12 Bible Verses about Love Shown By Deeds
Most Relevant Verses
my dear children, let not our love be only in the language of our lips, but in the real effects of the heart.
your charitable offices, your faith, and your patience, and that your last works exceed the first.
for God is too just to his promise not to regard your piety, and the love which you have shewn to the christian religion by the assistance ye have given to the saints, and still continue to give.
and let us animate one another to the mutual returns of love, and kind offices: not abandoning our assemblies,
it will be said, "you have a speculative faith, but mine is practical. where is your faith, if no effects appear? as for me, my actions will vouch for my faith.
if ye love me, keep my commandments. and I will pray the father, and he shall give you another advocate, to abide with you for ever; even the spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees nor knows him: but ye shall know him, for he shall dwell with you, and shall be in you.read more.
I will not leave you orphans; I will come again to you. yet a little while, and the world shall see me no more: but ye shall see me: because I shall live again, and ye shall live also. then shall you know, that I am in my father, and you in me, and I in you. he that hath received my commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loves me: and he that loves me, shall be beloved by my father, and I will love him, and shew my self unto him. Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, why Lord, will you show your self to us, and not to the world? Jesus answered him, he that loves me, will observe my precepts: and my father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
but herein hath God displayed his love towards us, in that Christ died for us, even while we were yet sinners.
now if your brother be endanger'd by your eating, you violate the obligations of love: for such a matter as eating, will you risk his life, for whom Christ died?
I am crucified with Christ, it is not I that now live, but Christ that liveth in me; the life I have in this body I live by faith in the son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
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.
by this we may know that we love the children of God, if we love God, and keep his commandments. for our love of God consists in the observation of his precepts: precepts that are far from being grievous.
