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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 languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

1 Peter 4:8

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Colossians 3:14

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

Song of Solomon 8:6–7

Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 10:12

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

Matthew 22:37–39

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

Ephesians 5:25

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

1 John 4:8

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

1 John 4:7–8

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 16:14

Let all that you do be done in love.

Romans 12:9–10

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

John 13:34–35

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 13:4–7

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

1 John 4:7–12

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. — read the full passage →

1 John 3:18

My little children, let’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

Romans 13:10

Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment 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, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

John 10:11

I am the good shepherd.The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Ephesians 5:11

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. Cling to that which is good.

John 15:13

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

Proverbs 17:17

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

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.

Romans 13:8

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

John 15:12–13

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

John 14:6

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

John 15:12

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

Song of Solomon 2:7

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.

Ephesians 4:2

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

Romans 13:8–10

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

Ecclesiastes 3:14

I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.

Ephesians 5:25–33

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

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.

John 3:17

For God didn’t send his 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

I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

1 John 4:18–19

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. — read the full passage →

Matthew 22:37–40

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

Jeremiah 12:1–17

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who 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

“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand? — read the full passage →

1 John 4:7–21

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. — read the full passage →

Ephesians 4:2–3

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — read the full passage →

Proverbs 3:3–4

Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart. — read the full passage →

1 John 4:7

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

Song of Solomon 8:4

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires. Friends

1 Corinthians 13:4–8

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

Philippians 1:3

I thank my God whenever I remember you,

Matthew 5:43–48

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.’ — read the full passage →

Jeremiah 1:4–8

Now Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, — read the full passage →

Deuteronomy 6:5

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

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.

1 Corinthians 13:6

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

John 15:9–13

Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love. — read the full passage →

Luke 15:11–32

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 casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

1 John 3:16–18

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. — read the full passage →

Colossians 3:12–14

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 13:1–3

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. — read the full passage →

John 17:1–26

Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you; — read the full passage →

John 10:14–15

I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own; — read the full passage →

2 Kings 4:8–30

It fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread. — read the full passage →

Genesis 50:20

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.

1 John 3:16

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

1 John 3:1

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

1 Corinthians 13:13

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

Romans 8:37–39

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. — read the full passage →

Romans 7:14–25

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

Romans 5:8

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

Mark 12:31

The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no 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 with which he loved us, — read the full passage →

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.

1 Corinthians 13:1–7

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. — read the full passage →

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.

Song of Solomon 1:1–17

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

Psalms 17:7–10

Show your marvelous loving kindness, you who save those who take refuge by your right hand from their enemies. — read the full passage →

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,

Genesis 1:2

The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

1 Peter 1:22

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, 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, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

1 Corinthians 8:1

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

Romans 2:1

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

John 15:12–17

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

John 13:34

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.

Luke 6:31

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

Zephaniah 3:17

Yahweh, your God, is in your midst, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

Jeremiah 31:3

Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you.

Song of Solomon 2:4–7

He brought me to the banquet hall. His banner over me is love. — read the full passage →

Song of Solomon 2:4

He brought me to the banquet hall. His banner over me is love.

Psalms 86:15

But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

Ruth 1:16–17

Ruth said, “Don’t entreat me to leave you, and to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God; — read the full passage →

Genesis 2:24

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will 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 browses among the lilies.

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