'Love' in the Bible

If I speak in the languages of humans and angels but have no love, I have become a reverberating gong or a clashing cymbal.

If I have the gift of prophecy and can understand all secrets and every form of knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains but have no love, I am nothing.

Even if I give away everything that I have and sacrifice myself, but have no love, I gain nothing.

Love is always patient; love is always kind; love is never envious or arrogant with pride. Nor is she conceited,

Love never fails. Now if there are prophecies, they will be done away with. If there are languages, they will cease. If there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

Right now three things remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Keep on pursuing love, and keep on desiring spiritual gifts, especially the ability to prophesy.

If anyone doesn't love the Lord, let him be !

May my love remain with all of you in union with the Messiah Jesus.

I wrote to you out of great sorrow and anguish of heart along with many tears not to make you sad but to let you know how much love I have for you.

That's why I'm urging you to assure him of your love.

The love of the Messiah controls us, for we are convinced of this: that one person died for all people; therefore, all people have died.

with purity, knowledge, patience, and kindness; with the Holy Spirit, genuine love,

Indeed, the more your faith, speech, knowledge, enthusiasm, and love for us increase, the more we want you to be rich in this work of kindness.

I am not commanding you but testing the genuineness of your love by the enthusiasm of others.

Therefore, demonstrate to the churches that you love them and show them publicly why we boast about you.

Because your service in giving proves your love, you will be glorifying God as you obey what your confession of the Messiah's gospel demands, since you are generous in sharing with them and with everyone else.

Why? Because I do not love you? God knows that I do!

I will be very glad to spend my money and myself for you. Do you love me less because I love you so much?

Finally, brothers, goodbye. Keep on growing to maturity. Keep listening to my appeals. Continue agreeing with each other and living in peace. Then the God of love and peace will be with you.

May the grace of the Lord Jesus the Messiah, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you!

for in union with the Messiah Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision matters. What matters is faith expressed through love.

For you, brothers, were called to freedom. Only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity to gratify your flesh, but through love make it your habit to serve one another.

For the whole Law is summarized in a single statement: "You must love your neighbor as yourself."

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

just as he chose us in the Messiah before the creation of the universe to be holy and blameless in his presence. In love

Therefore, because I have heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of his great love for us

and that the Messiah would make his home in your hearts through faith. Then, having been rooted and grounded in love,

that is, you will know the love of the Messiah which transcends knowledge, and will be filled with all the fullness of God.

demonstrating all expressions of humility, gentleness, and patience, accepting one another in love.

Instead, by speaking the truth in love, we will grow up completely and become one with the head, that is, one with the Messiah,

in whom the whole body is united and held together by every ligament with which it is supplied. As each individual part does its job, the body builds itself up in love.

Husbands, love your wives as the Messiah loved the church and gave himself for it,

In the same way, husbands must love their wives as they love their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself.

But each individual man among you must love his wife as he loves himself; and may the wife fear her husband.

May peace and love, with faith, be with the brothers, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus, the Messiah!

May grace be with all who sincerely love the Lord Jesus, the Messiah!

And this is my prayer, that your love will keep on growing more and more with full knowledge and insight,

The latter are motivated by love, because they know that I have been appointed to defend the gospel.

Therefore, if there is any encouragement in the Messiah, if there is any comfort of love, if there is any fellowship in the Spirit, if there is any compassion and sympathy,

then fill me with joy by having the same attitude, sharing the same love, being united in spirit, and keeping one purpose in mind.

because we have heard about your faith in the Messiah Jesus and the love that you have for all the saints,

He has told us about your love in the Spirit.

Because they are united in love, I pray that their hearts may be encouraged by all the riches that come from a complete understanding of the full knowledge of the Messiah, who is the mystery of God.

Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which ties everything together in unity.

Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

In the presence of our God and Father, we constantly remember how your faith is active, your love is hard at work, and your hope in our Lord Jesus the Messiah is enduring.

But Timothy has just now returned from visiting you and has told us the good news about your faith and love. He also told us that you always have fond memories of us and want to see us, just as we want to see you.

May the Lord greatly increase your love for each other and for all people, just as we love you.

