Thematic Bible: Examples of love for Christ


Thematic Bible




But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, has made us alive together with Christ, (by grace you are saved;)



The LORD opens the eyes of the blind: the LORD raises them that are bowed down: the LORD loves the righteous:




But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, has the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.





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.



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,

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



[To the Chief Musician. A maschil, for the Sons of Korah.] As the hart pants after the water brooks, so pants my soul after you, O God.

Whom have I in heaven but you? and there is none upon earth that I desire besides you.


My soul longs, yea, even faints for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.


[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.



But Mary stood outside at the sepulcher weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulcher,


Then said Thomas, who is called Didymus, unto his fellow disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.


He said to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, do you love me? He said unto him, Yea, Lord; you know that I love you. He said unto him, Feed my sheep.




Therefore I say unto you, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little.


Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment.