Topic

A Time For Love

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Ecclesiastes 3:1–8

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: — read the full passage →

Ecclesiastes 3:8

a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

1 Corinthians 13:1–13

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

1 Peter 4:8

above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

Colossians 3:14

and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.

Song of Solomon 8:6–7

Set me as a seal upon thy heart, As a seal upon thine arm: For love is strong as death; Jealousy is cruel as Sheol; The flashes thereof are flashes of fire, A very flame of Jehovah. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 10:12

Hatred stirreth up strifes; But love covereth all transgressions.

Matthew 22:37–39

And he said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;

1 John 4:8

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

1 John 4:7–8

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 16:14

Let all that ye do be done in love.

Romans 12:9–10

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. — read the full passage →

John 13:34–35

A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 13:4–7

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

1 John 4:7–12

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God. — read the full passage →

1 John 3:18

My little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

Romans 13:10

Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: love therefore is the fulfilment of the law.

1 John 4:19

We love, because he first loved us.

Galatians 5:22–23

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, — read the full passage →

John 10:11

I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd layeth down his life for the sheep.

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Ephesians 5:11

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them;

Romans 12:9

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

John 15:13

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Proverbs 17:17

A friend loveth at all times; And a brother is born for adversity.

1 John 4:16

And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him.

Romans 13:8

Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law.

John 15:12–13

This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you. — read the full passage →

John 14:6

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.

John 15:12

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

Song of Solomon 2:7

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes, or by the hinds of the field, That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, Until he please.

Ephesians 4:2

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

Romans 13:8–10

Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →

Ecclesiastes 3:14

I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it; and God hath done it, that men should fear before him.

Ephesians 5:25–33

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

Romans 8:28

And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.

John 3:17

For God sent not the Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world should be saved through him.

Ecclesiastes 3:1–22

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: — read the full passage →

Ecclesiastes 1:13

And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven: it is a sore travail that God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

1 John 4:18–19

There is no fear in love: but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath punishment; and he that feareth is not made perfect in love. — read the full passage →

Matthew 22:37–40

And he said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. — read the full passage →

Jeremiah 12:1–17

Righteous art thou, O Jehovah, when I contend with thee; yet would I reason the cause with thee: wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very treacherously? — read the full passage →

Ecclesiastes 3:1

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

Job 7:1–21

Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling? — read the full passage →

1 John 4:7–21

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God. — read the full passage →

Ephesians 4:2–3

with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; — read the full passage →

Proverbs 3:3–4

Let not kindness and truth forsake thee: Bind them about thy neck; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart: — read the full passage →

1 John 4:7

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.

Song of Solomon 8:4

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, Until he please.

1 Corinthians 13:4–8

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

Philippians 1:3

I thank my God upon all my remembrance of you,

Matthew 5:43–48

Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy: — read the full passage →

Jeremiah 1:4–8

Now the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, — read the full passage →

Deuteronomy 6:5

and thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

Leviticus 19:18

Thou shalt not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people; but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am Jehovah.

1 Corinthians 13:6

rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth;

John 15:9–13

Even as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in my love. — read the full passage →

Luke 15:11–32

And he said, A certain man had two sons: — read the full passage →

1 John 4:18

There is no fear in love: but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath punishment; and he that feareth is not made perfect in love.

1 John 3:16–18

Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. — read the full passage →

Colossians 3:12–14

Put on therefore, as God’s elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering; — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 13:1–3

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

John 17:1–26

These things spake Jesus; and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that the Son may glorify thee: — read the full passage →

John 10:14–15

I am the good shepherd; and I know mine own, and mine own know me, — read the full passage →

2 Kings 4:8–30

And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread. — read the full passage →

Genesis 50:20

And as for you, ye meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

1 John 3:16

Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

1 John 3:1

Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

1 Corinthians 13:13

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

Romans 8:37–39

Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. — read the full passage →

Romans 7:14–25

For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. — read the full passage →

Romans 5:8

But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Mark 12:31

The second is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

1 Peter 5:6–7

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time; — read the full passage →

Ephesians 2:4–5

but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, — read the full passage →

Galatians 5:13

For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.

1 Corinthians 13:1–7

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

Romans 5:5

and hope putteth not to shame; because the love of God hath been shed abroad in our hearts through the Holy Spirit which was given unto us.

Song of Solomon 1:1–17

The Song of songs, which is Solomon’s. — read the full passage →

Psalms 17:7–10

Show thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them that take refuge in thee From those that rise upagainst them. — read the full passage →

Deuteronomy 7:9

Know therefore that Jehovah thy God, he is God, the faithful God, who keepeth covenant and lovingkindness with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

Genesis 1:2

And the earth was waste and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

1 Peter 1:22

Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently:

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;

Galatians 5:22

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

1 Corinthians 8:1

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

Romans 2:1

Wherefore thou art without excuse, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest dost practise the same things.

John 15:12–17

This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you. — read the full passage →

John 13:34

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

Luke 6:31

And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.

Zephaniah 3:17

Jehovah thy God is in the midst of thee, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love; he will joy over thee with singing.

Jeremiah 31:3

Jehovah appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

Song of Solomon 2:4–7

He brought me to the banqueting-house, And his banner over me was love. — read the full passage →

Song of Solomon 2:4

He brought me to the banqueting-house, And his banner over me was love.

Psalms 86:15

But thou, O Lord, art a God merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth.

Ruth 1:16–17

And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave thee, and to return from following after thee, for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God; — read the full passage →

Genesis 2:24

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Genesis 1:1

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Song of Solomon 2:16

My beloved is mine, and I am his: He feedeth his flock among the lilies.

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