67 Bible Verses about Love, Abuse Of

Nothing by hired labor, or vainglory; but in lowliness the leaders hold each other above themselves. Look ye each not on the things of themselves, but also each the things of others.

For whoever should wish to save his life shall lose it: and whoever shall lose his soul for my sake shall find it.

For whoever wills to save his life shall lose it; and whoever should lose his life for my sake and the good news, the same shall save it.

For whoever would wish to save his soul shall lose it: and whoever should lose his soul for my sake, the same shall save it.

And if by food thy brother is grieved, thou no more walkest by love. Not by thy food destroy him, for whom Christ died.

And we the able ought to bear the weaknesses of the unable and not please ourselves.

And see ye lest this your power be a stumble to the weak.

Let none seek his own, but each another's.

Let us not be vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another.

And if ye have bitter envy and intrigue in your heart, boast not, and lie not against the truth. This is wisdom coming not down from above, but earthly, natural, resembling an evil spirit.

Wo to those touching house upon house, they will bring near field upon field, till no more place, and ye dwelt yourselves alone in the midst of the earth.

The king answered and said, Is not this great Babel, that I built it for the house of the kingdom by the strength of my power, and for the honor of my majesty?

For men shall be self-lovers, lovers of money, boastful, proud, slandering, disobedient to parents, unthankful, wicked,

Ye have led a luxurious life upon the earth, and have rioted in luxury; ye have nourished your hearts, as in the day of slaughter.

To eat much honey is not good: and to seek out their honor, not honor.

Love is slow to anger, possesses kindness; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,

Lifting up the eyes and enlarging the heart, the light of the unjust is sin.

Thou shalt not show thyself proud before the king, and thou shalt not stand in the place of the great. For good to say to thee, Come up hither, rather than humbling thyself before the noble whom thine eye saw.

And whoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled; and whoever shall humble himself, shall be exalted.

For whoever exalts himself shall be humbled; and he humbling himself shall be exalted.

In brotherly love, being kindly affectioned to one another; in honour preceding one another.

Be ye not many teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive the greater judgment.

And it will be from after this, and Absalom will make to him. chariots and horses, and fifty men running before him.

And Adonijah, son of Haggith being lifted up, saying, I will reign; and he will make to himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.

And thou saidst in thy heart, I will go up to the heavens; from above to the stars of God I will lift up my throne, and I will sit upon the mountain of appointment in the thighs of the north.

Wherefore did I see them terrified, drawing back behind? and their strong ones shall be broken, and they fled a flight, and they turned not: fear being round about, says Jehovah.

Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because thy heart was lifted up, and thou wilt say, I am God, I sat upon the seat of God in the heart of the seas; and thou art man and not God, and thou wilt give thy heart as the heart of God.

And he said to her, What wilt thou? She says to him, Say that these my two sons might sit, the one on thy right hand, and one on thy left, in thy kingdom.

And love the first place at suppers, and the first seat in the assemblies, And greetings in the markets, and to be called by men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

Hold from the scribes, wishing to walk about in robes, and loving greetings in the markets, and precedencies in assemblies, and the first places at tables at suppers;

And he spake a parable to the called, fixing his attention how they chose out the first places at table; saying to them,

And a love of strife was in them, which of them thinks to be the greater.

For they loved the honour of men more than the honour of God.

Who being opposed and lifted up above all called God, or which is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Thou shalt not be after multitudes for evil; thou shalt not answer for the multitude to stretch out after multitudes to pervert justice.

For what is a man profited, if he should gain the whole world, and injure his soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and injure his soul Or what shall a man give for the exchange of his soul?

For what is a man profited, having gained the whole world, and having lost himself, or having been damaged?

And be ye not conformed to this life, but be transformed by the renovation of your mind, for you to prove what the good, and the pleasing, and the perfected will of God.

Think of things above, and not upon those upon the earth.

None making war is entangled with the affairs of life: that he may please him having enlisted him.

Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and eager worldly desires, we should live discreetly, and justly, and religiously, in the time now;

Adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is the enmity of God? whoever therefore would wish to be the friend of the world is set the enemy of God.

For as they were in the days of the inundation, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noe came into the ark,

And from one they all began to conciliate. The first said to him, I bought a field, and have necessity to go and see it: I ask thee, have me pardoned.

For Demas has forsaken me, having loved the time now, and has gone to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

And they wishing to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many eager desires, unwise and hurtful, which sink men into ruin and perdition. For the root of all evils is the love of money: which some striving for, have been led astray from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many pains.

Ye shall not trust in oppression, ye shall not become vain in plunder: if wealth shall increase ye shall not set the heart

A man of faithfulness multiplied blessings: and he hesting to be rich shall not be innocent

And he said to them, See, and watch yourselves from covetousness: for not in the abounding to any one of his possessions is his life.

And I shall see in the plunder a wide cloak of Shinar, a good one, and two hundred shekels of silver and one tongue of gold of fifty shekels from its weight, and I shall desire them, and shall take them, and behold them hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.

And Gehazi the boy of Elisha, the man of God, will say, Behold, my lord spared Naaman this Aramite from taking from his hand what he brought: Jehovah lives, for if I ran after him land book from him something.

Her heads will judge for a gift, and her priests will teach for hire, and her prophets will divine for silver: and they will lean upon Jehovah, saying, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? he will not bring evil upon us.

And the young man having heard the word, departed, being grieved: for he was holding many possessions.

And he, being sad at the word, went away being grieved: for he had many possessions.

And he having heard these things, was sorely grieved: for he was very rich.

Said, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him to you? and they placed to him thirty silver coins.

And the Pharisees heard all these things, being avaricious: and they derided him.

And this he said, not that care was to him for the poor: but because he was a thief, and had the small coffer, and carried things deposited.

And her lords having seen that the hope of their gain went out, taking Paul and Silas, they drew to the assembly to the rulers,

And at the same time also hoping that money should be given him by Paul, so that he might loose him: wherefore also sending for him more frequently, he conversed with him.

Having forsaken the straight way, they were led astray, having followed in the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the reward of injustice;

That all might be judged not believing the truth but contented in iniquity.

How much more abominable and corrupt is man drinking iniquity as water!

Those rejoicing to do evil will exult in the deceit of evil;

He loving transgression loves contention: he lifting up his gate seeks breaking.