9 Bible Verses about The Need To Love God

you shall therefore love the lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, to the utmost of your understanding, and all your faculties." this is the first commandment.

Jesus said to him, "thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind."

he replied, 'tis thus, "thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, with all thy strength, and with all thy understanding; and thy neighbour as thy self."

and to love him with all the heart, with all the understanding, with all the soul, with all its faculties, and to love one's neighbour as one's self is more acceptable than all the offerings and sacrifices in the world.

for our love of God consists in the observation of his precepts: precepts that are far from being grievous.

now love consists in the practice of the divine precepts. this is the precept you have originally receiv'd, as the rule of your conduct.

but he that observes his precepts, loves God with a true and perfect love: 'tis by this we know that we are truly christians.

and what heightens his love, was this, that it was not we who first loved God, but it was he that first loved us, and sent his son to expiate our sins.

let us love him; since he first loved us.