Loving God More Than The World

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. — read the full passage →

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?

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

Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, — read the full passage →

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. — read the full passage →

The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. — read the full passage →

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

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.

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous. — read the full passage →

One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”

He said with a loud voice, “Fear the Lord, and give him glory; for the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and the springs of waters!”

For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

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.

Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them, — read the full passage →

He said, “A certain man had two sons. — read the full passage →

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

I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

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 answered, “The greatest is, ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one: — read the full passage →

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

We love him, because he first loved us.

It shall happen that, before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but those who are wise shall understand.

I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my ordinances, and do them.

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you. — read the full passage →

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

Seek Yahweh while he may be found; call you on him while he is near: — read the full passage →

Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture. — read the full passage →

Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first, — read the full passage →

They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law.

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.

He shall make a firm covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease; and on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that determined, shall wrath be poured out on the desolate.

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

He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.

As they went on their way, he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house. — read the full passage →

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

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

But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.

and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. — read the full passage →

For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.

For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers and your children shall find compassion before those who led them captive, and shall come again into this land: for Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.”

The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!” — read the full passage →

For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

It fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread. — read the full passage →

for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.

For thus says Yahweh to the house of Israel: “Seek me, and you will live;

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

He said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you fishers for men.”

Oh love Yahweh, all you his saints! Yahweh preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.

who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.