Unconditional Love

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.

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 →

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

“But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

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

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

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.

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 →

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

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

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

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

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

But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared, — read the full passage →

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

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

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.

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.

We love him, because he first loved us.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

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

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

One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”

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 →

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

Let all that you do be done in love.

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.

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you! — read the full passage →

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 →

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

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

But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house. I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever.

Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith;

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

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.

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

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 →

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 →

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.

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.

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

If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

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

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 →

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? — read the full passage →

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.

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

I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me.

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.

But whoever keeps his word, God’s love has most certainly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are 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.

Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

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

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. — read the full passage →

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, — read the full passage →

But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

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

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.

Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies. — read the full passage →

to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely bestowed favor on us in the Beloved,

among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love, — read the full passage →

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

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.

desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

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

Yahweh didn’t set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples: — 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. — read the full passage →

Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

May the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ.

“I command these things to you, that you may love one another.

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

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

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 →

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

and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen.

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

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

One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was at the table, leaning against Jesus’ breast.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;

How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine! The fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds of spices!

“‘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.