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.
John 4:16 |
What is Love? The scriptures tell us all that God is love. God is love and God loves us!
The Holy Bible says God is Love...Who is God? God is love. What is Love? God is Love.
God is love and the Holy Bible contains the word of God and everything that we ever need to know about love.
The Word of God, the Holy Bible, is the greatest love story ever told. Love is the theme of the Holy Bible.
There is no greater love anywhere than the love of God, than the love God has for each and every one of us, His creation.
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
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.
We love him, because he first loved us.
1 John 4:10,16,19 |
What is love? The word of God tells us that "Here's what love is, not that we loved God, but that He first loved us". God is love.
Not that we deserved God's love and not that God loves us because we love Him. No, God loved us first, before we loved Him. God loved us so much that He sent to us His only begotten Son, to this earth from Heaven, to save us all from sin and death, so that we all could spend eternity with 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.
John 3:16 |
We love God because He first loved us. We are able to love God because He loved us first.
What is love? Where does love come from? How are we to love God? How can we show our love toward our God? What does loving God really mean to you? How does God show us that He truly loves us? What kind of love is true? Does God love all sinners?
These questions, like all others, are answered by God in His word, so let's open our Bibles and begin...
God is love. The opposite of love is the opposite of God.
God loves you. No one is excluded from God's love.
We must love on purpose. You make the choice to love or hate.
We are to love God above everyone and everything. Loving anything above God is idolatry.
We are to love God with our whole heart, soul, spirit and mind, our complete being. This is the first and greatest commandment of all.
We are to love everyone. This is the second greatest commandment from God.
Love is not an option with God. We can only know God through His love, without love we cannot know God. (1 John 4:8)
The dictionary defines love as a strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties.
The Holy Bible says God is love.
Since God is love, we can know for a fact that to have fellowship with God we must have love.
Love is an essential key to knowing God.
Without love we cannot know God.
The word of God doesn't just say we must have love, but tells us that we are nothing without love.
We are nothing without love
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:2 |
Our life must be built on love. We must have a foundation of love, God's love.
Love must be intertwined into everything we do in our life.
If we are nothing without love, then we must understand what love is in order to build our life on love.
The word of God is very clear on what love is and gives us numerous examples of love.
Love endures all things
Love is:
- Patient
- Kind
- Does not envy
- Does not boast or brag
- Is not proud
- Is not rude
- Is not self-seeking
- Does not anger
- Does not keep a record of wrongs
- Does not delight in evil
- Rejoices in the truth
- Always protects
- Always trusts
- Always hopes
- Always perseveres
- Never fails
Charity suffereth long, and is kind;
charity envieth not;
charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Doth not behave itself unseemly,
seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked,
thinketh no evil;
Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
Beareth all things,
believeth all things,
hopeth all things,
endureth all things.
Charity never faileth...
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 |
If we were to stop at these scriptures, we understand what love is to God.
Since God is love, His word is full of scriptures teaching us what His love is all about.
The greatest example of love is the love God has for all people of the world.
The love God showed us when He gave us His one and only begotten Son, as sacrifice for the sins of the world. So everyone in the world could receive remission of sins and receive eternal life in Glory with Him.
God desires to take you, where He created you to be, which is with Him in His Kingdom for all eternity.
We cannot imagine giving our innocent child as a sacrifice, to be brutally and painfully tortured and then killed for a crime they did not commit, for the sins of someone else. But that is exactly what God did for all of us in the world. That sacrifice is the love of God and why the scriptures say, God is love.
There is no greater love than giving one's own life for another.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:13 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
1 John 3:16 |
Love is God sending His Son to remove our sins
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1 John 4:10 |
What is Love? The scriptures say Here is love, not because we love God, but because God loved us, and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice, the substitute, the ransom, the price, the propitiation for our sins.
"Not because we loved God", God is not love because we loved Him, or anything that we do for God. God loved us before we loved Him, which is love. The love of God is not dependent on us. Love was before we were created. God is love, love is of God, love is from God, love exists because of God, and God existed before all things.
Many of us would not think about loving someone who didn't love us back. We have conditional love. In spite of who we are, God loves us. Even though we are most vile and wretched creatures in the natural, God loves us. God loved us before we were, in spite of who we are.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:13 |
God showed us His love, true genuine love, by His sacrifice on the cross for our sins, God laid down His life (1 John 3:16; John 10:17), so that we could be reconciled to Him (Romans 5:10; 2 Corinthians 5:18; Colossians 1:21-22) and live in love with Him for all eternity (1 John 4:16; Ephesians 3:16-19).
