Loving Yourself

You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you.

He who gets wisdom loves his own soul. He who keeps understanding shall find good.

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

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

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.

Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”

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

“‘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.

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

“But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness. — read the full passage →

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

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

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 →

We love him, because he first loved us.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for I see not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

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

Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

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

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things. — read the full passage →

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →

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 →

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

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

‘Honor your father and mother.’And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”

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

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

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.

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

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.

My little children, let’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

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

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

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

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

Let all that you do be done in love.

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

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

But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, — 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.

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 →

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

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

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

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.”

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

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

How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.

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

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you.

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

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

I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

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

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — 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. — read the full passage →

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

But now thus says Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine. — read the full passage →

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

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

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.

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.

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 →

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

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

Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

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.

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

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

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

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

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

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. — read the full passage →

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?

The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →

If you love me, keep my commandments.

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 →

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 →

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

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. — read the full passage →

For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh; — read the full passage →

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

But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, gathered themselves together. — read the full passage →

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments. — read the full passage →