'Love' in the Bible

How long, exalted men, will my honor be insulted?How long will you love what is worthlessand pursue a lie?Selah

But I enter Your houseby the abundance of Your faithful love;I bow down toward Your holy templein reverential awe of You.

But let all who take refuge in You rejoice;let them shout for joy forever.May You shelter them,and may those who love Your name boast about You.

Turn, Lord! Rescue me;save me because of Your faithful love.

But I have trusted in Your faithful love;my heart will rejoice in Your deliverance.

Display the wonders of Your faithful love,Savior of all who seek refugefrom those who rebel against Your right hand.

For the choir director. Of the servant of the Lord, David, who spoke the words of this song to the Lord on the day the Lord rescued him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. He said:I love You, Lord, my strength.

For the king relies on the Lord;through the faithful love of the Most Highhe is not shaken.

Only goodness and faithful love will pursue meall the days of my life,and I will dwell in the house of the Lordas long as I live.

Remember, Lord, Your compassionand Your faithful love,for they have existed from antiquity.

Do not remember the sins of my youthor my acts of rebellion;in keeping with Your faithful love, remember mebecause of Your goodness, Lord.

All the Lord’s ways show faithful love and truthto those who keep His covenant and decrees.

For Your faithful love is before my eyes,and I live by Your truth.

Lord, I love the house where You dwell,the place where Your glory resides.

I will rejoice and be glad in Your faithful lovebecause You have seen my affliction.You have known the troubles of my life

Show Your favor to Your servant;save me by Your faithful love.

May the Lord be praised,for He has wonderfully shown His faithful love to mein a city under siege.

Love the Lord, all His faithful ones.The Lord protects the loyal,but fully repays the arrogant.

Many pains come to the wicked,but the one who trusts in the Lordwill have faithful love surrounding him.

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

Now the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him—those who depend on His faithful love

May Your faithful love rest on us, Yahweh,for we put our hope in You.

Lord, Your faithful love reaches to heaven,Your faithfulness to the clouds.

God, Your faithful love is so valuablethat people take refuge in the shadow of Your wings.

Spread Your faithful love over those who know You,and Your righteousness over the upright in heart.

I did not hide Your righteousness in my heart;I spoke about Your faithfulness and salvation;I did not conceal Your constant love and truthfrom the great assembly.

Lord, do not withhold Your compassion from me;Your constant love and truth will always guard me.

Let all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You;let those who love Your salvation continually say,“The Lord is great!”

The Lord will send His faithful love by day;His song will be with me in the night—a prayer to the God of my life.

Rise up! Help us!Redeem us because of Your faithful love.

You love righteousness and hate wickedness;therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of joymore than your companions.

God, within Your temple,we contemplate Your faithful love.

For the choir director. A Davidic psalm, when Nathan the prophet came to him after he had gone to Bathsheba.Be gracious to me, God,according to Your faithful love;according to Your abundant compassion,blot out my rebellion.

For the choir director. A Davidic Maskil. When Doeg the Edomite went and reported to Saul, telling him, “David went to Ahimelech’s house.”Why brag about evil, you hero!God’s faithful love is constant.

You love evil instead of good,lying instead of speaking truthfully.Selah

You love any words that destroy,you treacherous tongue!

But I am like a flourishing olive treein the house of God;I trust in God’s faithful love forever and ever.

He reaches down from heaven and saves me,challenging the one who tramples me.SelahGod sends His faithful love and truth.

For Your faithful love is as high as the heavens;Your faithfulness reaches the clouds.

But I will sing of Your strengthand will joyfully proclaimYour faithful love in the morning.For You have been a stronghold for me,a refuge in my day of trouble.

Save with Your right hand, and answer me,so that those You love may be rescued.

May he sit enthroned before God forever;appoint faithful love and truth to guard him.

and faithful love belongs to You, Lord.For You repay each according to his works.

My lips will glorify Youbecause Your faithful love is better than life.

May God be praised!He has not turned away my prayeror turned His faithful love from me.

But as for me, Lord,my prayer to You is for a time of favor.In Your abundant, faithful love, God,answer me with Your sure salvation.

