These people are stains on your love feasts. They feast with you without any sense of awe. They are shepherds who care only for themselves. They are waterless clouds blown about by the winds. They are autumn trees that are fruitless, totally dead, and uprooted.

The entire life of the afflicted seems disastrous, but a good heart feasts continuously.

"If you love those who love you, what thanks do you deserve? Why, even sinners love those who love them.

Then the LORD told me: "Go love your wife again, even though she is being loved by another and is committing adultery. Love her the same way the LORD loves the people of Israel, even though they look to other gods and love raisin cakes."

Jesus told him, "Take care of my sheep." He asked him a third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was deeply hurt that he had asked him a third time, "Do you love me?" So he told him, "Lord, you know everything. You know that I love you!"

Love is always patient; love is always kind; love is never envious or arrogant with pride. Nor is she conceited,

We have come to know and rely on the love that God has for us. God is love, and the person who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

There is no fear where love exists. Rather, perfect love banishes fear, for fear involves punishment, and the person who lives in fear has not been perfected in love.

Whoever says, "I love God," but hates his brother is a liar. The one who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love the God whom he has not seen.

In the same way, husbands must love their wives as they love their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself.

I'm giving you a new commandment"to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.

Dear friends, let us continuously love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born from God and knows God.

The LORD appeared to Israel from far away and said, "I've loved you with an everlasting love, therefore I've drawn you with gracious love.

but showing gracious love to the thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

but showing gracious love to the thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

I am in distress for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been most kind to me. Your love for me was extraordinary beyond love from women.

You love those who hate you and hate those who love you! You've made it abundantly clear today that your officers and the men under them mean nothing to you! I've learned today that you would rather have Absalom alive today and all the rest of us dead!

"You have demonstrated abundant gracious love to your servant David, my father, as he lived in your presence truthfully, righteously, and uprightly in his heart. In addition, you have kept on showing this abundant gracious love by giving him a son to sit on his throne today. Now, LORD my God, you have set me as king to replace my father David, but I'm still young. I don't have any leadership skills.

To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding, and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all the burnt offerings and sacrifices."

He answered, "You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind. And you must love your neighbor as yourself."

I said, "Please, LORD, God of Heaven, the great and fearsome God who keeps the covenant, showing gracious love to those who love you and keep your commands,

If you keep my commandments, you'll abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

When they had finished breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?" Peter told him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you." Jesus told him, "Feed my lambs."

Then he asked him a second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter told him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you."

Arise! Deliver us! Redeem us according to your gracious love! To the Director: An instruction by the Sons of Korah. A love song to the tune of "Lilies".

Love never does anything that is harmful to its neighbor. Therefore, love is the fulfillment of the Law.

Right now three things remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.

"Lord! Great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant and gracious love for those who love him and obey his commandments, we've sinned, we've practiced evil, we've acted wickedly, and we've rebelled, turning away from your commands and from your regulations.

Hate evil, you who love the LORD! He guards the lives of those who love him, delivering them from domination by the wicked.

I will be very glad to spend my money and myself for you. Do you love me less because I love you so much?

Look how I love your precepts, LORD; revive me according to your gracious love.

May the Lord greatly increase your love for each other and for all people, just as we love you.

Now you do not need anyone to write to you about brotherly love, since you have been taught by God to love each other.

They should encourage the younger women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Come, let's make love until dawn; let's comfort ourselves with love,

I love those who love me, and those who seek me will find me.

The LORD your God among you is powerful he will save and he will take joyful delight in you. In his love he will renew you with his love; he will celebrate with singing because of you.

Gracious love and truth preserve a king; through love his throne is made secure.

Now that you have obeyed the truth and have purified your souls to love your brothers sincerely, you must love one another intensely and with a pure heart.

Above all, continue to love each other deeply, because love covers a multitude of sins.

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love one another. The person who does not love remains spiritually dead.

Little children, we must stop expressing love merely by our words and manner of speech; we must love also in action and in truth.

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

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

This is how we know that we love God's children: we love God and keep his commandments.

Take me with you! Let's run away! Let the king bring me into his private chambers. The daughters of Jerusalem will rejoice and be happy for you. We will value your love more than wine. They love you appropriately.

How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride. How much better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume than all kinds of spices.

Set me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm. For love is as strong as death, passion as intense as Sheol. The flames of love are flames of fire, a blaze that comes from the LORD.

Mighty bodies of water cannot extinguish love, rivers cannot put it out. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love, he would surely be viewed with contempt.

I will sing for my beloved my love-song concerning his vineyard: "The one I love had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.

If you love those who love you, what reward will you have? Even the tax collectors do the same, don't they?

The person who has my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I, too, will love him and reveal myself to him."

Just as the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. So abide in my love.

Stop loving the world and the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, the Father's love is not in him.

This is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

But along the way, Naomi told her two daughters-in-law, "Each of you go back home. Return to your mother's house. May the LORD show his gracious love to you, as you have shown me and our loved ones who have died.

Jonathan made David vow again out of his love for him, because he loved him as himself.