GOD is love
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for GOD IS LOVE.
1 John 4:8 |
The scriptures tells us if we cannot love, we cannot know God. If we do not love everyone, we cannot know God.
If we love each other, we love God, and if we love God, that we are in God and God is in us.
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.
1 John 4:16 |
If we do not love each other, we are not of God.
If we do not love each other, God is not in us and we will not be with God. Why? Because God is love.
In this the children of God are manifest, the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
1 John 3:10 |
Are you a child of God, or a child of the devil?
God gives eternal life to those who love.
Death and separation from God waits for those who hate.
We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren.
He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
1 John 3:14 |
God said, that if I hate, I do not love Him
If we hate anyone, God said, we do not love God.
If I say that I love God, but hate, God calls me a liar.
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?
1 John 4:20 |
God's word in His scriptures is crystal clear, if we hate anyone, we cannot love God.
And if we do not love God, we will not see the kingdom of God and have eternal life in heaven.
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.
Luke 10:27 |
Love is of God
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
1 John 4:7 |
The second greatest commandment given to us by God is "Love one another".
Why is loving each other such a big deal with God? Because love is of God.
When we share love with each other, we share God with each other, because God is love. Love is the heart of God. Love is the language of God. Love is the will of God. Love is the law of God.
To know God is to love God. Everything about God is about His love, because God is love. To be in God is to be in God's love.
The scriptures don't say God likes love, or maybe we should love, but says that God is love and He teaches us to love one another.
To know God we must build our knowledge, our faith, our trust, our salvation in God and on His love.
As children of the Most High God our salvation is built on faith in Christ Jesus and rooted and grounded in love, by which we are able, gifted the privilege, to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge, and are filled with all the fullness of God (Ephesians 3:17-19).
Our salvation is the result of the love of God. Our salvation continues because of the love of God.
Nothing happens except by the love of God. Everything is because of the love of God.
Why should we love one another? Because God loves us and because we love God, we ought to love one another (1 John 4:11)
Love is NOT God
Do not be deceived, Love is NOT God. The Scriptures, God never says that love is God, but that God is love, there is a huge difference.
God is the Creator of all things, including love. God is self-existent. God was before all things, including love.
God is God, none else. Nothing but God is God. Love cannot be God, because that would place love equal to, or above God. Nothing is God but God.
There are other gods that men worship, but there is only One God, none else (Mark 12:32).
God is before and above all things. God is first, everything else follows God.
Love is a gift to us from God.
God is love. Love comes from God. God is the source of all true genuine love.
God is the source from which all love flows.
Love is because of God and without God there would not be any love.
Love is eternal
God is love and God is eternal, and therefore love is eternal.
There has never been a time where God did not exist. God has always been. God is love and love has existed with God before time began.
Love has always existed and will continue to exist throughout eternity. God has no beginning or end, neither does love. Love is not God, but God is love. Love cannot exist without God.
Without God there is no love. Those who choose to live without God in their lives here on earth, choose eternity without God also.
Choosing an eternity without God is choosing eternity without love, because God is love.
As human beings, we have never truly lived without love. Even those who choose now not to love, not to live in love, not to give love, and not to receive love, still have a choice to change and receive love before they die.
After we die, there is no choice (Psalm 6:5, 31:17; 88:5). The decisions we make while we are alive, here on this earth, determine our destiny for eternity.
We will either live with God and His love for eternity in the kingdom of Heaven, or be separated from God and without God and His love for all eternity. The choice is ours alone while we are alive here on earth.
I can't imagine what this world would be like without God's love, I can't imagine living eternity without the love of God, without giving love or receiving love for eternity. How horrible that would be!
Salvation, the gift of God, opens the door to the path to God and His eternal kingdom. Without accepting His free gift of salvation by grace through faith, no one will see Him.
Love is a gift from God
When we receive God's free gift of salvation, God gives us the spirit of love.
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power and of love, and of a sound mind.
2 Timothy 1:7 |
God gives His children:
- the spirit of power
- the spirit of love
- a sound mind
There is no fear in Love
Fear is not of God, fear is of the devil. God's love casts out fear.
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment.
He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
1 John 4:17 |
Salvation gives the children of God perfect love that casts out fear.
