Topic
A Time For Love
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For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: — read the full passage →
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
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 →
above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:
and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.
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 →
Hatred stirreth up strifes; But love covereth all transgressions.
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 →
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
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 →
Let all that ye do be done in love.
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. — read the full passage →
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 →
Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →
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 →
My little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.
Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: love therefore is the fulfilment of the law.
We love, because he first loved us.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, — read the full passage →
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd layeth down his life for the sheep.
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.
and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them;
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
A friend loveth at all times; And a brother is born for adversity.
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.
Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law.
This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you. — read the full passage →
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.
This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.
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.
with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →
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.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
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.
For God sent not the Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world should be saved through him.
For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: — read the full passage →
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.
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 →
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 →
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 →
For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling? — read the full passage →
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 →
with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; — read the full passage →
Let not kindness and truth forsake thee: Bind them about thy neck; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart: — read the full passage →
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, Until he please.
Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →
I thank my God upon all my remembrance of you,
Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy: — read the full passage →
Now the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, — read the full passage →
and thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
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.
rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth;
Even as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in my love. — read the full passage →
And he said, A certain man had two sons: — read the full passage →
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.
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 →
Put on therefore, as God’s elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering; — read the full passage →
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 →
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 →
I am the good shepherd; and I know mine own, and mine own know me, — read the full passage →
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 →
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.
Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
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.
But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. — read the full passage →
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. — read the full passage →
But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
The second is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time; — read the full passage →
but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, — read the full passage →
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.
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 →
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.
The Song of songs, which is Solomon’s. — read the full passage →
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 →
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,
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.
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:
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;
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
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.
This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you. — read the full passage →
A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
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.
Jehovah appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
He brought me to the banqueting-house, And his banner over me was love. — read the full passage →
He brought me to the banqueting-house, And his banner over me was love.
But thou, O Lord, art a God merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth.
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 →
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
My beloved is mine, and I am his: He feedeth his flock among the lilies.
Topical index adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Verse text: ASV.