35 Bible Verses about Love And Relationships

to all this add love, which is the band of perfect union:

may the Lord make you increase and abound in mutual love, in love towards all men, as we do towards you:

I advise you in like manner to lay out your fallacious treasure in acts of charity, that when you die, they may secure to you everlasting habitations.

but above all, let your mutual benevolence be intense, for benevolence cancels a multitude of offences.

but being sincere in mutual love, may be entirely united to Christ, who is the head:

compleat my joy, by pursuing the same view, living in mutual love, by being unanimous, and cultivating that harmony.

and not only so, but we have present joy in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now obtained the reconciliation.

in brotherly kindness be passionately affected to one another; in honour prefer one another:

if we say that we have communion with him, and walk in darkness, we lye, and do not act sincerely:

for the same temper of mind ought to be in you as was in Christ Jesus:

by this was the love of God displayed towards us, in that God sent his only begotten son into the world, that we might live thro' him.

wherefore let every one of you without exception, love his wife even as himself; and let the wife respect her husband.

these words contain a very mystical sense, I mean in reference to Christ and the church.

so that your souls may be possess'd with faith in Christ.

The PRESBYTER to the lady ECLECTA and her children, whom I sincerely love, and not only I, but all true christians,

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

for you are all the sons of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

for the husband presides over his wife, as Christ presides over the church: and he it is that preserves the whole body.

Jude the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those that are sanctified by God the father, and by their vocation are reserved for Jesus Christ.

meat does not recommend us to God: if we eat, we are not the better men; if we don't eat, we are not the worse.

such is he, who heaps up his treasure here, and makes no provision for another world.

no man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten son, who is intimate with the father, hath made him known.

and let us animate one another to the mutual returns of love, and kind offices: not abandoning our assemblies,

Be mutually obsequious with christian respect.

Now this is all owing to God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath made us the ministers of this reconciliation;

amen. for this cause God gave them up to infamous passions: for even the sex perverted the instinct of nature:

Jesus said to them, if God were your father, ye would love me: for I was commissioned by God to come; I did not come of my self, but he sent me.

he that is married is worldly concern'd, how he may please his wife.

for if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his son: much more being reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

'tis for this end I have sent you Timothy, who is my dear disciple, and a faithful christian, who will inform you how I behave my self in every church where I teach the gospel of Christ.

consequently they are no longer two, but one person.

Are you not become associates with infidels? but what affinity is there between virtue and vice? and what communication has light with darkness?

for all the law is comprehended in this one precept, "thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."

what we have seen and heard, we declare unto you, that ye also may be of the same society with us: and truly associated with the father, and with his son Jesus Christ.

You husband, love your spouse, even as Christ loved the church, and laid down his life for her: