79 Bible Verses about Love For God

I show mercy (loving kindness) to thousands of generations of those who love me and obey my commandments.

You must love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with your entire mind and with all your strength.

Keep in mind that Jehovah your God is the only true God. He is the faithful God. He keeps his promise and is merciful to thousands of generations of those who love him and obey his commandments.

Now, O Israel, what does Jehovah your God require from you? You are to respect Jehovah your God. Walk in all his ways and love him! Serve Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your being.

Love Jehovah your God, and obey all his laws, regulations and commandments.

do not listen to them. Jehovah your God is allowing them to test you. He will then know that you love Jehovah with all your heart.

Jehovah your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, to LOVE JEHOVAH YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART AND WITH ALL YOUR BEING, that you may live.

Be sure you obey the Law that Moses commanded you. Love Jehovah your God. Do his will. Obey his commandments and be faithful to him. Serve him with all your heart and with all your being (Nephesh: living being).

Take heed of yourselves to love Jehovah your God.

([Psalm of David]) I love you, O Jehovah, my strength.

Love Jehovah, all you godly ones! Jehovah protects faithful people, but he pays back in full those who act arrogantly.

Be happy with Jehovah and he will provide you with the desires of your heart.

Listen, O daughter, pay attention and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father's house. Then the King will desire your beauty. Bow down to him because he is your Lord.

You satisfy me with the richest foods. My mouth will sing your praise with joyful lips. As I lie on my bed, I remember you. Through the long hours of the night, I think about you.

God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it. The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell in it.

Who have I in heaven but you? I desire none on earth except you. My flesh and my heart fail: God is the strength of my heart, and my portion forever.

Because you love me, I will rescue you. I will protect you because you know my name.

You who love Jehovah hate evil! He preserves his anointed ones. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

I love Jehovah because he hears my voice when I pray.

Jehovah protects all who love him, but he will destroy the wicked.

I love those who love me. Those who earnestly seek me will find me.

My son, give me your heart and let your eyes keep my ways.

Foreigners have become allied with Jehovah, to serve Jehovah, to love the name of Jehovah, and to worship him. They keep the Sabbath without desecrating it and hold fast to my covenant. I will bring them to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar. My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.

Go and announce to Jerusalem, 'This is what Jehovah says: I remember the unfailing loyalty of your youth, the love you had for me as a bride. I remember how you followed me into the desert, into a land that was not sown (farmed). Israel was dedicated (consecrated) to Jehovah. It was the best part of the harvest. All who consumed it became guilty, and disaster struck them,' says Jehovah.

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. He who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

The King will say to those on his right hand: 'Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. I was hungry and you gave me something to eat. I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink. I was a stranger and you took me in. I was naked and you clothed me. I was sick and you visited me. I was in prison and you came to me.'read more.
The righteous will answer him: 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? When did we see you as a stranger and take you in, or naked and dress you? When did we see you sick or in prison and come to you?' The King will answer: 'To the extent that you did it to one of the least of my brothers, you did it to me.'

The women who followed Jesus from Galilee and ministered to him watched from a distance. Included among the women were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee. A disciple of Jesus named Joseph, a rich man from Arimathea,read more.
went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Pilate commanded that it be given to him. Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth. He laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out of the rock. Then he rolled a great stone in front of the door of the tomb, and departed. Mary Magdalene was near the tomb. The other Mary was also there.

Whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you are Christ's, most assuredly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward.

Jesus answered: The first is, Hear, O Israel; Jehovah our God is one God (Jehovah). You should love Jehovah your God with all your heart, and with all your being (with every breath you take) (your life), with your entire mind and with all your strength. (Deuteronomy 6:4)

The scribe said to him: It is true teacher you've said it well that he is one and there is no one else besides him. To love him with all the heart, and with all understanding, and with total strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is much more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.

Let your servant depart according to your word in peace.

She loved much! She has many sins and they are forgiven. When little is forgiven, little love is shown.

Woe to you Pharisees! You tithe mint and rue and every herb, and pass over justice and the love of God. You should have done these but you leave them undone.

I know that the love of God is not in you.

Jesus said: If God were your Father you would love me. I came from God! I have not come from myself. He sent me!

If you love me, you will keep (obey) my commandments!

He that has my commandments, and obeys them loves me. My Father will love the person who loves me. I will love him and disclose myself to him.

Jesus answered: If a man loves me, he will obey my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and dwell with him.

You heard me say I will go away and I will come again to you. If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I go to the Father. The Father is greater than I!

I love you just as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love.

The Father loves you, because you loved me, and believed that I came from the Father.

I have made your name known, and will make it known. That way your love for me may be with them and I may be with them.

The third time Jesus said to him: Simon, son of John, do you have affection for me? Peter was grieved. Because he said to him the third time, do you have affection for me? Peter replied: Lord, you know all things; you know I have affection for you! Jesus said to him: Feed my sheep.

Why do you weep and break my heart? Paul answered: For I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

Hope does not disappoint because the love of God has been shed abroad in our hearts. It comes through Holy Spirit, which is God's gift to us.

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

But if any man loves God, God knows him.

If any man does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. Come O Lord!

We are of good courage, I say, and are willing to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

For the love of Christ compels us to judge, that one died for all and therefore all died. He died for all that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for their sakes and rose again.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision means anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

Never should I boast except in the stake (symbolic: self-denial and atonement) of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is through this stake that the world has been impaled to me, and I to the world.

May Christ dwell in your hearts through faith to the end that you will be rooted and grounded in love. May you be able to comprehend with all the holy ones the breadth and length and height and depth. And may you know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge. May you be filled with all the fullness of God.

By speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in all things to him. For he, Christ, is the head.

Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an incorruptible (sincere) (principled) (unending) love.

I pray that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment.

I am hard pressed between the two. I have the desire to depart and be with Christ for it is far better.

Things that offered gain to me I count a loss for Christ. I count all things to be loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. I suffered the loss of all things. Yet I count them as refuse (garbage) (dung) that I may gain Christ.

He also declared your love to us in the Spirit.

May the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patience (steadfastness) of Christ.

God has not given us a spirit of timidity (fear), but of power and love and discipline.

Hold firmly to the true words that I taught you, as the example for you to follow. Remain in the faith and love that are ours in union with Christ Jesus.

The crown of righteousness is laid up for me. The Lord, the righteous judge, will give it to me at that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing (manifestation).

I hear about your love, and about the faith you have toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all the holy ones.

For God is not unrighteous (unjust) to forget your work and the love you showed for his name. You ministered to the holy ones and continue to minister.

The man who endures under trial is blessed. For when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life that God promised to those who love him.

Listen, my dearly beloved brothers! Did God choose poor people in the world to be rich in faith and to receive the kingdom he promised to those who love him?

You love him without seeing him. Though you do not see him, you believe in him. Full of glory, you rejoice greatly with indescribable joy.

This precious value is for those who believe. But for the unbeliever: The stone that the builders rejected became the cornerstone.

Whoever obeys his Word; the love of God is made perfect (complete) (mature) in him. By this we know that we are in union with him.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Whoever has this world's goods and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his compassion from him, how does the love of God dwell in him? My Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

No one has seen God at any time! If we love one another, God lives with us, and his love is perfected (accomplished) (matured) through us.

We know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love! He who continues with love lives with God and God lives with him. This is love made perfect through us, that we may have boldness in the Day of Judgment. Just as he is, we are, amid (exposed to) this world. There is no fear in love. Perfect (mature) love throws out (expels) fear because fear involves restraint (punishment). He who fears is not made perfect (mature) (complete) through love.read more.
We love, because he first loved us. If a man says, I love God, yet he hates his brother, he is a liar! He who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. We have this commandment from him, that he who loves God should love his brother also.

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. Whoever loves him that causes the birth also loves him that is born. This is how we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we obey his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.

This is love that we walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment that you heard from the beginning. You should walk in it.

Stay in the love of God! Look (wait) for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ for everlasting life.

However I have this against you: you do not love me now as you did at first.