15 Bible Verses about Love to Christ
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To whom your love is given, though you have not seen him; and the faith which you have in him, though you do not see him now, gives you joy greater than words and full of glory:
By this it will be clear to all men that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.
This is the law I give you: Have love one for another, even as I have love for you. Greater love has no man than this, that a man gives up his life for his friends.
And he, answering, said, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and for your neighbour as for yourself.
My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.
And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.
But in every man who keeps his word, the love of God is made complete. By this we may be certain that we are in him:
In this we see what love is, because he gave his life for us; and it is right for us to give our lives for the brothers.
The man who says, I have knowledge of him, and does not keep his laws, is false, and there is nothing true in him:
If a man says, I have love for God, and has hate for his brother, his words are false: for how is the man who has no love for his brother whom he has seen, able to have love for God whom he has not seen?
I give you a new law: Have love one for another; even as I have had love for you, so are you to have love one for another.
Husbands, have love for your wives, even as Christ had love for the church, and gave himself for it;
If any man has not love for the Lord, let him be cursed. Maran atha (our Lord comes).
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Love to Christ » Should be » Ardent
Make me strong with wine-cakes, let me be comforted with apples; I am overcome with love.
Put me as a sign on your heart, as a sign on your arm; love is strong as death, and wrath bitter as the underworld: its coals are coals of fire; violent are its flames.
Love to Christ » The wicked destitute of
If you are hated by the world, keep in mind that I was hated by the world before you.
This comes about so that the writing in their law may be made true, Their hate for me was without cause.
Do not let my haters be glad over me falsely; let not those who are against me without cause make sport of me.
Love to Christ » Manifested in » Obeying him
He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.
Jesus said to him in answer, If anyone has love for me, he will keep my words: and he will be dear to my Father; and we will come to him and make our living-place with him.
Love to Christ » Manifested in » Ministering to him
And the King will make answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, Because you did it to the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.
And a number of women were there, watching from a distance, who had come with Jesus from Galilee, waiting on his needs.
Love to Christ » Should be » Even unto death
Then Paul said, What are you doing, weeping and wounding my heart? for I am ready, not only to be a prisoner, but to be put to death at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
And they overcame him through the blood of the Lamb and the word of their witness; and loving not their lives they freely gave themselves up to death.
Love to Christ » They who have » Are loved by Christ
Those who have given me their love are loved by me, and those who make search for me with care will get me.
He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.
Love to Christ » Promises to
There is a blessing on the man who undergoes testing; because, if he has God's approval, he will be given the crown of life, which the Lord has said he will give to those who have love for him.
From now on, the crown of righteousness is made ready for me, which the Lord, the upright judge, Will give to me at that day: and not only to me, but to all those who have had love for his revelation.
Love to Christ » Exhibited by God
While he was still talking, a bright cloud came over them: and a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased; give ear to him.
For the Father has love for the Son and lets him see everything which he does: and he will let him see greater works than these so that you may be full of wonder.
Love to Christ » They who have » Are loved by the father
He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.
For the Father himself gives his love to you, because you have given your love to me and have had faith that I came from God.
Love to Christ » His personal excellence is deserving of
What is your loved one more than another, O fairest among women? What is your loved one more than another, that you say this to us? My loved one is white and red, the chief among ten thousand. His head is as the most delicate gold; his hair is thick, and black as a raven. read more.
His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the water streams, washed with milk, and rightly placed. His face is as beds of spices, giving out perfumes of every sort; his lips like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh. His hands are as rings of gold ornamented with beryl-stones; his body is as a smooth plate of ivory covered with sapphires. His legs are as pillars of stone on a base of delicate gold; his looks are as Lebanon, beautiful as the cedar-tree. His mouth is most sweet; yes, he is all beautiful. This is my loved one, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
Love to Christ » Manifested in » Seeking him
I will get up now and go about the town, in the streets and in the wide ways I will go after him who is the love of my soul: I went after him, but I did not see him.
