Loving God

And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

• Love
• Heart

Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

We love him, because he first loved us.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

• Wisdom

But if any man love God, the same is known of him.

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

• Assurance

But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

If ye love me, keep my commandments.

• Character

Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

• Church

A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.

That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

• Tender
• Heart

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

• Incense
• Offerings
• Walking

And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.

But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said,} I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.

He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.

Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

• Jesus
• Obedience

Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.

• Money
• Brass
• Prayer

And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.