22 Bible Verses about The Need To Love God

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

“Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

“You shall therefore love the Lord your God, and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments.

“It shall come about, if you listen obediently to my commandments which I am commanding you today, to love the Lord your God and to serve Him with all your heart and all your soul,

For if you are careful to keep all this commandment which I am commanding you to do, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and hold fast to Him,

you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams; for the Lord your God is testing you to find out if you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

if you carefully observe all this commandment which I command you today, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in His ways always—then you shall add three more cities for yourself, besides these three.

“Moreover the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.

in that I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, that you may live and multiply, and that the Lord your God may bless you in the land where you are entering to possess it.

by loving the Lord your God, by obeying His voice, and by holding fast to Him; for this is your life and the length of your days, that you may live in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.”

Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God and walk in all His ways and keep His commandments and hold fast to Him and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

So take diligent heed to yourselves to love the Lord your God.

and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’

And He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

O love the Lord, all you His godly ones!
The Lord preserves the faithful
And fully recompenses the proud doer.

and to love Him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as himself, is much more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome.

And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him:

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

We love, because He first loved us.