18 Bible Verses about God, Love Of
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He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
The LORD appeared of old to me, saying, 'Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you.
We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world does not know us, because it did not know him.
But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.
Immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens parting, and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. And a voice came out of the sky, "You are my beloved Son, with you I am well pleased."
For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel.
Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves me, he will keep my word; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling place with him.
But the LORD's loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children's children;
Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever. Give thanks to the God of gods; for his loving kindness endures forever. Give thanks to the Lord of lords; for his loving kindness endures forever:read more.
To him who alone does great wonders; for his loving kindness endures forever: To him who by understanding made the heavens; for his loving kindness endures forever: To him who spread out the earth above the waters; for his loving kindness endures forever: To him who made the great lights; for his loving kindness endures forever: The sun to rule by day; for his loving kindness endures forever; The moon and stars to rule by night; for his loving kindness endures forever: To him who struck down the Egyptian firstborn; for his loving kindness endures forever; And brought out Israel from among them; for his loving kindness endures forever; With a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm; for his loving kindness endures forever: To him who divided the Sea of Suf apart; for his loving kindness endures forever; And made Israel to pass through its midst; for his loving kindness endures forever; But overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Sea of Suf; for his loving kindness endures forever: To him who led his people through the wilderness; for his loving kindness endures forever: To him who struck great kings; for his loving kindness endures forever; And killed mighty kings; for his loving kindness endures forever: Sihon king of the Amorites; for his loving kindness endures forever; Og king of Bashan; for his loving kindness endures forever; And gave their land as an inheritance; for his loving kindness endures forever; Even a heritage to Israel his servant; for his loving kindness endures forever: Who remembered us in our low estate; for his loving kindness endures forever; And has delivered us from our adversaries; for his loving kindness endures forever: Who gives food to every creature; for his loving kindness endures forever. Oh give thanks to the God of heaven; for his loving kindness endures forever.
"Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you. Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.
for whom the LORD loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
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God, Love Of » Manifested towards » His saints
for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from God.
Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me.
We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
God, Love Of » Described as » Sovereign
but because the LORD loves you, and because he would keep the oath which he swore to 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.
Only the LORD had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as at this day.
God, Love Of » Is a part of his character
Finally, brothers, rejoice. Be perfected, be comforted, be of the same mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.
He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
God, Love Of » Irrespective of merit
What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,
The LORD did not set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:
God, Love Of » Exhibited in » Redemption
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place.
God, Love Of » Exhibited in » Christ's dying for us while sinners
But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
In this is love, not that we have loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
God, Love Of » Christ, the especial object of
I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them."
God, Love Of » Manifested towards » Perishing sinners
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
God, Love Of » To be sought in prayer
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.
God, Love Of » Manifested towards » The cheerful giver
Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.
God, Love Of » Manifested towards » The destitute
He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.
God, Love Of » Exhibited in » Defeating evil counsels
Nevertheless the LORD your God wouldn't listen to Balaam; but the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because the LORD your God loved you.
God, Love Of » Exhibited in » Temporal blessings
and he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you; he will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.
God, Love Of » Exhibited in » Quickening souls
But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
God, Love Of » Described as » Unfailing
"Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you. Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.
God, Love Of » Described as » Abiding
The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.
God, Love Of » Described as » Everlasting
The LORD appeared of old to me, saying, 'Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you.
God, Love Of » Exhibited in » Election
"I have loved you," says the LORD. Yet you say, "How have you loved us?" "Wasn't Esau Jacob's brother?" says the LORD, "Yet I loved Jacob; but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness."
God, Love Of » Described as » Great
God, Love Of » Exhibited in » Forgiving sin
Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
God, Love Of » Exhibited in » Chastisements
God, Love Of » Perfected in saints » By brotherly love
No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
God, Love Of » Exhibited in » Freeness of salvation
But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared, not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of rebirth and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior; read more.
that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
God, Love Of » Described as » Unalienable
nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
God, Love Of » The source of our love to him
God, Love Of » Saints know and believe
We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
God, Love Of » Perfected in saints » By obedience
But whoever keeps his word, God's love has truly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:
God, Love Of » Exhibited in » The sending of Christ
By this God's love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
God, Love Of » Exhibited in » Drawing us to himself
I drew them with cords of a man, with ties of love; and I was to them like those who lift up the yoke on their necks; and I bent down to him and I fed him.
God, Love Of » Described as » Constraining
I drew them with cords of a man, with ties of love; and I was to them like those who lift up the yoke on their necks; and I bent down to him and I fed him.
God, Love Of » Exhibited in » Adoption
Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world does not know us, because it did not know him.
God, Love Of » Shed abroad in the heart by the holy ghost
and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
God, Love Of » Christ abides in
If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and remain in his love.
God, Love Of » Exhibited in » The giving of Christ
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
God, Love Of » Saints should abide in
Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.