God's love is NOT the same as the world's love.
The world has a different view of love than God. The world has created its own love, with its own definition and with its own rules, which contradict the word of God, and that is complete opposite of God's love.
The world's love is a cheap counterfeit imitation of God's love.
The world says love is temporary. God's love is eternal.
The world says intimate love is with anyone you choose, anytime, anywhere. God says that intimate love is private and between one male husband and one female wife.
The world says love, even marital love, is disposable. God says what He has joined together, husband and wife in marriage, let no one destroy.
The world says multiple love partners is okay. God says that love is monogamous, between one woman and one man.
The world condones and promotes homosexuality as love. God says that homosexuality is not love and is an abomination to Him.
The world condones and promotes adultery as love. God says that adultery is sin against Him.
The world condones and promotes lust as love. God says lust is covetousness and is a sin against Him.
The world condones and promotes lust, saying it's okay to look. God says that if you lust after another it is adultery.
The world's love is selfish, self seeking. God's love is not selfish, seeks not its own way.
The world's love is conditional. God's love is unconditional. God loved us before we loved Him.
The world's love is limited. God's love is limitless.
The world thinks sex is love, perverting love. God says love is not sex.
The world's love takes. God's love gives.
The world mixes love with hate, creating destructive, unhealthy love/hate relationships. God's love excludes hate.
The world's love destroys. God's love builds.
The world's love is mean and rough. God's love is kind and gentle.
The world's love is prideful. God's love is humble.
The world's love controls with fear. God's love is perfect and casts out all fear.
The world's love is full of heartache, sadness, depression, darkness, hopelessness, anger, messiness, and confusion. God's love brings joy, laughter, happiness, light, comfort, hope, and peace.
The world's love is never satisfying, empty, meaningless and full of sorrow. God's love is complete, abundantly sufficient, satisfying, full of purpose and rejoicing.
The world's love ends. God's love is never ending, eternal.
The world's love is erotic, perverted, wicked, obscene, blasphemous, lustful, pleasure seeking, self gratifying, no matter what the cost. God's love is pure and genuine, never obscene, never blasphemous, never wicked, never perverted, always true, always thinking of other's well being first.
The world's love is questionable, faulty and doubtful. God's love is guaranteed, full of hope and assurance.
The world's love is broken. God's love is whole.
The world's love changes with the wind. God's love never changes.
The world's love will fail you, disappoint you, break you, and crush you. God's love will never fail you.
The world's love is based in lies, trickery and deceit. God's love is truth.
The world and the things of the world cannot give you true love, genuine love, because real love comes only from God Himself.
This is why so many people, who when they receive the salvation of God are so incredibly happy and peaceful, because they finally know what God is really about, because they have been filled with God's love, a love that passes all understanding, a love that they never knew before, could never imagine, because they had never experienced the love of God, genuine pure true love that comes only from God, God's love.
God's love is hard to explain to someone who is lost, because God's love passes all knowledge, all words, all understanding, and cannot be compared to anything ever experienced through anyone or anything in the world.
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1 John 4:10 |
There is no greater love, than one giving their life for another.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:13 |
This is exactly what God did for you. God gave His Son as a sacrifice for your sins, so that you could be reconciled to Him, so that you would not perish, but could receive everlasting life.
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.
John 3:16 |
God is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8), and so is His love for us the same yesterday, today and forever.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
James 1:17 |
We change everyday, we grow in grace and truth, in faith, but with God there is no variableness, no shadow of turning. The Word of God is living and eternal. The love God has toward us today is the same love God will have for us throughout eternity. The difference is, that we change, and when we see God our vision will be changed and we will behold all of His love. The scriptures explain it as if we are looking through a glass darkly, we know God loves us and we can see God's love, but when we are finally with Him we will see clearly (1 Corinthians 13:12).
The love of God never changes because God does not change, but we change and we will be changed when we see Him face to face.
God does not change and God's love does not change. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8). God's love is shown to us the same way He has shown it throughout history.
God shows us His love for us today by giving us His salvation and hope of eternal life through Christ Jesus (Romans 6:23; Ephesians 2:8-9; 4:7). God shows us His love for us today by giving us His gift of faith and His gift of grace, to accept the gift of Christ (Ephesians 4:7).
God shows us His love through His Spirit with love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and temperance (Galatians 5:22-23).
There are as many reasons why God loves us as there are individual people. We were created to receive the great love of God.
