15 Bible Verses about Love to Christ

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John 15:12-13

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.

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Love to Christ » Should be » Ardent

Song of Songs 2:5

Sustain me with cakes, and refresh me with apples, for I am pierced of love.

Song of Songs 8:6

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

Psalm 35:19

Mine enemies shall not rejoice over me for falsehood: they hating me gratuitously shall pinch the eye.

Love to Christ » Manifested in » Obeying him

Love to Christ » Manifested in » Ministering to him

Matthew 27:55

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

Love to Christ » They who have » Are loved by Christ

Love to Christ » Promises to

Love to Christ » Exhibited by God

Love to Christ » They who have » Are loved by the father

Love to Christ » His personal excellence is deserving of

Song of Songs 5:9-16

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

Song of Songs 3:2

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

Song of Songs 1:7

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

Song of Songs 8:7

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

Song of Songs 1:4

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

Love to Christ » Exemplified » Joseph of arimathea

Matthew 27:57-60

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

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

Love to Christ » Manifested in » Taking up the cross for him

Love to Christ » Exemplified » Peter

John 21:15-17

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

Love to Christ » Exhibited by saints

Love to Christ » Exemplified » Mary magdalene

John 20:11

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

Love to Christ » Exemplified » Certain women

Luke 23:28

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

John 11:16

Then said Thomas, called Didymus, to his fellow disciples, Let us also go, that we might die with him.

Love to Christ » Exemplified » Paul

Love to Christ » Exemplified » Penitent woman

Luke 7:47

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

Luke 7:47

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

John 8:42

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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