Our First Love

But I have this against you, that you left your first love.

But I have this against you, that you left your first love. — read the full passage →

“To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: “He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lamp stands says these things: — read the full passage →

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

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.

Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.

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:

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

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

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.

Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.

“To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: “He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lamp stands says these things: — 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.’

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

We love him, because he first loved us.

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 →

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

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

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 →

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

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

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

Let us rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let us give the glory to him. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.”

Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life.

“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.

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.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

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

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

“Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

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.

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

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

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.

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 →

“To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: “He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lamp stands says these things:

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

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.

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

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Let all that you do be done in love.

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

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

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.

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.

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,

“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.

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?

If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

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 →

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

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

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

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 →

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

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.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

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

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

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

“I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.

But I have this against you, that you tolerate yourwoman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

“To the angel of the assembly in Pergamum write: “He who has the sharp two-edged sword says these things:

But this you have, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

“To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: “He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lamp stands says these things: — read the full passage →

This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

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 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 →

Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man; — read the full passage →

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

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

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

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary? Who shall live on your holy hill? — read the full passage →

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.

“To the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write: “The Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like burnished brass, says these things:

So you also have some who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans likewise.

“I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

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,

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.