Self Love

for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;

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

I will give thanks unto thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Wonderful are thy works; And that my soul knoweth right well.

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — 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. — read the full passage →

The second is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;

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

For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline.

Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain; Buta woman that feareth Jehovah, she shall be praised.

And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him.

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

Keep thy heart with all diligence; For out of it are the issues of life.

But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not: ye are of more value than many sparrows.

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 →

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

We love, because he first loved us.

and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.

We love, because he first loved us. — 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.

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

above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

I can of myself do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is righteous; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

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.

For thou didst form my inward parts: Thou didst cover me in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

fear thou not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God; I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

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.

But the Spirit saith expressly, that in later times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. — read the full passage →

Hatred stirreth up strifes; But love covereth all transgressions.

For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain of them that commend themselves: but they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another;

And 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 heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. — read the full passage →

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

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

And a second like unto it is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.

For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, railers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

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

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but so to think as to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to each man a measure of faith.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Put on therefore, as God’s elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering;

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

for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.

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.

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

Let us not become vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me.

Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

And he hath said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. — read the full passage →

For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, a repentance which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.

Let all that ye do be done in love.

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law.

Since thou hast been precious in my sight, and honorable, and I have loved thee; therefore will I give men in thy stead, and peoples instead of thy life.

O Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and knownme. — read the full passage →

knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers; — read the full passage →

Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief:

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not found vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

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 →

On these two commandments the whole law hangeth, and the prophets.

Let not kindness and truth forsake thee: Bind them about thy neck; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart: — read the full passage →

Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

looking carefully lestthere beany man that falleth short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby the many be defiled;

Let us therefore draw near with boldness unto the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace to help us in time of need.

Brethren, I count not myself yet to have laid hold: but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, — read the full passage →

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

And 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 have not love, I am nothing.

but unto them that are factious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, shall be wrath and indignation,

A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. — read the full passage →

A friend loveth at all times; And a brother is born for adversity.

Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; For in thee do I trust: Cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; For I lift up my soul unto thee.

If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, cannot love God whom he hath not seen.

No man hath beheld God at any time: if we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us:

But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well:

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

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:

For if a man thinketh himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

For, His letters, they say, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.

Now concerning spiritualgifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. — read the full passage →

A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

But love your enemies, and do them good, and lend, never despairing; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be sons of the Most High: for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

For we are all become as one that is unclean, and all our righteousnesses are as a polluted garment: and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

But let each man prove his own work, and then shall he have his glorying in regard of himself alone, and not of his neighbor.

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? — read the full passage →

but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, — read the full passage →

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man’s judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self. — read the full passage →

O Jehovah, our Lord, How excellent is thy name in all the earth, Who hast set thy glory upon the heavens! — read the full passage →