These men are dangerous reefs at your love feasts, feasting without reverence, feeding only themselves. They are waterless clouds, carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit -- twice dead, uprooted;

"The Lord who rules over all says, 'The fast of the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months will become joyful and happy, pleasant feasts for the house of Judah, so love truth and peace.'

Feasts are made for laughter, and wine makes life merry, but money is the answer for everything.

Like the sheep for offerings, like the sheep of Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so will the ruined cities be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the Lord."

It will be the duty of the prince to provide the burnt offerings, the grain offering, and the drink offering at festivals, on the new moons and Sabbaths, at all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel; he will provide the sin offering, the grain offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings to make atonement for the house of Israel.

"'When the people of the land come before the Lord at the appointed feasts, whoever enters by way of the north gate to worship will go out by way of the south gate; whoever enters by way of the south gate will go out by way of the north gate. No one will return by way of the gate they entered but will go out straight ahead.

"'At the festivals and at the appointed feasts the grain offering will be an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as one is able, and a gallon of olive oil with each ephah of grain.

and you make an offering by fire to the Lord from the herd or from the flock (whether a burnt offering or a sacrifice for discharging a vow or as a freewill offering or in your solemn feasts) to create a pleasing aroma to the Lord,

The womb forgets him, the worm feasts on him, no longer will he be remembered. Like a tree, wickedness will be broken down.

"If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

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

There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears punishment has not been perfected in love.

If anyone says "I love God" and yet hates his fellow Christian, he is a liar, because the one who does not love his fellow Christian whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

Jesus said a third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was distressed that Jesus asked him a third time, "Do you love me?" and said, "Lord, you know everything. You know that I love you." Jesus replied, "Feed my sheep.

Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up.

The Lord said to me, "Go, show love to your wife again, even though she loves another man and continually commits adultery. Likewise, the Lord loves the Israelites although they turn to other gods and love to offer raisin cakes to idols."

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

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

"I give you a new commandment -- to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

I grieve over you, my brother Jonathan! You were very dear to me. Your love was more special to me than the love of women.

The expert answered, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and love your neighbor as yourself."

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

Grace be with all of those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.

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

Now on the topic of brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

See how I love your precepts! O Lord, revive me with your loyal love!

In this way they will train the younger women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Loyal love and truth preserve a king, and his throne is upheld by loyal love.

You have purified your souls by obeying the truth in order to show sincere mutual love. So love one another earnestly from a pure heart.

Above all keep your love for one another fervent, because love covers a multitude of sins.

We know that we have crossed over from death to life because we love our fellow Christians. The one who does not love remains in death.

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

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments.

How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine; the fragrance of your perfume is better than any spice!

Surging waters cannot quench love; floodwaters cannot overflow it. If someone were to offer all his possessions to buy love, the offer would be utterly despised.

I will sing to my love -- a song to my lover about his vineyard. My love had a vineyard on a fertile hill.

If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commandments and remain in his love.

Then when they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these do?" He replied, "Yes, Lord, you know I love you." Jesus told him, "Feed my lambs."

Jesus said a second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" He replied, "Yes, Lord, you know I love you." Jesus told him, "Shepherd my sheep."

Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

"I have shown love to you," says the Lord, but you say, "How have you shown love to us?" "Esau was Jacob's brother," the Lord explains, "yet I chose Jacob

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

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

Just before the Passover feast, Jesus knew that his time had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now loved them to the very end.

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

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

In 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.

"Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain in my love.

Then I said, "Please, O LORD God of heaven, great and awesome God, who keeps his loving covenant with those who love him and obey his commandments,

a loving doe, a graceful deer; may her breasts satisfy you at all times, may you be captivated by her love always.

Now I will most gladly spend and be spent for your lives! If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,

and live in love, just as Christ 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

Nevertheless, each one of you must also love his own wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another.

We love because he loved us first.

And the commandment we have from him is this: that the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian too.