Topic
Finding True Love
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Delight thyself also in Jehovah; And he will give thee the desires of thy heart.
We love, because he first loved us.
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.
But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.
above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:
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.
My little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.
and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.
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.
Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →
And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, — 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 →
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the 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 punishment; and he that feareth is not made perfect in love.
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.
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, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, — read the full passage →
Let all that ye do be done in love.
Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: love therefore is the fulfilment of the law.
Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law.
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.
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; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.
Let not kindness and truth forsake thee: Bind them about thy neck; Write them upon the tablet of thy 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 up for it;
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.
But God commendeth his own 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, cannot love God whom he hath not seen.
No man hath beheld God at any time: if we love one another, God abideth 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 children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
who by the power of God are guarded through faith unto a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. — read the full passage →
remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
but speaking truth in love, may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, even Christ;
with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
among whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:—
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, — read the full passage →
Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall be done away.
Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →
Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Let no man seek his own, but each his neighbor’s good.
In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another;
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, 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, even as I have loved you.
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one be born anew, 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 neighbor as thyself.
The second is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my lovingkindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed, saith Jehovah that hath mercy on thee.
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.
Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in 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 know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators 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 also do toward you;
that no man be moved by these afflictions; for yourselves know that hereunto we are appointed.
Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.
but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — 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 →
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
Be ye imitators 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 beareth much fruit: for apart from me ye can do nothing.
Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh it away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he cleanseth it, that it may bear more fruit.
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. — read the full passage →
And a second like unto it is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor 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, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
And to 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 thou art dead. — read the full passage →
But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →
Mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied. — read the full passage →
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought 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.
Herein was the love of God manifested in us, that God hath 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 begotten of God, and knoweth God. — read the full passage →
For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries:
For, He that would 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 →
Whoseadorninglet it not be the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on apparel;
Let love of the brethren 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 ensample to them that believe, in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity. — read the full passage →
desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor whereof they confidently affirm.
And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ.
For this cause I also, when I could no longer forbear, sent that I might know your faith, lest by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor should be in vain.
We give thanks to God always for you all, making mentionof youin our prayers;
For I would have you know how greatly I strive 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 do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.
that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that ye may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man; — read the full passage →
how that by revelation was made known unto me the mystery, as I wrote before in few words,
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