First Love

But I have this against you, that you left your first love. — read the full passage →

But I have this against you, that you left your first love.

We love him, because he first loved us.

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.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

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.

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

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

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 →

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.

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

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

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

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

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.

If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

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

Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

“To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: “He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lamp stands says these things: — read the full passage →

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

Let us rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let us give the glory to him. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.”

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

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

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

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

In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

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

You were bought with a price. Don’t become bondservants of men.

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

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

Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia; — read the full passage →

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

“‘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.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Let all that you do be done in love.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

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 don’t have love, I am nothing.

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.

For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

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

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

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 →

you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’This is the first commandment.

“To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: “He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lamp stands says these things: — read the full passage →

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

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

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

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

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

Therefore he who resists the authority, withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little.”

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

“Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

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.

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.

“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false. — read the full passage →

These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

Mercy to you and peace and love be multiplied.

Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,

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:

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man; — read the full passage →

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

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,

Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life.

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. — read the full passage →

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 →

But I have this against you, that you tolerate yourwoman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared,

through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

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

among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might. — read the full passage →

But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any “good news” other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed. — read the full passage →