God loves each and every human being that He has created, from the beginning of time with Adam and Eve, to today with you and me.
We do not deserve the love of God, but we are gifted God's love anyway.
It is impossible to fully comprehend the love of God. God loved us before we were. God loves us in spite of ourselves (Ephesians 2:4-6).
Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
2 Thessalonians 2:16 |
The love of God for His children is from everlasting to everlasting.
Everlasting to Everlasting is the Lord’s love
God's love for us is everlasting, eternal, forever, infinite.
But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children;
Psalm 103:17-18 The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn thee.
Jeremiah 31:3 |
We are to love our Lord God with all that is within us (Psalm 103:1).
We are to love the LORD our God with:
- All our heart
- All our soul
- All our might
- All our mind
- All our strength
And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
Deuteronomy 6:5 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.
Matthew 22:37 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.
Mark 12:30 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.
Luke 10:27 |
First and above all, we are to love our Lord God with all our heart.
Second, we are to love everybody else, including ourselves.
Love the LORD
Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God.
Joseph 23:11 |
We are to love the LORD our God with:
- All our heart
- All our soul
- All our might
- All our mind
- All our strength
And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
Deuteronomy 6:5 Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, always.
Deuteronomy 11:1 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.
Matthew 22:37 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.
Mark 12:30 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.
Luke 10:27 |
Love and Keep the Lord's commandments
Because we love our Lord God, we will:
- Keep his charge
- Keep his statutes
- Keep his judgments
- Keep his commandments
ALWAYS.
Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, always.
Deuteronomy 11:1 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.
John 14:23 |
The word of God tells us if we love God, that we will keep His word.
I think sometimes we forget what a privilege and a great honor it is to be called the children of God. How wonderful and patient is our Lord God Almighty! He who is the Most High above all things, and who waits on us every day to find time to speak with Him and be with Him.
As the children of God, we diligently seek to know God better, and to love Him better every day. It is a privilege and an honor to keep His word. How thankful I am to serve the Most High One True God! Praise the Father God Almighty and the Lord Jesus Christ forever! Halleluiah!!
Love and Serve the Lord
Because we love the Lord, the children of God serve Him with:
- All our heart and
- All our soul.
And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all you soul,
Deuteronomy 11:13 But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Joshua 22:5 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
1 John 3:18 |
Love and walk in His ways
Because we love the Lord God, we will walk in all His ways.
For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;
Deuteronomy 11:22 In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
Deuteronomy 30:16 But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all you soul.
Joseph 22:5 Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
Psalm 97:10 And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
Mark 12:33 |
Love the Lord and obey His voice
Because we love the Lord God, the children of God obey Him always.
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.
Deuteronomy 30:20 |
Because we love God, we will keep ourselves in His love.
Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
Jude 1:21 |
Love GOD
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.
Romans 8:28 But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
1 Corinthians 8:3 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?
1 John 4:20 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
1 John 5:2 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
1 John 4:21 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.
John 14:21 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
1 John 4:7 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.
1 John 5:1 |
Believe Jesus is the Christ and is born of God and everyone that loves God, love also the Son.
Love God the Father
But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.
John 14:31 |
Love Him
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;
Deuteronomy 7:9 And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
Deuteronomy 10:12 The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.
Psalm 145:20 And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
Mark 12:33 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.
John 14:21 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.
John 14:23 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
1 Corinthians 2:9 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord that promised to them that love him.
James 1:12 Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
James 2:5 We love him, because he first loved us.
1 John 4:19 |
Too many people believe that they can love God without obeying God, but this is not what God says. God says, if a man loves me, he will keep my words. Obedience to God is the result of true salvation, true love of God. Obedience to God is loving God.
Love Everybody
Because we love the Lord our God, we can love one another.
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
1 John 4:7 Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
1 Peter 2:17 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
1 John 2:10 He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even unto now.
1 John 2:9 |
Loving one another is not an option with God. God says one proof of our salvation is that we love one another. Only with God can we love like God loves, which is unconditionally. Only through the love of God can we love our enemies. With God, through Christ Jesus we can do what may seem impossible to nonbelievers, we can love one another, no matter what.
Because we love God, we can love everybody
And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
1 John 4:21 |
Love your neighbor as yourself
Because we love the Lord, the children of God love our neighbor as ourselves.
Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am the LORD.
Leviticus 19:18 Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Matthew 19:19 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Matthew 22:39 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
Mark 12:31 And to love him with all the hear, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
Mark 12:33 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.
