1 John 3:18

  My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

• 1 John 4:12

  No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

• 1 John 4:16

  We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

• 1 John 4:17

  In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.

• 1 John 4:18

  There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

• 1 John 4:19

  We love him, because he first loved us.

• 1 John 4:20

  If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

• 1 John 4:21

  This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

• 1 John 5:1

  Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.

• 1 John 5:2

  By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

• 1 John 5:3

  For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

• 2 John 1:6

  This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

• 2 John 1:21
• Revelation 2:4

  But I have this against you, that you left your first love.