True Love

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

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, — read the full passage →

If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.

For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.

I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for apart from me ye can do nothing.

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

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 →

Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one be born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

They said therefore unto him, What must we do, that we may work the works of God? — read the full passage →

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

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

Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

And Jacob loved Rachel; and he said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter. — read the full passage →

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes, or by the hinds of the field, That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, Until he please.

Praise ye Jehovah. Praise God in his sanctuary: Praise him in the firmament of his power. — read the full passage →

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

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

Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. — read the full passage →

These things have I written unto you, that ye may know that ye have eternal life, even unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God.

And God is able to make all grace abound unto you; that ye, having always all sufficiency in everything, may abound unto every good work:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →

We love, because he first loved us.

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

But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, gathered themselves together. — read the full passage →

My little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

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

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

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God. — read the full passage →

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

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might become rich.

Let all that ye do be done in love.

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

and hope putteth not to shame; because the love of God hath been shed abroad in our hearts through the Holy Spirit which was given unto us.

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.

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

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.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.

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.

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.

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: love therefore is the fulfilment of the law.

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

Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. — read the full passage →

And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.

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

Jehovah appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

Know therefore that Jehovah thy God, he is God, the faithful God, who keepeth covenant and lovingkindness with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

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.

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

Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

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

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

and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

but speaking truth in love, may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, even Christ;

with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; — read the full passage →

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

for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; — read the full passage →

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

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

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

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

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

For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office:

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

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

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.

And whither I go, ye know the way.

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

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 →

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

Jehovah thy God is in the midst of thee, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love; he will joy over thee with singing.

For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my lovingkindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed, saith Jehovah that hath mercy on thee.

Set me as a seal upon thy heart, As a seal upon thine arm: For love is strong as death; Jealousy is cruel as Sheol; The flashes thereof are flashes of fire, A very flame of Jehovah. — read the full passage →

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

But thou, O Lord, art a God merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;

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.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

who by the power of God are guarded through faith unto a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. — read the full passage →

Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works; — read the full passage →

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.

Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an ensample to them that believe, in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity.

and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you;

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

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

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.

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?

Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall be done away.

And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.

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

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