15 Bible Verses about Love to Christ

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John 15:12-13

'This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you; greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

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Love to Christ » Should be » Ardent

Song of Songs 2:5

Sustain me with grape-cakes, Support me with citrons, for I am sick with love.

Song of Songs 8:6

Set me as a seal on thy heart, as a seal on thine arm, For strong as death is love, Sharp as Sheol is jealousy, Its burnings are burnings of fire, a flame of Jah!

Love to Christ » The wicked destitute of

Psalm 35:19

Mine enemies rejoice not over me with falsehood, Those hating me without cause wink the eye.

Love to Christ » Manifested in » Obeying him

Love to Christ » Manifested in » Ministering to him

Matthew 27:55

And there were there many women beholding from afar, who did follow Jesus from Galilee, ministering to him,

Love to Christ » Should be » Even unto death

Love to Christ » They who have » Are loved by Christ

Love to Christ » Promises to

Love to Christ » Exhibited by God

John 5:20

for the Father doth love the Son, and doth shew to him all things that He himself doth; and greater works than these He will shew him, that ye may wonder.

Love to Christ » They who have » Are loved by the father

Love to Christ » His personal excellence is deserving of

Song of Songs 5:9-16

What is thy beloved above any beloved, O fair among women? What is thy beloved above any beloved, That thus thou hast adjured us? My beloved is clear and ruddy, Conspicuous above a myriad! His head is pure gold -- fine gold, His locks flowing, dark as a raven, read more.
His eyes as doves by streams of water, Washing in milk, sitting in fulness. His cheeks as a bed of the spice, towers of perfumes, His lips are lilies, dropping flowing myrrh, His hands rings of gold, set with beryl, His heart bright ivory, covered with sapphires, His limbs pillars of marble, Founded on sockets of fine gold, His appearance as Lebanon, choice as the cedars. His mouth is sweetness -- and all of him desirable, This is my beloved, and this my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem!

Love to Christ » Manifested in » Seeking him

Song of Songs 3:2

-- Pray, let me rise, and go round the city, In the streets and in the broad places, I seek him whom my soul hath loved! -- I sought him, and I found him not.

Love to Christ » Should be » With the soul

Song of Songs 1:7

Declare to me, thou whom my soul hath loved, Where thou delightest, Where thou liest down at noon, For why am I as one veiled, By the ranks of thy companions?

Love to Christ » Should be » Unquenchable

Song of Songs 8:7

Many waters are not able to quench the love, And floods do not wash it away. If one give all the wealth of his house for love, Treading down -- they tread upon it.

Love to Christ » Want of, denounced

Love to Christ » A characteristic of saints

Song of Songs 1:4

Draw me: after thee we run, The king hath brought me into his inner chambers, We do joy and rejoice in thee, We mention thy loves more than wine, Uprightly they have loved thee!

Love to Christ » His love to us a motive to

Love to Christ » Exemplified » Joseph of arimathea

Matthew 27:57-60

And evening having come, there came a rich man, from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also himself was discipled to Jesus, he having gone near to Pilate, asked for himself the body of Jesus; then Pilate commanded the body to be given back. And having taken the body, Joseph wrapped it in clean linen, read more.
and laid it in his new tomb, that he hewed in the rock, and having rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, he went away;

Love to Christ » Increase of, to be prayed for

Love to Christ » Should be » Sincere

Love to Christ » Pray for grace to those who have

Love to Christ » Decrease of, rebuked

Love to Christ » Manifested in » Preferring him to all others

Love to Christ » Manifested in » Taking up the cross for him

Love to Christ » Exemplified » Peter

John 21:15-17

When, therefore, they dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, 'Simon, son of Jonas, dost thou love me more than these?' he saith to him, 'Yes, Lord; thou hast known that I dearly love thee;' he saith to him, 'Feed my lambs.' He saith to him again, a second time, 'Simon, son of Jonas, dost thou love me?' he saith to him, 'Yes, Lord; thou hast known that I dearly love thee;' he saith to him, 'Tend my sheep.' He saith to him the third time, 'Simon, son of Jonas, dost thou dearly love me?' Peter was grieved that he said to him the third time, 'Dost thou dearly love me?' and he said to him, 'Lord, thou hast known all things; thou dost know that I dearly love thee.' Jesus saith to him, 'Feed my sheep;

Love to Christ » Should be » Supreme

Love to Christ » Exhibited by saints

Love to Christ » Exemplified » Mary magdalene

John 20:11

and Mary was standing near the tomb, weeping without; as she was weeping, then, she stooped down to the tomb, and beholdeth two messengers in white, sitting,

Love to Christ » They who have » Enjoy communion with God and Christ

Love to Christ » Exemplified » Certain women

Luke 23:28

and Jesus having turned unto them, said, 'Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but for yourselves weep ye, and for your children;

Love to Christ » Exemplified » Thomas

John 11:16

therefore said Thomas, who is called Didymus, to the fellow-disciples, 'We may go -- we also, that we may die with him,'

Love to Christ » Exemplified » Paul

Love to Christ » Exemplified » Penitent woman

Luke 7:47

therefore I say to thee, her many sins have been forgiven, because she did love much; but to whom little is forgiven, little he doth love.'

Love to Christ » Should be » In proportion to our mercies

Luke 7:47

therefore I say to thee, her many sins have been forgiven, because she did love much; but to whom little is forgiven, little he doth love.'

Love to Christ » An evidence of adoption

John 8:42

Jesus then said to them, 'If God were your father, ye were loving me, for I came forth from God, and am come; for neither have I come of myself, but He sent me;

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