These are the ones who are like dangerous reefs at your love feasts. They feast with you, nurturing only themselves without fear. They are waterless clouds carried along by winds; trees in late autumn—fruitless, twice dead, pulled out by the roots;

The king contributed from his own possessions for the regular morning and evening burnt offerings, the burnt offerings of the Sabbaths, of the New Moons, and of the appointed feasts, as written in the law of the Lord.

At their feasts they have lyre, harp,
tambourine, flute, and wine.
They do not perceive the Lord’s actions,
and they do not see the work of His hands.

I will put an end to all her celebrations:
her feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—
all her festivals.

I hate, I despise your feasts!
I can’t stand the stench
of your solemn assemblies.

I will turn your feasts into mourning
and all your songs into lamentation;
I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth
and every head to be shaved.
I will make that grief
like mourning for an only son
and its outcome like a bitter day.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.

Come, let’s drink deeply of lovemaking until morning.
Let’s feast on each other’s love!

“For this is what the Lord says: Don’t enter a house where a mourning feast is taking place. Don’t go to lament or sympathize with them, for I have removed My peace from these people”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“as well as My faithful love and compassion.

When they had eaten breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these?”

“Yes, Lord,” he said to Him, “You know that I love You.”

“Feed My lambs,” He told him.

He asked him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?”

Peter was grieved that He asked him the third time, “Do you love Me?” He said, “Lord, You know everything! You know that I love You.”

“Feed My sheep,” Jesus said.

Love is patient, love is kind.
Love does not envy,
is not boastful, is not conceited,

Set me as a seal on your heart,
as a seal on your arm.
For love is as strong as death;
ardent love is as unrelenting as Sheol.
Love’s flames are fiery flames—
the fiercest of all.

And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

There is no fear in love; instead, perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. So the one who fears has not reached perfection in love.

If anyone says, “I love God,” yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For the person who does not love his brother he has seen cannot love the God he has not seen.

Then the Lord said to me, “Go again; show love to a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, just as the Lord loves the Israelites though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.”

I will sing about the one I love,
a song about my loved one’s vineyard:
The one I love had a vineyard
on a very fertile hill.

“I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you must also love one another.

the Lord appeared to him from far away.
I have loved you with an everlasting love;
therefore, I have continued to extend faithful love to you.

Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

Do not love the world or the things that belong to the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.

A second time He asked him, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?”

“Yes, Lord,” he said to Him, “You know that I love You.”

“Shepherd My sheep,” He told him.

Consider how I love Your precepts;
Lord, give me life according to Your faithful love.

I love those who love me,
and those who search for me find me.

Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Love, therefore, is the fulfillment of the law.

Now these three remain:
faith, hope, and love.
But the greatest of these is love.

How delightful your love is, my sister, my bride.
Your love is much better than wine,
and the fragrance of your perfume than any balsam.

I opened to my love,
but my love had turned and gone away.
I was crushed that he had left.
I sought him, but did not find him.
I called him, but he did not answer.

I am my love’s and my love is mine;
he feeds among the lilies.

Mighty waters cannot extinguish love;
rivers cannot sweep it away.
If a man were to give all his wealth for love,
it would be utterly scorned.

About brotherly love: You don’t need me to write you because you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

but showing faithful love to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commands.

If you keep My commands you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commands and remain in His love.

I will make known the Lord’s faithful love
and the Lord’s praiseworthy acts,
because of all the Lord has done for us—
even the many good things
He has done for the house of Israel
and has done for them based on His compassion
and the abundance of His faithful love.

I grieve for you, Jonathan, my brother.
You were such a friend to me.
Your love for me was more wonderful
than the love of women.

You love your enemies and hate those who love you! Today you have made it clear that the commanders and soldiers mean nothing to you. In fact, today I know that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead, it would be fine with you!

And Solomon replied, “You have shown great and faithful love to Your servant, my father David, because he walked before You in faithfulness, righteousness, and integrity. You have continued this great and faithful love for him by giving him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today.

For if you love those who love you, what reward will you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?

The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God remains in us and His love is perfected in us.

This is how we know that we love God’s children when we love God and obey His commands.

And this is love: that we walk according to His commands. This is the command as you have heard it from the beginning: you must walk in love.

Above all, maintain an intense love for each other, since love covers a multitude of sins.

We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.

By obedience to the truth, having purified yourselves for sincere love of the brothers, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,

but showing faithful love to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commands.

And to love Him with all your heart, with all your understanding, and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself, is far more important than all the burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

The one who has My commands and keeps them is the one who loves Me. And the one who loves Me will be loved by My Father. I also will love him and will reveal Myself to him.”

In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

“As the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you. Remain in My love.

Jonathan once again swore to David in his love for him, because he loved him as he loved himself.

Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

A loving doe, a graceful fawn—
let her breasts always satisfy you;
be lost in her love forever.

Do not owe anyone anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

I will most gladly spend and be spent for you. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

And walk in love, as the Messiah also loved us and gave Himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her

Jesus answered, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.

This is My command: Love one another as I have loved you.

I made Your name known to them
and will make it known,
so the love You have loved Me with
may be in them and I may be in them.

After this, Amnon hated Tamar with such intensity that the hatred he hated her with was greater than the love he had loved her with. “Get out of here!” he said.

He loves righteousness and justice;
the earth is full of the Lord’s unfailing love.

Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also must love one another.

We love because He first loved us.

And we have this command from Him: The one who loves God must also love his brother.