Self Love

For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;

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

I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

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

The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no other commandment greater than these.”

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

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

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

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

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.

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

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

But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

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 →

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

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.

We love him, because he first loved us.

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

We love him, because he first loved us. — read the full passage →

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.

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

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

I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

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.

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

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.

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

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

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. — read the full passage →

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

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

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 sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

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

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. — read the full passage →

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

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

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

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

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

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

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

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

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

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.

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

Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and 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, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

Behold, I was born in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.

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.

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

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me. — read the full passage →

For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world works death.

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

Let all that you do be done in love.

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

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

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

Since you have been precious and honored in my sight, and I have loved you; therefore I will give people in your place, and nations instead of your life.

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me. — read the full passage →

knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers, — read the full passage →

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, 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. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

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 →

The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”

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 →

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

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;

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

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken 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 is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

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.

but to those who are self-seeking, and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation,

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 →

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

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.

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?

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.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

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

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love;

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

For, “His letters”, they say, “are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised.”

Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant. — read the full passage →

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

But let each man test his own work, and then he will take pride in himself and not in 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 with which he loved us, — read the full passage →

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man’s judgment. Yes, I don’t judge my own self. — read the full passage →

Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth, who has set your glory above the heavens! — read the full passage →