Now you do not need anyone to write to you about brotherly love, since you have been taught by God to love each other.

In fact, you are showing love to all the brothers throughout Macedonia, but we urge you, brothers, to keep on doing this even more.

But since we belong to the day, let's be sober. We must put on the breastplate of faith and love, and the hope of salvation as a helmet.

Brothers, at all times we are obligated to thank God for you. It is right to do this because your faith is growing all the time and the love every one of you has for each other is increasing.

and every type of evil to deceive those who are dying, those who refused to love the truth that would save them.

May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the endurance of the Messiah.

The goal of this instruction is love that flows from a pure heart, from a clear conscience, and from a sincere faith.

and the grace of our Lord overflowed toward me, along with the faith and love that are in the Messiah Jesus.

even though she will be saved through the birth of the Child, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, along with good judgment.

He must not drink excessively or be a violent person, but instead be gentle. He must not be argumentative or love money.

Do not let anyone look down on you because you are young, but be an example for other believers in your speech, behavior, love, faithfulness, and purity.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, in their eagerness to get rich, have wandered away from the faith and caused themselves a lot of pain.

But you, man of God, must flee from all these things. Instead, you must pursue righteousness, godliness, faithfulness, love, endurance, and gentleness.

For God did not give us a spirit of timidity but one of power, love, and self-discipline.

Hold on to the pattern of healthy teachings that you have heard from me, along with the faith and love that are in the Messiah Jesus.

Flee from youthful passions. Instead, pursue righteousness, faithfulness, love, and peace together with those who call on the Lord with a pure heart.

But you have observed my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance,

because Demas, having fallen in love with this present world, has abandoned me and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

Older men are to be sober, serious, sensible, and sound in faith, love, and endurance.

They should encourage the younger women to love their husbands, to love their children,

In grace our Savior God appeared, to make his love for mankind clear.

"Twas not for deeds that we had done, but by his steadfast love alone, he saved us through a second birth, renewed us by the Spirit's work,

All who are with me send you greetings. Greet our fellow believers who love us. May grace be with all of you! Amen.

because I keep hearing about your love for all the saints and the faith that you have in the Lord Jesus.

For I have received considerable joy and encouragement from your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed, brother, through you.

I prefer to make my appeal on the basis of love. I, Paul, as an old man and now a prisoner of the Messiah Jesus,

For God is not so unjust as to forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have ministered to the saints and continue to minister to them.

And let us continue to consider how to motivate one another to love and good deeds,

Let brotherly love continue.

Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be content with what you have, for God has said, "I will never leave you or abandon you."

Nevertheless, you are doing the right thing if you obey the royal Law in keeping with the Scripture, "You must love your neighbor as yourself."

Though you have not seen him, you love him. And even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy,

Now that you have obeyed the truth and have purified your souls to love your brothers sincerely, you must love one another intensely and with a pure heart.

Finally, all of you must live in harmony, be sympathetic, love as brothers, and be compassionate and humble.

"For the person who wants to love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

Above all, continue to love each other deeply, because love covers a multitude of sins.

your godliness with brotherly kindness, and your brotherly kindness with love.

For he received honor and glory from God the Father when these words from the Majestic Glory were spoken about him: "This is my Son, whom I love. I am pleased with him."

But whoever continually keeps his commandments is the kind of person in whom God's love has truly been perfected. This is how we can be sure that we are in union with God:

Stop loving the world and the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, the Father's love is not in him.

See what kind of love the Father has given us: We are called God's children and that is what we are! For this reason the world does not recognize us, because it did not recognize him, either.

This is how God's children and the Devil's children are distinguished. No person who fails to practice righteousness and to love his brother is from God.

This is the message that you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love one another. The person who does not love remains spiritually dead.

This is how we have come to know love: the Messiah gave his life for us. We, too, ought to give our lives for our brothers.

Whoever has earthly possessions and notices a brother in need and yet withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God be present in him?

Little children, we must stop expressing love merely by our words and manner of speech; we must love also in action and in truth.

And this is his commandment: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus the Messiah, and to love one another as he commanded us.

Dear friends, let us continuously love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born from God and knows God.

The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love.