Finding True Love

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

We love him, because he first loved us.

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

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

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

If ye love me, keep my commandments.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, — read the full passage →

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 →

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

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.

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.

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

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

Let all your things be done with charity.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;

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

But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

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

Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

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

Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

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.

For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee.

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.

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

Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.

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.

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

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

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

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

And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

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.

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 →

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 ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

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 second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

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

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 →

Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied. — read the full passage →

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

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

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 →

For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

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;

Let brotherly love continue. — read the full passage →

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

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. — read the full passage →

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

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

For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.

We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;

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 →

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

That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; — read the full passage →

How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,