Luke 10:27 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Romans 13:9 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Galatians 5:14 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
James 2:8 |
Love your Enemies
Because we love God, we can love our enemies with the love of God.
Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. 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;
Matthew 5:43-44 |
We are not only to love our enemies, but we are also to bless them, do good to them and pray for them. True love is not with just words, but through our actions we demonstrate the love of God through us to other people, even those who are our enemies, who curse us and hate us, who despitefully use us and persecute us.
But I say unto you which hear, love your enemies, do good to them which hate you,
Luke 6:27 But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
Luke 6:35 |
Love strangers
Because we love God, the children of God loves the strangers.
But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 19:34 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 10:19 |
Love the righteous
The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the Lord raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:
Psalm 146:8 |
Love one another
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
John 13:34 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye love one to another.
John 13:35 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
John 15:12 These things I command you, that ye love one another.
John 15:17 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
Romans 13:8 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
1 Thessalonians 4:9 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
1 Peter 1:22 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
1 John 3:11 And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
1 John 3:23 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
1 John 4:7 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
1 John 4:11 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
1 John 4:12 And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we have from the beginning, that we love one another.
2 John 1:5 And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
1 Thessalonians 3:12 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
1 Thessalonians 4:9 |
Husbands love your wives
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Ephesians 5:25 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Ephesians 5:28 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Ephesians 5:33 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Colossians 3:19 |
Women love your husbands and children
That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
Titus 2:4 |
Can anything void, cancel out our love for God? What destroys love? What stops us from loving God?
Sin separates anyone from God. Unbelief separates anyone from God for eternity.
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.
1 John 2:15 |
Love others as we love ourselves
Let love be without false appearance, detest evil and hold on to good. Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another;
Romans 12:9,10 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:13 No height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:39 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
2 Thessalonians 3:5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
1 John 2:5 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
1 John 3:16 But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
1 John 3:17 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that might live through him.
1 John 4:9 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
1 John 5:3 |
With a pure heart fervently
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
1 Peter 1:22 |
Love with faith
Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 6:23 |
Love with the same love
Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
Philippians 2:2 |
Love as brethren
Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
1 Peter 3:8 |
Love in deed and in truth, not just in words
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
1 John 3:18 |
It's easy to say we love, we need to show we love.
Speak the truth in love
But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is head, even Christ:
Ephesians 4:15 |
Walk in love
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.
Ephesians 5:2 |
God loves us with an everlasting love. The love of God cannot be measured, His love is endless. God loves us more than we will ever know on this earth.
Praise the Lord God, that He doesn't love like we do!!
As human beings we generally have selfish, conditional love, "I'll love you as long as you love me", or "I'll love you as long as you meet my certain needs". Genuine love does not seek to get, it seeks to give.
God's love is pure and unconditional. We were never worthy of God's love, we didn't deserve God's love. There is nothing in this world that we could give God in exchange for His love. Because of God's mercy and grace, He gave us His love anyway, in spite of who we were.
To understand God's love for us, we must understand who God is, and who we are. God is God, we are not. God is Holy, we are not. God is sinless, we are not. God is pure, we are not. God is love, we are not. Sin cannot be in the presence of God.
God love us and wants to give us all things. God wants us to spend our eternity with Him in His Kingdom. God wants to give us His Kingdom. God cannot be with us because we are sinners. Through our mortal birth, we are born into sin, we are sinners. Because we are sinners, we cannot be in the presence of God. This sin problem did not stop God. God had a plan, so that through His plan we can live forever with Him in His Kingdom of Heaven.
God wants all His creation to be with Him for eternity. God wants all the people of this world to spend eternity with Him in Paradise.
God needed a way for all the people, you and me, to be cleansed from sin. Sin had to be completely removed from us, so that we could live with God in His Kingdom for eternity. A sacrifice was needed, a holy, just, sinless sacrifice was required for remission of all the sins of all the people of all the world.
There was only one who was a worthy sacrifice, there was only one who was just and holy, there was only one who would save the world from sin and death, the only Holy One, sinless, sacrifice was God. There is only one Saviour. God is One God. One God washes away sins, God alone redeems, God alone justifies, God alone sanctifies, God alone can reconcile us with Him. Therefore God manifest Himself in the flesh as the Son of man, conceived by the Holy Ghost in the womb of a virgin, born into the world like we are, born in the flesh like man, in the image of man, lived as man in the world among people. This Son of man is Jesus Christ the only begotten Son of God, came out from God Himself, fully man and fully God. (1 Timothy 3:16; Matthew 1:20; John 16:27)
The miracle of Jesus Christ, gifted to humanity, is how God showed us His love from the very beginning of time.
