Loving Relationships

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

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

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

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — 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.

“‘You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

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

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

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

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

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

The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. — read the full passage →

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

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.

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

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

doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

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 →

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth, — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

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.

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, — read the full passage →

for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;

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, — read the full passage →

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

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

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

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

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 →

For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. — 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. — read the full passage →

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

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

If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. — read the full passage →

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding: — read the full passage →

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.” — 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 →

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

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

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time; — read the full passage →

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, — read the full passage →

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — read the full passage →

Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

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

and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.’ — read the full passage →

“There are three things which are too amazing for me, four which I don’t understand: — read the full passage →

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; — read the full passage →

Ruth said, “Don’t entreat me to leave you, and to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God; — read the full passage →

Yahweh said to Moses, — read the full passage →

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — read the full passage →

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

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, — read the full passage →

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.

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. — read the full passage →

However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.