And he said, Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and get you into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell you of.

And make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless you before I die.

And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

And Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD has looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.

And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

You shall not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.

But the stranger that dwells with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.

And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.

The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all people:

Know therefore that the LORD your God, he is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;

And he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you: he will also bless the fruit of your womb, and the fruit of your land, your grain, and your wine, and your oil, the increase of your cattle, and the flocks of your sheep, in the land which he swore unto your fathers to give you.

And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

Only the LORD had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their descendants after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.

Love you therefore the stranger: for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Therefore you shall love the LORD your God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, always.

And it shall come to pass, if you shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

For if you shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;

You shall not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God is testing you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

If you shall keep all these commandments to do them, which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to walk always in his ways; then shall you add three more cities for you, besides these three:

And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your descendants, to love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.

In that I command you this day to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that you may live and multiply: and the LORD your God shall bless you in the land where you go to possess it.

That you may love the LORD your God, and that you may obey his voice, and that you may cleave unto him: for he is your life, and the length of your days: that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that you love the LORD your God.

So let all your enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when it goes forth in its might. And the land had rest forty years.

And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, You do but hate me, and love me not: you have put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and have not told it to me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told it to my father nor my mother, and shall I tell it to you?

And she said unto him, How can you say, I love you, when your heart is not with me? you have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.

And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Talk with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you: now therefore be the king's son-in-law.

I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant have you been unto me: your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

And he said unto him, Why are you, being the king's son, so haggard from day to day? will you not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.

Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone.

In that you love your enemies, and hate your friends. For you have declared this day, that you regard neither princes nor servants: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it would have pleased you well.

Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, You shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clung unto these in love.

And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Should you help the wicked, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath came upon you from the LORD.

And said, I beseech you, O LORD God of heaven, the great and awesome God, that keeps covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments:

O you sons of men, how long will you turn my glory into shame? how long will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.

But let all those that put their trust in you rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because you defend them: let them also that love your name be joyful in you.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD, who spoke to the LORD the words of this song on the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. And he said,] I will love you, O LORD, my strength.

O love the LORD, all you his saints: for the LORD preserves the faithful, and plentifully repays the proud doer.

Let all those that seek you rejoice and be glad in you: let such as love your salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.

You love righteousness, and hate wickedness: therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

You love evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.

You love all devouring words, O you deceitful tongue.

The children also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.

Let all those that seek you rejoice and be glad in you: and let such as love your salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.

Because he has set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

You that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserves the souls of his saints; he delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.

And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my supplications.

[Mem] O how love I your law! it is my meditation all the day.

[Samek] I hate vain thoughts: but your law do I love.

You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love your testimonies.

Therefore I love your commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.

Look upon me, and be merciful unto me, as you do unto those that love your name.

Consider how I love your precepts: revive me, O LORD, according to your lovingkindness.

I hate and abhor lying: but your law do I love.

Great peace have they who love your law: and nothing shall offend them.

My soul has kept your testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love you.

The LORD preserves all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.

How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scoffers delight in their scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?

Forsake her not, and she shall preserve you: love her, and she shall keep you.

Let her be as the loving deer and graceful doe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be ravished always with her love.

Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us delight ourselves with love.

I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.

That I may cause those that love me to inherit wealth; and I will fill their treasuries.

But he that sins against me wrongs his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate you: rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.

Hatred stirs up strife: but love covers all sins.

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a fatted ox with hatred.

Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaks what is right.

He that covers over a transgression seeks love; but he that repeats a matter separates close friends.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

Open rebuke is better than hidden love.

A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knows either love or hatred by all that is before them.

Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion forever in any thing that is done under the sun.

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of the life of your vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all the days of your vanity: for that is your portion in this life, and in your labor which you perform under the sun.

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for your love is better than wine.

Because of the fragrance of your good ointments your name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love you.

Draw me, we will run after you: the king has brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in you, we will remember your love more than wine: the upright love you.

I have compared you, O my love, to a mare of Pharaoh's chariots.

Behold, you are fair, my love; behold, you are fair; you have doves' eyes.

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.

Sustain me with cakes of raisins, refresh me with apples: for I am sick with love.

I charge you, O you daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or by the hinds of the field, that you stir not up, nor awake love, till it pleases.

My beloved spoke, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

The fig tree puts forth its green figs, and the vines with the tender grapes give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.

I charge you, O you daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or by the hinds of the field, that you stir not up, nor awake my love, till it pleases.

He made its posts of silver, its base of gold, the covering of its seat of purple, its interior being paved with love, by the daughters of Jerusalem.

Behold, you are fair, my love; behold, you are fair; you have doves' eyes behind your veil: your hair is like a flock of goats, going down from mount Gilead.

You are all fair, my love; there is no spot in you.

How fair is your love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is your love than wine! and the fragrance of your perfume than all spices!

I sleep, but my heart wakes: it is the voice of my beloved that knocks, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him, that I am sick with love.