God's love for us is undeniable. God gave Himself as sacrifice for sins. God gave His life as Jesus Christ so that we might live, that we could receive eternal life and inherit all things from Him.
What is love? There is no greater love, than to lay down your life for another. This is what God did for us all, so that we shall not perish, but have everlasting life.
Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
1 John 3:16 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 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. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
John 3:15-17 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:13 |
With an everlasting love
The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love:
therefore with loving kindness have I drawn thee.
Jeremiah 31:3 |
God loves us with unconditional, never ending, everlasting love.
God love us as He loves Jesus
I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
John 17:23 |
Love of God
Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
1 John 3:16 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
2 Thessalonians 3:5 |
We are to keep ourselves in God's love
Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
Jude 1:21 |
God loves us because we love His Son, Jesus
For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
John 16:27 But God commandeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:8 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
2 Thessalonians 2:16 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
1 John 4:9 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1 John 4:10 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
1 John 4:11 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
John 17:26 |
Know the love of Christ
And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with the fullness of God.
Ephesians 3:19 |
We are to keep ourselves in the love of God, but exactly how do we do this?
Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
Jude 1:21 |
Keep the word of God
But whoso keepeth His word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in Him.
1 John 2:5 |
By studying and keeping the word of God inside us, doing what God says, living in the will of God, the love of God is perfected in us.
Keep all God's commandments
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
1 John 5:3 |
Through the Holy Ghost
And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
Romans 5:5 And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him.
And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
1 John 3:24 |
Because we keep God's commandments
Those who keep His commandments dwell in Him and He in them.
Believers keep God's commandments because of salvation, not to gain salvation. We cannot earn salvation through anything that we do, salvation is the gift of God. By the grace of God we are saved through faith in God alone, not by our works.
Obeying God's commandments, obeying the word of God is the product of salvation, produced from true salvation.
And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him.
And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
1 John 3:23-24 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.
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
1 John 5:1-3 |
Because we love God and keep His commandments, we know that we know Him. We have assurance of our salvation because we love God and keep His word.
And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
1 John 2:3-5 |
Living in the will of God, keeping His word, doing what God says we are to do, living the way God says we are to live, we can know that we are in Him and the love of God is perfected.
Without love, we are nothing
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and thou I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:2 |
Without love, we are not of God
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
1 John 3:10 |
Without love, no one can know God
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
1 John 4:8 |
Those who hate will not receive eternal life
We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren.
He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
1 John 3:14 But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
1 John 3:17 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
1 John 3:15 |
A liar is those who say they love God, but hate
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?
1 John 4:20 |
Without love, we are in darkness
He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.
1 John 2:9 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
1 John 2:11 |
A murderer is one who hates anyone
Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
1 John 3:15 |
Those who hate Jesus, hate God the Father
He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
John 15:23 |
If we love God the Father, we cannot hate God the Son.
Those who hate Jesus, God the Son, hate God the Father also.
We know through Scripture, that we are to love the Lord God above all else, but what other things are we are to love.
Love Salvation
Let my LORD God be magnified, because I love His salvation!
Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
Psalm 40:16 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.
Psalm 70:4 |
Love Righteousness
God is righteousness, therefore the children of God love righteousness.
Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Psalm 45:7 |
People who do NOT follow righteousness are not OF God, but are the children of the devil.
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
1 John 3:10 |
Love God’s Commandments and Laws
And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
Psalm 119:47 My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.
Psalm 119:48 MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
Psalm 119:97 SAMECH. I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.
Psalm 119:113 Thou puttest always all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.
Psalm 119:119 Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
Psalm 119:127 Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy loving kindness.
Psalm 119:159 I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.
Psalm 119:163 Great peace have thy which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.
Psalm 119:165 My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.
Psalm 119:167 |
Love the Name of the Lord
Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;
Isaiah 56:6 But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.
Psalm 5:11 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
Psalm 8:9 |
Love the Word of God
Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.
Psalm 119:140 |
Love knowledge and instruction
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Proverbs 1:22 Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
Proverbs 12:1 |
Many people choose to twist the word of God to align with their false teachings. Do not be deceived. Know the truth of God, know God's Word for yourself, bury His Word and truth deep within your heart, and you will not be deceived, you will know what is God's truth.
