Topic
Obsessive Love
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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. — read the full passage →
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.
And Jacob loved Rachel; and he said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter. — read the full passage →
Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her. — read the full passage →
Keep thy heart with all diligence; For out of it are the issues of life.
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. — read the full passage →
Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →
And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in justice, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. — read the full passage →
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. — read the full passage →
Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; But who is able to stand before jealousy?
Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her. — read the full passage →
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
For jealousy is the rage of a man; And he will not spare in the day of vengeance. — read the full passage →
And Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. — read the full passage →
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;
If any man cometh unto me, and hateth not his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in justice, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. — read the full passage →
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
And Jehovah said unto me, Go again, love a woman beloved of her friend, and an adulteress, even as Jehovah loveth the children of Israel, though they turn unto other gods, and love cakes of raisins.
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes, or by the hinds of the field, That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, Until he please.
Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. — read the full passage →
above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:
Let your forbearance be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, — read the full passage →
To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner’s tongue. — read the full passage →
and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vainglory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;
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.
Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →
And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her. — read the full passage →
And God spake all these words, saying, — read the full passage →
But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth. — read the full passage →
with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
And he said unto them, Take heed, and keep yourselves from all covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she shall not find her paths. — read the full passage →
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well. — read the full passage →
And Saul was very wroth, and this saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom? — read the full passage →
And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. — read the full passage →
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
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 →
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.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor’s.
Stay ye me with raisins, refresh me with apples; For I am sick from love.
For jealousy is the rage of a man; And he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
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. — 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:
Whence comewars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members? — read the full passage →
but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. — read the full passage →
In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. — read the full passage →
doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself; — read the full passage →
make full my joy, that ye be of the same mind, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind; — read the full passage →
make full my joy, that ye be of the same mind, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;
And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment; — read the full passage →
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice: — read the full passage →
with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; — read the full passage →
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.
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.
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. — read the full passage →
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.
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.
And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.
He brought me to the banqueting-house, And his banner over me was love. — read the full passage →
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
He goeth after her straightway, As an ox goeth to the slaughter, Or asone infetters to the correction of the fool; — read the full passage →
To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner’s tongue. — read the full passage →
To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner’s tongue. — read the full passage →
Asa loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love.
Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →
Whom have I in heavenbut thee? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee. — read the full passage →
Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice; but being stronger than she, he forced her, and lay with her. — read the full passage →
And it came to pass on the morrow, that an evil spirit from God came mightily upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David played with his hand, as he did day by day. And Saul had his spear in his hand; — read the full passage →
And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
(for thou shalt worship no other god: for Jehovah, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God);
And Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her; and he took her, and lay with her, and humbled her. — read the full passage →
And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. — 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.
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 →
Topical index adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Verse text: ASV.