15 Bible Verses about Love to Christ
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You have not seen him, but you love him. You do not see him now but you believe in him, and so you rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy,
Everyone will know by this that you are my disciples -- if you have love for one another."
My commandment is this -- to love one another just as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this -- that one lays down his life for his friends.
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."
Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.
and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.
But whoever obeys his word, truly in this person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in him.
We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.
The one who says "I have come to know God" and yet does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in such a person.
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.
"I give you a new commandment -- to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her
Let anyone who has no love for the Lord be accursed. Our Lord, come!
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Love to Christ » Should be » Ardent
Sustain me with raisin cakes, refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love. The Double Refrain: Embracing and Adjuration
The Beloved to Her Lover: Set me like a cylinder seal over your heart, like a signet on your arm. For love is as strong as death, passion is as unrelenting as Sheol. Its flames burst forth, it is a blazing flame.
Love to Christ » The wicked destitute of
Now this happened to fulfill the word that is written in their law, 'They hated me without reason.'
Do not let those who are my enemies for no reason gloat over me! Do not let those who hate me without cause carry out their wicked schemes!
Love to Christ » Manifested in » Obeying him
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."
Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him.
Love to Christ » Manifested in » Ministering to him
And the king will answer them, 'I tell you the truth, just as you did it for one of the least of these brothers or sisters of mine, you did it for me.'
Many women who had followed Jesus from Galilee and given him support were also there, watching from a distance.
Love to Christ » Should be » Even unto death
Then Paul replied, "What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be tied up, but even to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus."
But they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives so much that they were afraid to die.
Love to Christ » They who have » Are loved by Christ
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."
Love to Christ » Promises to
Happy is the one who endures testing, because when he has proven to be genuine, he will receive the crown of life that God promised to those who love him.
Finally the crown of righteousness is reserved for me. The Lord, the righteous Judge, will award it to me in that day -- and not to me only, but also to all who have set their affection on his appearing.
Love to Christ » Exhibited by God
While he was still speaking, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, "This is my one dear Son, in whom I take great delight. Listen to him!"
For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he does, and will show him greater deeds than these, so that you will be amazed.
Love to Christ » They who have » Are loved by the father
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."
For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.
Love to Christ » His personal excellence is deserving of
The Maidens to The Beloved: Why is your beloved better than others, O most beautiful of women? Why is your beloved better than others, that you would command us in this manner? The Beloved to the Maidens: My beloved is dazzling and ruddy; he stands out in comparison to all other men. His head is like the most pure gold. His hair is curly -- black like a raven. read more.
His eyes are like doves by streams of water, washed in milk, mounted like jewels. His cheeks are like garden beds full of balsam trees yielding perfume. His lips are like lilies dripping with drops of myrrh. His arms are like rods of gold set with chrysolite. His abdomen is like polished ivory inlaid with sapphires. His legs are like pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, choice as its cedars. His mouth is very sweet; he is totally desirable. This is my beloved! This is my companion, O maidens of Jerusalem!
Love to Christ » Manifested in » Seeking him
"I will arise and look all around throughout the town, and throughout the streets and squares; I will search for my beloved." I searched for him but I did not find him.
Love to Christ » Should be » With the soul
The Beloved to Her Lover: Tell me, O you whom my heart loves, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest your sheep during the midday heat? Tell me lest I wander around beside the flocks of your companions!
Love to Christ » Should be » Unquenchable
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.
Love to Christ » Want of, denounced
Let anyone who has no love for the Lord be accursed. Our Lord, come!
Love to Christ » A characteristic of saints
Draw me after you; let us hurry! May the king bring me into his bedroom chambers! The Maidens to the Lover: We will rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine. The Beloved to Her Lover: How rightly the young women adore you!
Love to Christ » His love to us a motive to
For the love of Christ controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died.
Love to Christ » Exemplified » Joseph of arimathea
Now when it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who was also a disciple of Jesus. He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered that it be given to him. Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, read more.
and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut in the rock. Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance of the tomb and went away.
Love to Christ » Increase of, to be prayed for
And I pray this, that your love may abound even more and more in knowledge and every kind of insight
Love to Christ » Should be » Sincere
Grace be with all of those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.
Love to Christ » Pray for grace to those who have
Grace be with all of those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.
Love to Christ » Decrease of, rebuked
Love to Christ » Manifested in » Preferring him to all others
"Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Love to Christ » Manifested in » Taking up the cross for him
And whoever does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
Love to Christ » Exemplified » Peter
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." 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 to Christ » Should be » Supreme
"Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Love to Christ » Exhibited by saints
You have not seen him, but you love him. You do not see him now but you believe in him, and so you rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy,
Love to Christ » Exemplified » Mary magdalene
But Mary stood outside the tomb weeping. As she wept, she bent down and looked into the tomb.
Love to Christ » They who have » Enjoy communion with God and Christ
Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him.
Love to Christ » Exemplified » Certain women
But Jesus turned to them and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.
Love to Christ » Exemplified » Thomas
So Thomas (called Didymus) said to his fellow disciples, "Let us go too, so that we may die with him."
Love to Christ » Exemplified » Paul
Then Paul replied, "What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be tied up, but even to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus."
Love to Christ » Exemplified » Penitent woman
Therefore I tell you, her sins, which were many, are forgiven, thus she loved much; but the one who is forgiven little loves little."
Love to Christ » Should be » In proportion to our mercies
Therefore I tell you, her sins, which were many, are forgiven, thus she loved much; but the one who is forgiven little loves little."
Love to Christ » An evidence of adoption
Jesus replied, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me.
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