9 Bible Verses about The Need To Love God

and you must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, your whole mind, and your whole strength.'

And he said to him, " 'You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, and your whole mind.'

He answered, " 'You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, your whole strength, and your whole mind,' and 'your neighbor as you do yourself.' "

and to love him with one's whole heart, one's whole understanding, and one's whole strength, and to love one's neighbor as one's self is far more than all these burnt-offerings and sacrifices."

For loving God means obeying his commands, and his commands are not burdensome,

Love means this, that we be guided by his commands. The command, as you have heard from the beginning, is to be guided by love.

but whoever obeys his message really has the love of God in perfection in his heart. This is the way we can be sure that we are in union with him;

The love consists not in our having loved God, but in his loving us and sending his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

We love because he loved us first.