'Loves' in the Bible

Go to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, and I will make them into a delicious meal for your father—the kind he loves.

and we answered my lord, ‘We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’

He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.

But if your slave says to you, ‘I don’t want to leave you,’ because he loves you and your family, and is well off with you,

Yet the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam, but He turned the curse into a blessing for you because the Lord your God loves you.

Indeed He loves the people.All Your holy ones are in Your hand,and they assemble at Your feet.Each receives Your words.

He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. Indeed, your daughter-in-law, who loves you and is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”

Then King Hiram of Tyre wrote a letter and sent it to Solomon:Because the Lord loves His people, He set you over them as king.

For the Lord is righteous; He loves righteous deeds.The upright will see His face.

He loves righteousness and justice;the earth is full of the Lord’s unfailing love.

For the Lord loves justiceand will not abandon His faithful ones.They are kept safe forever,but the children of the wicked will be destroyed.

He chooses for us our inheritance—the pride of Jacob, whom He loves.Selah

The Lord loves the gates of Zionmore than all the dwellings of Jacob.

The mighty King loves justice.You have established fairness;You have administered justiceand righteousness in Jacob.

Your word is completely pure,and Your servant loves it.

In vain you get up early and stay up late,working hard to have enough food—yes, He gives sleep to the one He loves.

The Lord opens the eyes of the blind.The Lord raises up those who are oppressed.The Lord loves the righteous.

for the Lord disciplines the one He loves,just as a father, the son he delights in.

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge,but one who hates correction is stupid.

The one who will not use the rod hates his son,but the one who loves him disciplines him diligently.

The Lord detests the way of the wicked,but He loves the one who pursues righteousness.

Righteous lips are a king’s delight,and he loves one who speaks honestly.

A friend loves at all times,and a brother is born for a difficult time.

One who loves to offend loves strife;one who builds a high threshold invites injury.

The one who acquires good sense loves himself;one who safeguards understanding finds success.

The one who loves pleasure will become a poor man;whoever loves wine and oil will not get rich.

The one who loves a pure heartand gracious lips—the king is his friend.

A man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father,but one who consorts with prostitutes destroys his wealth.

The one who loves money is never satisfied with money, and whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with income. This too is futile.

Y Who is this coming up from the wilderness,leaning on the one she loves?W I awakened you under the apricot tree.There your mother conceived you;there she conceived and gave you birth.

All of you, assemble and listen!Who among the idols has declared these things?The Lord loves him;he will accomplish His will against Babylon,and His arm will be against the Chaldeans.

Then the Lord said to me, “Go again; show love to a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, just as the Lord loves the Israelites though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.”

Ephraim is a well-trained calfthat loves to thresh,but I will place a yoke on her fine neck.I will harness Ephraim;Judah will plow;Jacob will do the final plowing.

A merchant loves to extortwith dishonest scales in his hands.

Judah has acted treacherously, and a detestable thing has been done in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the Lord’s sanctuary, which He loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

The person who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; the person who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

because he loves our nation and has built us a synagogue.”

Therefore I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven; that’s why she loved much. But the one who is forgiven little, loves little.”

The Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hands.

For the Father loves the Son and shows Him everything He is doing, and He will show Him greater works than these so that you will be amazed.

This is why the Father loves Me, because I am laying down My life so I may take it up again.

The one who loves his life will lose it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

The one who has My commands and keeps them is the one who loves Me. And the one who loves Me will be loved by My Father. I also will love him and will reveal Myself to him.”

Jesus answered, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.

For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came from God.

Do not owe anyone anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

But if anyone loves God, he is known by Him.

Each person should do as he has decided in his heart—not reluctantly or out of necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver.

In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

He has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son He loves.

for the Lord disciplines the one He lovesand punishes every son He receives.

The one who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.

Do not love the world or the things that belong to the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.

Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

And we have this command from Him: The one who loves God must also love his brother.

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Messiah has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves the one born of Him.

I wrote something to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to have first place among them, does not receive us.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead and the ruler of the kings of the earth.To Him who loves us and has set us free from our sins by His blood,

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying.