Topic

A Time For Love

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Ecclesiastes 3:1–8

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: — read the full passage →

Ecclesiastes 3:8

A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

1 Corinthians 13:1–13

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. — read the full passage →

1 Peter 4:8

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

Colossians 3:14

And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

Song of Solomon 8:6–7

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 10:12

Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

Matthew 22:37–39

Jesus 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 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 born of God, and knoweth God. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 16:14

Let all your things be done with charity.

Romans 12:9–10

Let love be without dissimulation. 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; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 13:4–7

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity 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 born of God, and knoweth God. — read the full passage →

1 John 3:18

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

Romans 13:10

Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

1 John 4:19

We love him, because he first loved us.

Galatians 5:22–23

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

John 10:11

I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.

John 3:16

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

Ephesians 5:11

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

Romans 12:9

Let love be without dissimulation. 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 have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

Romans 13:8

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

John 15:12–13

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

John 14:6

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

John 15:12

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

Song of Solomon 2:7

I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.

Ephesians 4:2

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

Romans 13:8–10

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another 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 any thing taken from it: and God doeth 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 for it; — read the full passage →

Romans 8:28

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

John 3:17

For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

Ecclesiastes 3:1–22

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: — read the full passage →

Ecclesiastes 1:13

And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.

1 John 4:18–19

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

Matthew 22:37–40

Jesus 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 Lord, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously? — read the full passage →

Ecclesiastes 3:1

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

Job 7:1–21

Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an 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 born 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 mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine 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 born of God, and knoweth God.

Song of Solomon 8:4

I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.

1 Corinthians 13:4–8

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

Philippians 1:3

I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,

Matthew 5:43–48

Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. — read the full passage →

Jeremiah 1:4–8

Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, — read the full passage →

Deuteronomy 6:5

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

Leviticus 19:18

Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord.

1 Corinthians 13:6

Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

John 15:9–13

As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue 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 torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

1 John 3:16–18

Hereby perceive we the love of God, 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 the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 13:1–3

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. — read the full passage →

John 17:1–26

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

John 10:14–15

I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. — 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

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

1 John 3:16

Hereby perceive we the love of God, 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 the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

1 Corinthians 13:13

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

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 love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Mark 12:31

And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour 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, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, — read the full passage →

Galatians 5:13

For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

1 Corinthians 13:1–7

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. — read the full passage →

Romans 5:5

And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is 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

Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them. — read the full passage →

Deuteronomy 7:9

Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;

Genesis 1:2

And the earth was without form 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 obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure 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 do toward you:

Galatians 5:22

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

1 Corinthians 8:1

Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.

Romans 2:1

Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.

John 15:12–17

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

John 13:34

A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; 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

The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he 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

The Lord hath 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 full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.

Ruth 1:16–17

And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or 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 heaven and the earth.

Song of Solomon 2:16

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

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