Loving Unconditionally

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — 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.

But I say unto you that hear, Love your enemies, do good to them that hate 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.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

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

because if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.

Wherefore thou art without excuse, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest dost practise the same things.

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children;

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

Let all that ye do be done in love.

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

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are of the Dispersion, greeting. — read the full passage →

But whoso hath the world’s goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him?

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

but I say unto you, Love your enemies, and pray for them that persecute you;

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

Jehovah appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

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.

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

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

There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus.

Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned:—

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.

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

I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation; I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great assembly. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves: — read the full passage →

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, — read the full passage →

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: — read the full passage →

We love, because he first loved us.

but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, — read the full passage →

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. — read the full passage →

O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, calledto bean apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, — read the full passage →

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Again therefore Jesus spake unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the light of life.

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

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.

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

But when the kindness of God our Saviour, and his love toward man, appeared, — read the full passage →

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

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.

Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →

Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves:

Even as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in my love.

He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself unto him.

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 second is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

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 →

My little children, these things write I unto you that ye may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: — read the full passage →

For hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye should follow his steps:

doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;

Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men,

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and the powers that be are ordained of God.

Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. — 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.

Now it came to pass on a sabbath, that he was going through the grainfields; and his disciples plucked the ears, and did eat, rubbing them in their hands.

And a second like unto it is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not arisen a greater than John the Baptist: yet he that is but little in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy: — read the full passage →

Jehovah thy God is in the midst of thee, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love; he will joy over thee with singing.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and Jehovah hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, these may forget, yet will not I forget thee. — read the full passage →

Hatred stirreth up strifes; But love covereth all transgressions.

But as for me, I am like a green olive-tree in the house of God: I trust in the lovingkindness of God for ever and ever.

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. — read the full passage →

Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well:

desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor whereof they confidently affirm.

and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.

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,

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,

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

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

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.

because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved:

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 →

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.

I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that thou didst send me, and lovedst them, even as thou lovedst me.

A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

All things therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also unto them: for this is the law and the prophets.

A friend loveth at all times; And a brother is born for adversity.

But thou, O Lord, art a God merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth.

And Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. — read the full passage →

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,

and from Jesus Christ, who isthe faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loveth us, and loosed us from our sins by his blood;

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;

Hereby we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments.

No man hath beheld God at any time: if we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us: