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Romance

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Proverbs 5:18–19

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

Genesis 2:18

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

Song of Solomon 7:6

How beautiful and how pleasant you are, love, for delights!

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 →

1 Peter 3:7

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

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.

Proverbs 31:10

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

Song of Solomon 6:3

I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine. He browses among the lilies,

1 Peter 4:8

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

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

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

1 Corinthians 16:14

Let all that you do be done in love.

Song of Solomon 2:2

As a lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. Beloved

Genesis 29:20

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

Romans 12:21

Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Exodus 20:14

“You shall not commit adultery.

Proverbs 12:4

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

John 3:27

John answered, “A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven.

Colossians 3:14

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

Ephesians 4:2

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

1 Corinthians 13:4–6

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

Romans 12:10

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

Matthew 19:3–9

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?” — read the full passage →

Song of Solomon 4:10

How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine! The fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds of spices!

Proverbs 10:12

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

Matthew 19:6

So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”

Song of Solomon 2:16

My beloved is mine, and I am his. He browses among the lilies.

1 John 4:19

We love him, because he first loved us.

John 15:13

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

Proverbs 17:17

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

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 →

Proverbs 30:18–19

“There are three things which are too amazing for me, four which I don’t understand: — read the full passage →

Proverbs 19:14

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

Colossians 3:18–19

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:33

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

Psalms 143:8

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

Romans 12:9

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

1 Corinthians 13:13

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

Psalms 31:16

Make your face to shine on your servant. Save me in your loving kindness.

1 John 4:8

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

1 Peter 5:6–7

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time; — read the full passage →

Philippians 4:1–23

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord, my beloved. — read the full passage →

Romans 13:8

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

Romans 5:8

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

John 15:16

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

John 15:12

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

John 14:23

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

John 14:21

One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”

John 14:15

If you love me, keep my commandments.

John 13:34–35

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 →

Luke 6:31

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

Matthew 18:18–35

Most certainly I tell you, whatever things you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever things you release on earth will have been released in heaven. — read the full passage →

Song of Solomon 1:2

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love is better than wine.

Proverbs 17:9

He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

Proverbs 3:3–4

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 →

Genesis 24:1–67

Abraham was old, and well stricken in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things. — read the full passage →

Genesis 2:18–25

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.” — read the full passage →

1 John 4:7

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

1 John 3:1

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.

James 1:13

Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.

Ephesians 6:6

not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

1 Corinthians 2:9

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.”

Proverbs 20:13

Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

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.

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:

1 Thessalonians 5:21

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

Ephesians 5:25–26

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

Ephesians 2:4–5

But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, — read the full passage →

Galatians 5:13

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

Galatians 2:20

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.

Romans 8:37–39

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. — read the full passage →

Romans 8:25–32

But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience. — read the full passage →

Zephaniah 3:17

Yahweh, your God, is in your midst, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

Amos 6:1

Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who are secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!

Isaiah 62:5

For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons shall marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

Isaiah 54:5

For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.

Isaiah 48:22–51:7

“There is no peace”, says Yahweh, “for the wicked.” — read the full passage →

Proverbs 18:22–19:14

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh. — read the full passage →

Psalms 79:12

Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

Psalms 18:1

I love you, Yahweh, my strength.

Deuteronomy 7:9

Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

Leviticus 19:18

“‘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.

1 John 3:22–5:14

and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight. — read the full passage →

1 John 3:18

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

1 John 3:16

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

Galatians 5:22–23

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

1 Corinthians 10:24

Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.

Romans 8:35

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

John 15:9–17

Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love. — read the full passage →

Mark 12:29–31

Jesus answered, “The greatest is, ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one: — read the full passage →

Matthew 22:36–40

“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?” — read the full passage →

Song of Solomon 1:1–8:14

The Song of songs, which is Solomon’s. Beloved — read the full passage →

2 Thessalonians 3:5

May the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ.

Ephesians 4:32

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

Ephesians 3:17–19

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love, — read the full passage →

2 Corinthians 5:14

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

Matthew 18:15

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

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.

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.

Matthew 5:43–48

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.’ — read the full passage →

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