Finding Love

Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

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

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.

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

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: — read the full passage →

And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. — read the full passage →

Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man; — read the full passage →

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 →

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Let all your things be done with charity.

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

Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

We love him, because he first loved us.

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.

But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, — read the full passage →

He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

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

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.

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

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

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 →

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

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.

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.

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

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 →

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.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. — read the full passage →

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

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

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

If ye love me, keep my commandments.

But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.

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

Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: — read the full passage →

If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

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

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

Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

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.

Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

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

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

And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

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.

My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction: — read the full passage →

I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? — read the full passage →

And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

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

For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

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

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

Let no man seek his own, but every man another’s wealth.

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. — read the full passage →

And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there: — read the full passage →

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. — read the full passage →

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

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.

And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. — read the full passage →

But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, — read the full passage →

Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

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

For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: — read the full passage →

Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;

Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. — read the full passage →

Let brotherly love continue. — read the full passage →

Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; — read the full passage →

Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.

That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.

For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →