22 Bible Verses about The Need To Love God

And the Lord your God is to be loved with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

And now, Israel, what would the Lord your God have you do, but to go in the fear of the Lord your God, walking in all his ways and loving him and doing his pleasure with all your heart and all your soul,

So have love for the Lord your God, and give him worship, and keep his laws and his decisions and his orders at all times.

And it will be that if you truly give ear to the orders which I put before you this day, loving the Lord your God and worshipping him with all your heart and all your soul,

For if you take care to keep all the orders which I give you, and to do them; loving the Lord your God and walking in all his ways and being true to him:

Then give no attention to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God is testing you, to see if all the love of your heart and soul is given to him.

If you keep and do all these orders which I give you today, loving the Lord your God and walking ever in his ways; then let three more towns, in addition to these three, be marked out for you:

And the Lord your God will give to you and to your seed a circumcision of the heart, so that, loving him with all your heart and all your soul, you may have life.

In giving you orders today to have love for the Lord your God, to go in his ways and keep his laws and his orders and his decisions, so that you may have life and be increased, and that the blessing of the Lord your God may be with you in the land where you are going, the land of your heritage.

In loving the Lord your God, hearing his voice and being true to him: for he is your life and by him will your days be long: so that you may go on living in the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Only take great care to do the orders and the law which Moses, the Lord's servant, gave you; to have love for the Lord your God and to go in all his ways; and to keep his laws and to be true to him and to be his servants with all your heart and with all your soul.

So keep watch on yourselves, and see that you have love for the Lord your God.

And you are to have love for 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, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.

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.

O have love for the Lord, all you his saints; for the Lord keeps safe from danger all those who are true to him, and gives the workers of pride their right reward.

And to have love for him with all the heart, and with all the mind, and with all the strength, and to have the same love for his neighbour as for himself, is much more than all forms of offerings.

For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.

And love is the keeping of his laws. This is the law which was given to you from the first, so that you might keep it.

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:

And this is love, not that we had love for God, but that he had love for us, and sent his Son to be an offering for our sins.

We have the power of loving, because he first had love for us.