Answer me, Lord,for Your faithful love is good;in keeping with Your great compassion,turn to me.

The descendants of His servants will inherit it,and those who love His name will live in it.

Let all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You;let those who love Your salvationcontinually say, “God is great!”

Has His faithful love ceased forever?Is His promise at an end for all generations?

Show us Your faithful love, Lord,and give us Your salvation.

Faithful love and truth will join together;righteousness and peace will embrace.

For You, Lord, are kind and ready to forgive,rich in faithful love to all who call on You.

For Your faithful love for me is great,and You deliver my life from the depths of Sheol.

But You, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God,slow to anger and rich in faithful love and truth.

Will Your faithful love be declared in the grave,Your faithfulness in Abaddon?

A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite.I will sing about the Lord’s faithful love forever;I will proclaim Your faithfulness to all generationswith my mouth.

For I will declare,“Faithful love is built up forever;You establish Your faithfulness in the heavens.”

Righteousness and justice are the foundationof Your throne;faithful love and truth go before You.

My faithfulness and love will be with him,and through My namehis horn will be exalted.

I will always preserve My faithful love for him,and My covenant with him will endure.

But I will not withdrawMy faithful love from himor betray My faithfulness.

Lord, where are the former acts of Your faithful lovethat You swore to David in Your faithfulness?

Satisfy us in the morning with Your faithful loveso that we may shout with joy and be glad all our days.

to declare Your faithful love in the morningand Your faithfulness at night,

If I say, “My foot is slipping,”Your faithful love will support me, Lord.

You who love the Lord, hate evil!He protects the lives of His godly ones;He rescues them from the power of the wicked.

He has remembered His loveand faithfulness to the house of Israel;all the ends of the earthhave seen our God’s victory.

For Yahweh is good, and His love is eternal;His faithfulness endures through all generations.

A Davidic psalm.I will sing of faithful love and justice;I will sing praise to You, Lord.

He redeems your life from the Pit;He crowns you with faithful love and compassion.

The Lord is compassionate and gracious,slow to anger and rich in faithful love.

For as high as the heavens are above the earth,so great is His faithful lovetoward those who fear Him.

But from eternity to eternitythe Lord’s faithful love is toward those who fear Him,and His righteousness toward the grandchildren

Hallelujah!Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good;His faithful love endures forever.

Our fathers in Egypt did not graspthe significance of Your wonderful worksor remember Your many acts of faithful love;instead, they rebelled by the sea—the Red Sea.

remembered His covenant with them,and relented according to the richesof His faithful love.

BOOK V(Psalms 107–150)Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good;His faithful love endures forever.

Let them give thanks to the Lordfor His faithful loveand His wonderful works for all humanity.

Let them give thanks to the Lordfor His faithful loveand His wonderful works for all humanity.

Let them give thanks to the Lordfor His faithful loveand His wonderful works for all humanity.

Let them give thanks to the Lordfor His faithful loveand His wonderful works for all humanity.

Let whoever is wise pay attention to these thingsand consider the Lord’s acts of faithful love.

For Your faithful love is higher than the heavens,and Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

Save with Your right hand and answer meso that those You love may be rescued.

In return for my love they accuse me,but I continue to pray.

They repay me evil for good,and hatred for my love.

But You, Yahweh my Lord,deal kindly with me because of Your name;deliver me because of the goodness of Your faithful love.

Help me, Lord my God;save me according to Your faithful love

Not to us, Yahweh, not to us,but to Your name give glorybecause of Your faithful love, because of Your truth.

I love the Lord because He has heardmy appeal for mercy.

For His faithful love to us is great;the Lord’s faithfulness endures forever.Hallelujah!

Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good;His faithful love endures forever.

Let Israel say,“His faithful love endures forever.”

Let the house of Aaron say,“His faithful love endures forever.”

Let those who fear the Lord say,“His faithful love endures forever.”

Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good;His faithful love endures forever.

ו VavLet Your faithful love come to me, Lord,Your salvation, as You promised.

I delight in Your commands,which I love.

I will lift up my hands to Your commands,which I love,and will meditate on Your statutes.