Love to Christ » Should be » With the soul
Say, O love of my soul, where you give food to your flock, and where you make them take their rest in the heat of the day; why have I to be as one wandering by the flocks of your friends?
Love to Christ » Should be » Unquenchable
Much water may not put out love, or the deep waters overcome it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would be judged a price not great enough.
Love to Christ » Want of, denounced
If any man has not love for the Lord, let him be cursed. Maran atha (our Lord comes).
Love to Christ » A characteristic of saints
Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers.
Love to Christ » His love to us a motive to
For it is the love of Christ which is moving us; because we are of the opinion that if one was put to death for all, then all have undergone death;
Love to Christ » Exemplified » Joseph of arimathea
And in the evening, there came a man of wealth from Arimathaea, Joseph by name, who was a disciple of Jesus: This man went in to Pilate, and made a request for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate gave orders for it to be given to him. And Joseph took the body, folding it in clean linen, read more.
And put it in the resting-place which had been cut out of the rock for himself; and after rolling a great stone to the door of it he went away.
Love to Christ » Increase of, to be prayed for
And my prayer is that you may be increased more and more in knowledge and experience;
Love to Christ » Should be » Sincere
Love to Christ » Pray for grace to those who have
Love to Christ » Decrease of, rebuked
But I have this against you, that you are turned away from your first love.
Love to Christ » Manifested in » Preferring him to all others
He who has more love for his father or mother than for me is not good enough for me; he who has more love for son or daughter than for me is not good enough for me.
Love to Christ » Manifested in » Taking up the cross for him
And he who does not take his cross and come after me is not good enough for me.
Love to Christ » Exemplified » Peter
Then when they had taken food, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, is your love for me greater than the love of these others? He said to him, Yes, Lord; you are certain of my love for you. He said to him, Then give my lambs food. Again, a second time, he said to him, Simon, son of John, have you any love for me? Yes, Lord, he said, you are certain of my love for you. Then take care of my sheep, said Jesus. He said to him a third time, Simon, son of John, am I dear to you? Now Peter was troubled in his heart because he put the question a third time, Am I dear to you? And he said to him, Lord, you have knowledge of all things; you see that you are dear to me. Jesus said to him, Then give my sheep food.
Love to Christ » Should be » Supreme
He who has more love for his father or mother than for me is not good enough for me; he who has more love for son or daughter than for me is not good enough for me.
Love to Christ » Exhibited by saints
To whom your love is given, though you have not seen him; and the faith which you have in him, though you do not see him now, gives you joy greater than words and full of glory:
Love to Christ » Exemplified » Mary magdalene
But Mary was still there outside the hole in the rock, weeping; and while she was weeping and looking into the hole,
Love to Christ » They who have » Enjoy communion with God and Christ
Jesus said to him in answer, If anyone has love for me, he will keep my words: and he will be dear to my Father; and we will come to him and make our living-place with him.
Love to Christ » Exemplified » Certain women
But Jesus, turning to them, said, Daughters of Jerusalem, let not your weeping be for me, but for yourselves and for your children.
Love to Christ » Exemplified » Thomas
Then Thomas, who was named Didymus, said to the other disciples, Let us go so that we may be with him in death.
Love to Christ » Exemplified » Paul
Then Paul said, What are you doing, weeping and wounding my heart? for I am ready, not only to be a prisoner, but to be put to death at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
Love to Christ » Exemplified » Penitent woman
And so I say to you, She will have forgiveness for her sins which are great in number, because of her great love: but he who has small need of forgiveness gives little love.
Love to Christ » Should be » In proportion to our mercies
And so I say to you, She will have forgiveness for her sins which are great in number, because of her great love: but he who has small need of forgiveness gives little love.
Love to Christ » An evidence of adoption
Jesus said to them, If God was your Father you would have love for me, because it was from God I came and am here. I did not come of myself, but he sent me.
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