15 Bible Verses about Love to Christ
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Whom not having seen, ye love; in whom, now not seeing, but believing, ye are transported with joy unalterable, and highly valued:
For me to live is Christ, and to die gain.
In this all shall know that ye are disciples to me, if ye have love in one another.
This is my command, That ye love one another, as I loved you. Greater love than this has none, that any lay down his life for his friends.
And he having answered, said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God from thy whole heart, and from thy whole soul, and from thy whole strength; and thy neighbor as thyself.
Dearly beloved, we should love one another: for love is of God; and every one loving has been born of God, and knows God.
And walk ye in love, as also Christ loved us, and gave himself for us a gift and sacrifice to God for a smell of sweet odor.
Whoever should keep his word, truly in him has the word of God been completed: in this we know that we are in him.
In this have we known love, for he set his soul for us: and we ought to set the souls for the brethren.
He saying, I have known him, and not keeping his commands, is a liar, and in him is not the truth.
If any say, I love God, and hate his brother, he is a liar: for he not loving his brother whom he has seen, God whom he has not seen, how can he love?
A new command give I to you, That ye love one another: as I loved you, that ye also love one another.
Husbands, love your own wives, as also Christ loved the church, and delivered himself up for it;
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Love to Christ » Should be » Ardent
Sustain me with cakes, and refresh me with apples, for I am pierced of love.
Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love was strong as death; jealousy hard as hades: its flames, flames of fire, flames of Jehovah.
Love to Christ » The wicked destitute of
But that the word written in their law might be completed, That they hated me gratuitously.
Mine enemies shall not rejoice over me for falsehood: they hating me gratuitously shall pinch the eye.
Love to Christ » Manifested in » Obeying him
He having my commands, and keeping them, the same is he loving me: and he loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and manifest myself to him.
Jesus answered and said to him, If any one love me, he will keep my word: and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and we will make our stay with him.
Love to Christ » Manifested in » Ministering to him
And the king having answered, will say to them, Trull I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did to one of the least of my brethren, ye did to me.
And many women were there, beholding from far off, who followed Jesus out of Galilee, serving him:
Love to Christ » Should be » Even unto death
And Paul answered, What do ye weeping and breaking my heart? for I not only to be bound, but to die at Jerusalem, have prepared for the name of the Lord Jesus.
And they conquered him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their souls till death.
Love to Christ » They who have » Are loved by Christ
He having my commands, and keeping them, the same is he loving me: and he loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and manifest myself to him.
Love to Christ » Promises to
Happy the man who endures temptation: for being tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them loving him.
As to the rest, the crown of justice is laid up for me, which the Lord will assign to me in that day, the just judge: and not only to me, but also to all them having loved his appearance.
Love to Christ » Exhibited by God
He yet speaking, behold, a shining cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my dearly beloved Son, in whom I was contented; hear ye him.
For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all which himself does: and he will show him greater than these, that ye might wonder.
Love to Christ » They who have » Are loved by the father
He having my commands, and keeping them, the same is he loving me: and he loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and manifest myself to him.
For the Father himself loves you, for ye have loved me, and believed that I came forth from God.
Love to Christ » His personal excellence is deserving of
What is thy beloved above the beloved, O beautiful one among women? What thy beloved above the beloved, that thou didst thus adjure us? My beloved is white and ruddy, bearing the standard of ten thousand. His head purified gold, his locks waving branches, black as a raven. read more.
His eyes as doves upon channels of waters washed with milk, sitting upon fulness. His cheeks as beds of spices, towers of aromatic herbs: his lips lilies, dropping overflowing myrrh. His hands rings of gold completed in Tarshish: his bowels wrought ivory covered over with sapphires. His legs bases of white marble, founded upon of pure gold: his aspect as Lebanon, choice as the cedars. His palate, sweetness: he is all loveliness. This my beloved, and this my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
Love to Christ » Manifested in » Seeking him
I will arise now, and I will go round about in the city; in the streets, and in the broad places I will seek him whom my soul loved. I sought him, and I found him not
Love to Christ » Should be » With the soul
Announce to me, thou whom my soul loved, where thou wilt feed, where thou wilt lie down at noon: wherefore shall I be as he covered by the herds of thy companions.
Love to Christ » Should be » Unquenchable
Many waters shall not be able to quench love, and rivers shall not overwhelm it: if a man shall give all the riches of his house for love, despising, they shall be despised for him.
Love to Christ » Want of, denounced
Love to Christ » A characteristic of saints
Draw me, we will run after thee: the king brought me to his chambers: we will exult and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy breasts above wine: the upright loved thee.
Love to Christ » His love to us a motive to
For the love of Christ holds us together; having judged this, that if one died for all, then all dead:
Love to Christ » Exemplified » Joseph of arimathea
And being evening, then there came a rich man from Arimathea, Joseph by name, who also himself was a disciple to Jesus: He having come to Pilate, asked the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered the body to be given back. And Joseph having taken the body, inwrapped it in clean fine linen: read more.
And put it in his new tomb, which he quarried in the rock: and having rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, he departed.
Love to Christ » Increase of, to be prayed for
And this I prey, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all intelligence;
Love to Christ » Should be » Sincere
Love to Christ » Pray for grace to those who have
Love to Christ » Decrease of, rebuked
Love to Christ » Manifested in » Preferring him to all others
He loving father or mother above me, is not worthy of me; and he loving son or daughter above me, is not worthy of me.
Love to Christ » Manifested in » Taking up the cross for him
Love to Christ » Exemplified » Peter
Then, when they had dined, Jesus says to Simon Peter, Simon of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He says to him, Yes, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He says to him, Feed my lambs. Jesus says to him again the second time, Simon of Jonas, lovest thou me? He says to him, Yes, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He says to him, Feed my sheep. He says to him the third time, Simon of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved that he said the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said to him, Lord, thou knowest all; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus says to him, Feed my sheep.
Love to Christ » Should be » Supreme
He loving father or mother above me, is not worthy of me; and he loving son or daughter above me, is not worthy of me.
Love to Christ » Exhibited by saints
Whom not having seen, ye love; in whom, now not seeing, but believing, ye are transported with joy unalterable, and highly valued:
Love to Christ » Exemplified » Mary magdalene
And Mary stood near the tomb weeping without: therefore as she wept, she stood stooping into the tomb,
Love to Christ » They who have » Enjoy communion with God and Christ
Jesus answered and said to him, If any one love me, he will keep my word: and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and we will make our stay with him.
Love to Christ » Exemplified » Certain women
And having turned towards them Jesus said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.
Love to Christ » Exemplified » Thomas
Then said Thomas, called Didymus, to his fellow disciples, Let us also go, that we might die with him.
Love to Christ » Exemplified » Paul
And Paul answered, What do ye weeping and breaking my heart? for I not only to be bound, but to die at Jerusalem, have prepared for the name of the Lord Jesus.
Love to Christ » Exemplified » Penitent woman
For which I say to thee, Her many sins are remitted; for she loved much: and he to whom little is remitted, loves little.
Love to Christ » Should be » In proportion to our mercies
For which I say to thee, Her many sins are remitted; for she loved much: and he to whom little is remitted, loves little.
Love to Christ » An evidence of adoption
Then said Jesus to them, If God were your Father, ye had loved me: for I went forth from God, and came; for I have not come of myself, but he sent me.
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