Tough Love

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

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

I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom: — read the full passage →

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

For each man will bear his own burden.

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — 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.

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 →

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. — read the full passage →

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.

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

Let all that you do be done in love.

“But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, — read the full passage →

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

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.

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 →

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

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

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

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.

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

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

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

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 →

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

We love him, because he first loved us.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good. — read the full passage →

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 →

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, — read the full passage →

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment; — read the full passage →

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — read the full passage →

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 →

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

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

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 →

What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

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.

Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you.

Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. — read the full passage →

After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag; — read the full passage →

Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

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.

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

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

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might. — read the full passage →

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

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 a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession, — read the full passage →

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

Many waters can’t quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned. Friends

Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.

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

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

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

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

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.”

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

and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

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.

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

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. — read the full passage →

Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

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.”

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

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 →

Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of Yahweh comes, for it is close at hand: — read the full passage →

Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.

and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him; — read the full passage →

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of 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 →

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

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.

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 →

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, — read the full passage →

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching. — 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 →

In that day, it will be said to Jerusalem, “Don’t be afraid, Zion. Don’t let your hands be weak.” — read the full passage →

Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits, and its breadth six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. — read the full passage →