True Love

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity 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 powers, nor things present, nor things to come, — read the full passage →

If ye love me, keep my commandments.

For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

But God commendeth his 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; 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 a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might 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 the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

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

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

I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.

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

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

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

Hereby perceive we the love of God, 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 believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to 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 him, because he first loved us.

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

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

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

A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; 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 born of God, and knoweth God. — read the full passage →

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the 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 be rich.

Let all your things be done with charity.

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is 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 have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

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

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

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

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour 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 all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

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

The Lord hath 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 the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy 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 torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

Hereby perceive we the love of God, 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 charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which 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 are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: — read the full passage →

But God, who is 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, gentleness, goodness, faith,

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

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

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

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

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

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

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

And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.

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 in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he 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 shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee.

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. — read the full passage →

Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: — read the full passage →

But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy 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 unto him, to shew unto his servants 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, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

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

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

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

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

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

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen. Written from Rome to Philemon, by Onesimus a servant.

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, 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 do toward you:

Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;

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

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

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

Let no man seek his own, but every man another’s wealth.

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