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Love In The New Testament
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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 →
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 →
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, — read the full passage →
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.
In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one 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. — read the full passage →
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.
Judge not, that ye be not judged. — read the full passage →
For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not covet, and if there be any other commandment, it is summed up in this word, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. — read the full passage →
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.
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.
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy: — read the full passage →
There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye all are one man in Christ Jesus.
And one of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together, and knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, What commandment is the first of all? — read the full passage →
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Judge not, that ye be not judged. — read the full passage →
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.
above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:
Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →
But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, gathered themselves together. — read the full passage →
We love, because he first loved us. — read the full passage →
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.
being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
Put on therefore, as God’s elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering; — read the full passage →
But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
And behold, a certain lawyer stood up and made trial of him, saying, Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? — read the full passage →
For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart.
with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
Let all that ye do be done in love.
Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: love therefore is the fulfilment of the law.
This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.
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 →
No man hath beheld God at any time: if we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us:
If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassions, — read the full passage →
and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.
Paul, calledto bean apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, — read the full passage →
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.
But love your enemies, and do them good, and lend, never despairing; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be sons of the Most High: for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.
The second is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
A friend loveth at all times; And a brother is born for adversity.
Hatred stirreth up strifes; But love covereth all transgressions.
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.
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.
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death.
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.
Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law.
And this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love his brother also.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ.
But concerning love of the brethren ye have no need that one write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another;
make full my joy, that ye be of the same mind, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;
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.
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.
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.
Let not kindness and truth forsake thee: Bind them about thy neck; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart: — read the full passage →
Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently:
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;
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.
For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus in behalf of you Gentiles,— — read the full passage →
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
but as it is written, Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not, Andwhichentered not into the heart of man, Whatsoever things God prepared for them that love him.
and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength.
Jehovah appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn 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.
Know therefore that Jehovah thy God, he is God, the faithful God, who keepeth covenant and lovingkindness with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died; — read the full passage →
doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;
Even as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in my love. — read the full passage →
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
And a second like unto it is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
but I say unto you, Love your enemies, and pray for them that persecute you;
Many waters cannot quench love, Neither can floods drown it: If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, He would utterly be contemned.
Hereby we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments.
My little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;
but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, — read the full passage →
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.
So then let us follow after things which make for peace, and things whereby we may edify one another.
And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
But I say unto you that hear, Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you,
And he said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
But thou, O Lord, art a God merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth.
Thou shalt not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people; but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am Jehovah.
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; — read the full passage →
Salute one another with a kiss of love. Peace be unto you all that are in Christ.
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;
if ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious:
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