Topic
Selfless Love
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Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; — read the full passage →
My little children, let’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
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.
It shall not be so among you, but whoever desires to become great among you shall beyour servant. — read the full passage →
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
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 God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for 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 →
For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” — read the full passage →
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →
“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’
Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, — read the full passage →
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, — read the full passage →
So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” — read the full passage →
Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who perish; — read the full passage →
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. — read the full passage →
“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.” — read the full passage →
So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming? — read the full passage →
Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
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 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.
He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.
doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. — read the full passage →
saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”
For everything spoken by God is possible.”
The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no other commandment greater than these.”
My heart is steadfast, God. I will sing and I will make music with my soul. — read the full passage →
Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
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.
Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
He must increase, but I must decrease.
Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.
In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Never let me be disappointed. — read the full passage →
God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again. — read the full passage →
If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →
each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.
Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ; To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and servants: — read the full passage →
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
So Pilate then took Jesus, and flogged him. — read the full passage →
Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you; — read the full passage →
“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. — read the full passage →
“Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. — read the full passage →
“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’
A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
“I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask; I am found by those who didn’t seek me: I said, See me, see me, to a nation that was not called by my name. — read the full passage →
These also are proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out. — read the full passage →
The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires. — read the full passage →
My heart overflows with a noble theme. I recite my verses for the king. My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer. — read the full passage →
I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.” — read the full passage →
The earth is Yahweh’s, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein. — read the full passage →
Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men. — read the full passage →
In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →
Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel. — read the full passage →
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, — read the full passage →
Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge; — read the full passage →
Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy; — read the full passage →
See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good, for one another, and for all.
Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,
Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear. — read the full passage →
Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.
In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;
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.
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →
An unfriendly man pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.
Save me, God, by your name. Vindicate me in your might. — read the full passage →
Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary? Who shall live on your holy hill? — read the full passage →
“‘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.
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.
Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”
Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. — read the full passage →
If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →
For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →
For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.
Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →
doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; — read the full passage →
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 I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh. — read the full passage →
Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.
But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.
I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”
He began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the wine press, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country. — read the full passage →
Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
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