'Love' in the Bible

'Ye heard that it was said: Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and shalt hate thine enemy;

but I -- I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those cursing you, do good to those hating you, and pray for those accusing you falsely, and persecuting you,

'For, if ye may love those loving you, what reward have ye? do not also the tax-gatherers the same?

And when thou mayest pray, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites, because they love in the synagogues, and in the corners of the broad places -- standing -- to pray, that they may be seen of men; verily I say to you, that they have their reward.

'None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.

honour thy father and mother, and, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.'

And Jesus said to him, 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding --

and the second is like to it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;

they love also the chief couches in the supper, and the chief seats in the synagogues,

and because of the abounding of the lawlessness, the love of the many shall become cold;

And Jesus having looked upon him, did love him, and said to him, 'One thing thou dost lack; go away, whatever thou hast -- sell, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come, be following me, having taken up the cross.'

and thou shalt love the Lord thy God out of all thy heart, and out of thy soul, and out of all thine understanding, and out of all thy strength -- this is the first command;

and the second is like it, this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; -- greater than these there is no other command.'

and to love Him out of all the heart, and out of all the understanding, and out of all the soul, and out of all the strength, and to love one's neighbour as one's self, is more than all the whole burnt-offerings and the sacrifices.'

and he was saying to them in his teaching, 'Beware of the scribes, who will in long robes to walk, and love salutations in the market-places,

'But I say to you who are hearing, Love your enemies, do good to those hating you,

and -- if ye love those loving you, what grace have ye? for also the sinful love those loving them;

'But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward will be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest, because He is kind unto the ungracious and evil;

for he doth love our nation, and the synagogue he did build to us.'

and they not having wherewith to give back, he forgave both; which then of them, say thou, will love him more?'

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.'

And he answering said, 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God out of all thy heart, and out of all thy soul, and out of all thy strength, and out of all thy understanding, and thy neighbour as thyself.'

'But woe to you, the Pharisees, because ye tithe the mint, and the rue, and every herb, and ye pass by the judgment, and the love of God; these things it behoveth to do, and those not to be neglecting.

'Woe to you, the Pharisees, because ye love the first seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the market-places.

'No domestic is able to serve two lords, for either the one he will hate, and the other he will love; or one he will hold to, and of the other he will be heedless; ye are not able to serve God and mammon.'

for God did so love the world, that His Son -- the only begotten -- He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

'And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;

the Father doth love the Son, and all things hath given into his hand;

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.

but I have known you, that the love of God ye have not in yourselves.

'Because of this doth the Father love me, because I lay down my life, that again I may take it;

therefore sent the sisters unto him, saying, 'Sir, lo, he whom thou dost love is ailing;'

'A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;

in this shall all know that ye are my disciples, if ye may have love one to another.'

'If ye love me, my commands keep,

he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.'

Jesus answered and said to him, 'If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;

ye heard that I said to you -- I go away, and I come unto you; if ye did love me, ye would have rejoiced that I said -- I go on to the Father, because my Father is greater than I.

but that the world may know that I love the Father, and according as the Father gave me command so I do; arise, we may go hence.

According as the Father did love me, I also loved you, remain in my love;

if my commandments ye may keep, ye shall remain in my love, according as I the commands of my Father have kept, and do remain in His love;

'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;

'These things I command you, that ye love one another;

for the Father himself doth love you, because me ye have loved, and ye have believed that I from God came forth;

I in them, and Thou in me, that they may be perfected into one, and that the world may know that Thou didst send me, and didst love them as Thou didst love me.

'Father, those whom Thou hast given to me, I will that where I am they also may be with me, that they may behold my glory that Thou didst give to me, because Thou didst love me before the foundation of the world.

and I made known to them Thy name, and will make known, that the love with which Thou lovedst me in them may be, and I in them.'

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;

and the hope doth not make ashamed, because the love of God hath been poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that hath been given to us.

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

Who shall separate us from the love of the Christ? tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

nor things about to be, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of god, that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

according as it hath been written, 'Jacob I did love, and Esau I did hate.'

The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good;

in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other -- law he hath fulfilled,

for, 'Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false testimony, Thou shalt not covet;' and if there is any other command, in this word it is summed up, in this: 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;'

the love to the neighbour doth work no ill; the love, therefore, is the fulness of law.

and if through victuals thy brother is grieved, no more dost thou walk according to love; do not with thy victuals destroy that one for whom Christ died.

And I call upon you, brethren, through our Lord Jesus Christ, and through the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in the prayers for me unto God,

what do ye wish? with a rod shall I come unto you, or in love, with a spirit also of meekness?

And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up;

and if any one doth love God, this one hath been known by Him.

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;

and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;

and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

The love doth never fail; and whether there be prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;

and now there doth remain faith, hope, love -- these three; and the greatest of these is love.

Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy,

let all your things be done in love.

if any one doth not love the Lord Jesus Christ -- let him be anathema! The Lord hath come!

my love is with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.

for out of much tribulation and pressure of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that ye might be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly toward you.

wherefore, I call upon you to confirm love to him,

for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died,

in pureness, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,

but even as in every thing ye do abound, in faith, and word, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in your love to us, that also in this grace ye may abound;

not according to command do I speak, but because of the diligence of others, and of your love proving the genuineness,

the shewing therefore of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf, to them shew ye, even in the face of the assemblies.

each one, according as he doth purpose in heart, not out of sorrow or out of necessity, for a cheerful giver doth God love,

wherefore? because I do not love you? God hath known!

Henceforth, brethren, rejoice; be made perfect, be comforted, be of the same mind, be at peace, and the God of the love and peace shall be with you;

the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, is with you all! Amen.

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh -- in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith through love working.

For ye -- to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,

for all the law in one word is fulfilled -- in this: 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;'

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,

Because of this I also, having heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and the love to all the saints,

and God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us,

that the Christ may dwell through the faith in your hearts, in love having been rooted and founded,

to know also the love of the Christ that is exceeding the knowledge, that ye may be filled -- to all the fulness of God;

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him in all things, who is the head -- the Christ;

from whom the whole body, being fitly joined together and united, through the supply of every joint, according to the working in the measure of each single part, the increase of the body doth make for the building up of itself in love.