'Love' in the Bible

“You have heard that it was said, Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.

But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

For if you love those who love you, what reward will you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?

“Whenever you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by people. I assure you: They’ve got their reward!

“No one can be a slave of two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot be slaves of God and of money.

honor your father and your mother;and love your neighbor as yourself.

He said to him, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.

The second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.

They love the place of honor at banquets, the front seats in the synagogues,

Because lawlessness will multiply, the love of many will grow cold.

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.

“The second is: Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other command greater than these.”

And to love Him with all your heart, with all your understanding, and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself, is far more important than all the burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

“But I say to you who listen: Love your enemies, do what is good to those who hate you,

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.

But love your enemies, do what is good, and lend, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is gracious to the ungrateful and evil.

Since they could not pay it back, he graciously forgave them both. So, which of them will love him more?”

He answered:Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.

“But woe to you Pharisees! You give a tenth of mint, rue, and every kind of herb, and you bypass justice and love for God. These things you should have done without neglecting the others.

“Woe to you Pharisees! You love the front seat in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces.

No household slave can be the slave of two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t be slaves to both God and money.”

“Beware of the scribes, who want to go around in long robes and who love greetings in the marketplaces, the front seats in the synagogues, and the places of honor at banquets.

but I know you—that you have no love for God within you.

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, because I came from God and I am here. For I didn’t come on My own, but He sent Me.

So the sisters sent a message to Him: “Lord, the one You love is sick.”

“I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you must also love one another.

By this all people will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”

“If you love Me, you will keep My commands.

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.

The one who doesn’t love Me will not keep My words. The word that you hear is not Mine but is from the Father who sent Me.

On the contrary, I am going away so that the world may know that I love the Father. Just as the Father commanded Me, so I do.“Get up; let’s leave this place.

“As the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you. Remain in My love.

If you keep My commands you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commands and remain in His love.

This is My command: Love one another as I have loved you.

No one has greater love than this, that someone would lay down his life for his friends.

This is what I command you: Love one another.

If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.

I made Your name known to themand will make it known,so the love You have loved Me withmay be in them and I may be in them.

When they had eaten breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these?”“Yes, Lord,” he said to Him, “You know that I love You.”“Feed My lambs,” He told him.

A second time He asked him, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?”“Yes, Lord,” he said to Him, “You know that I love You.”“Shepherd My sheep,” He told him.

He asked him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?”Peter was grieved that He asked him the third time, “Do you love Me?” He said, “Lord, You know everything! You know that I love You.”“Feed My sheep,” Jesus said.

This hope will not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

But God proves His own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us!

We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God: those who are called according to His purpose.

Who can separate us from the love of Christ?Can affliction or anguish or persecutionor famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

height or depth, or any other created thingwill have the power to separate usfrom the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord!

Love must be without hypocrisy. Detest evil; cling to what is good.

Show family affection to one another with brotherly love. Outdo one another in showing honor.

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

The commandments:Do not commit adultery;do not murder;do not steal;do not covet;and whatever other commandment—all are summed up by this: Love your neighbor as yourself.

Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Love, therefore, is the fulfillment of the law.

For if your brother is hurt by what you eat, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy that one Christ died for by what you eat.

Now I appeal to you, brothers, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to join with me in fervent prayers to God on my behalf.

But as it is written:What eye did not see and ear did not hear,and what never entered the human mind—God prepared this for those who love Him.

What do you want? Should I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

About food offered to idols: We know that “we all have knowledge.” Knowledge inflates with pride, but love builds up.

If I speak human or angelic languagesbut do not have love,I am a sounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

If I have the gift of prophecyand understand all mysteriesand all knowledge,and if I have all faithso that I can move mountainsbut do not have love, I am nothing.

And if I donate all my goods to feed the poor,and if I give my body in order to boastbut do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind.Love does not envy,is not boastful, is not conceited,

Love never ends.But as for prophecies,they will come to an end;as for languages, they will cease;as for knowledge, it will come to an end.

Now these three remain:faith, hope, and love.But the greatest of these is love.

Pursue love and desire spiritual gifts, and above all that you may prophesy.

Your every action must be done with love.

If anyone does not love the Lord, a curse be on him. Marana tha that is, Lord, come!

My love be with all of you in Christ Jesus.

For I wrote to you with many tears out of an extremely troubled and anguished heart—not that you should be hurt, but that you should know the abundant love I have for you.

Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love to him.

For Christ’s love compels us, since we have reached this conclusion: If One died for all, then all died.

by purity, by knowledge,by patience, by kindness,by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love,

Now as you excel in everything—faith, speech, knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love for us—excel also in this grace.

I am not saying this as a command. Rather, by means of the diligence of others, I am testing the genuineness of your love.

Therefore, show them proof before the churches of your love and of our boasting about you.

Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows I do!

I will most gladly spend and be spent for you. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

Finally, brothers, rejoice. Become mature, be encouraged, be of the same mind, be at peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision accomplishes anything; what matters is faith working through love.

For you were called to be free, brothers; only don’t use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another through love.

For the entire law is fulfilled in one statement: Love your neighbor as yourself.

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

For He chose us in Him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in His sight. In love

This is why, since I 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 that He had for us,

and that the Messiah may dwell in your hearts through faith. I pray that you, being rooted and firmly established in love,

may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the length and width, height and depth of God’s love,

and to know the Messiah’s love that surpasses knowledge, so you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

with all humility and gentleness, with patience, accepting one another in love,

But speaking the truth in love, let us grow in every way into Him who is the head—Christ.

From Him the whole body, fitted and knit together by every supporting ligament, promotes the growth of the body for building up itself in love by the proper working of each individual part.

And walk in love, as the Messiah also loved us and gave Himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her

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

To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.

Peace to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Grace be with all who have undying love for our Lord Jesus Christ.

And I pray this: that your love will keep on growing in knowledge and every kind of discernment,

These do so out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel;

If then there is any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any affection and mercy,