Topic

Obsessive Love

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Song of Solomon 8:6–7

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 →

1 Corinthians 13:4–7

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

1 John 4:18

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.

Genesis 29:18–20

Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.” — read the full passage →

Colossians 3:5

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

2 Samuel 13:1–2

After this, Absalom the son of David had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 4:23

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

Matthew 22:37–39

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 →

1 Corinthians 13:4–5

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

Hosea 2:19–20

I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion. — read the full passage →

Genesis 29:20

Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

1 Samuel 18:1–3

When he had made an end of speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 27:4

Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

Proverbs 6:25

Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

2 Samuel 13:1–15

After this, Absalom the son of David had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her. — read the full passage →

Colossians 3:19

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

Proverbs 6:34–35

For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband. He won’t spare in the day of vengeance. — read the full passage →

Genesis 34:1–3

Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:25

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

Luke 14:26

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregardhis own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

1 Corinthians 13:4–8

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

Ephesians 5:25–27

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

Hosea 2:19

I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.

Song of Solomon 3:1–4

By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him. — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:25–28

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

Hosea 3:1

Yahweh said to me, “Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.”

Song of Solomon 2:7

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.

Proverbs 5:18–20

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — read the full passage →

1 John 2:15–17

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 →

1 Peter 4:8

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

Philippians 4:5

Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.

Galatians 5:22–23

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

Proverbs 6:24–25

to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue. — read the full passage →

Colossians 3:14

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

1 John 2:16

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

Ephesians 5:25–33

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:3

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

Matthew 6:24

“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.

Proverbs 5:18–19

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — read the full passage →

2 Samuel 13:1–20

After this, Absalom the son of David had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her. — read the full passage →

Exodus 20:1–5

God spoke all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

James 3:14–16

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth. — read the full passage →

Ephesians 4:2

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

Luke 12:15

He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

Hosea 2:6–7

Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can’t find her way. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 5:15–20

Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well. — read the full passage →

1 Samuel 18:8–9

Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him; and he said, “They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands. What can he have more but the kingdom?” — read the full passage →

1 Samuel 18:1–4

When he had made an end of speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. — read the full passage →

Genesis 2:24

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

1 Corinthians 13:1–13

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 →

Song of Solomon 8:6

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.

Exodus 20:17

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

Song of Solomon 2:5

Strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples; For I am faint with love.

Proverbs 6:34

For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband. He won’t spare in the day of vengeance.

1 John 4:18–19

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 →

1 Peter 1:22

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:

James 4:1–2

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members? — read the full passage →

James 1:14–15

But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. — read the full passage →

Philippians 4:6–7

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — read the full passage →

Philippians 2:3–4

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; — read the full passage →

Philippians 2:2–4

make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind; — read the full passage →

Philippians 2:2

make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

Philippians 1:9–10

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment; — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:25–29

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

Ephesians 4:31–32

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice. — read the full passage →

Ephesians 4:2–3

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

Romans 12:9

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

Romans 12:2

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.

John 14:15

If you love me, keep my commandments.

Mark 12:30

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.

Matthew 22:37–38

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 →

Matthew 22:37

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

Matthew 10:37

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.

Hosea 2:7

She will follow after her lovers, but she won’t overtake them; and she will seek them, but won’t find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.’

Song of Solomon 2:4–5

He brought me to the banquet hall. His banner over me is love. — read the full passage →

Ecclesiastes 3:8

a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

Proverbs 7:22–23

He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 6:24–26

to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 6:24–35

to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 5:19

A loving doe and a graceful deer— let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.

Proverbs 5:18–22

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — read the full passage →

Psalms 73:25–26

Whom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you. — read the full passage →

2 Samuel 13:14–15

However he would not listen to her voice; but being stronger than she, he forced her, and lay with her. — read the full passage →

1 Samuel 18:10–11

On the next day, an evil spirit from God came mightily on Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house. David played with his hand, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear in his hand; — read the full passage →

1 Samuel 18:1

When he had made an end of speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

Exodus 34:14

for you shall worship no other god: for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

Genesis 34:2–3

Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her. — read the full passage →

Genesis 2:23–24

The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.” — read the full passage →

John 3:16

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.

John 3:16–17

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 →

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