If God is love, then is love God, could we say love is God? No, we cannot say love is God because love is NOT God.
The Holy Scriptures never ever state that love is God. Nothing, no one is God except God. Things, even love is not God.
What the Scriptures do state is that love is of God. Many things are of God. There is One God, and no one besides Him.
Being of God is not being God. No one is God, except God. Nothing is God, except God. There is no one or nothing besides God who is God.
When we receive the salvation of God, we are of God, but we are never God. Man is NOT God. Love is not God.
We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us.
Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1 John 4:6-10 |
God is love, but love is NOT God.
Many people try and bring God down to their level, redefining God to fit in their doctrine, try and put Him in their terms, so they can sell something, or sell their false doctrine. Do not be deceived by these people. Know God yourself, know the words of God yourself and you will not be deceived by false doctrine.
God loves the world
For God so loved the world, that he gave is only begotten Son, that whosoever shall believe on him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
John 3:16 We love him, because he first loved us.
1 John 4:19 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1 John 4:10 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
1 John 4:11 |
Believers of Jesus Christ
For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
John 16:27 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.
Galatians 2:20 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
2 Thessalonians 2:16 And from Jesus Christ, who is faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
Revelation 1:5 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
Ephesians 2:4 |
God loves all who love Him
But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
1 Corinthians 8:3 I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
Proverbs 8:17 That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.
Proverbs 8:21 |
God knows all people who love Him.
Beloved, let us love on another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
1 John 4:7 |
All who dwell in love
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.
1 John 4:16 |
God the Father loves all who love His Son
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 with manifest myself to him.
John 14:21 |
God loves all people who keep His commandments
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.
John 15:10 |
All who keep the word of God
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.
John 14:23 |
God loves a cheerful giver
Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
2 Corinthians 9:7 |
God loves His Son, Jesus
God the Father loves Jesus, His only begotten Son.
And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Matthew 3:17 Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall show judgment to the Gentiles.
Matthew 12:18 While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.
Matthew 17:5 And there cam a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Mark 1:11 And there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice cam out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.
Mark 9:7 And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.
Luke 3:22 And there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.
Luke 9:35 For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
2 Peter 1:17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
John 10:17 I in them, and thou in me, that thy may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
John 17:23 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
John 17:26 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
John 17:24 |
All who love Jesus and believe
For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
John 16:27 |
We can show God how much we love Him through our obedience to Him, by trusting in Him, by praying to Him, by worshiping Him, by studying, keeping and doing His word, by living our lives to Him in love, by praising His holy name, by telling others about Him, by loving Him and loving others.
Love and worship ONLY GOD
Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
Matthew 4:10 |
Studying, keeping, and doing His word
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.
John 14:23 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.
Deuteronomy 29:9 |
Love God by keeping his commandments
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
John 14:15 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 with manifest myself to him.
John 14:21 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.
John 15:10 And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Exodus 20:6 And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
Deuteronomy 5:10 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
1 John 5:2 |
Love each other
And this commandment he we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
1 John 4:21 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?
1 John 4:20 |
Walk in love
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.
Ephesians 5:2 |
Follow after righteousness
The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.
Proverbs 15:9 |
We know God loves us, but what else does God love?
God loves righteousness
For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.
Psalm 11:7 He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.
Psalm 33:5 The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:
Psalm 146:8 |
God loves judgment
For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
Psalm 37:28 He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.
Psalm 33:5 |
The reasons to love God are infinite. Everything we are and hope to be is because God chose to love us, to love me, to love you. We can do nothing without God. We can do nothing to please God without love.
Because He first loved us
We love him, because he first loved us.
1 John 4:19 |
God loved us before we were given life by Him. The scriptures tell us that God loved us when we were inside our mother's womb.
The Scriptures tell us that we love God, because He first loved us. We are unable to do anything without God, even love Him. Because He loved us first, we are able to love Him. This fact of Scripture is very humbling.
To keep God's covenant and mercy
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;
Deuteronomy 7:9 |
To receive God's blessings
And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thin kin, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
Deuteronomy 7:13 And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thine heart and with all thy should,
Deuteronomy 10:12 O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
Psalm 31:23 |
God hears our voice and prayers
I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.
Psalm 116:1 |
Everyday, we should think our Creator, our God for hearing all our prayers.
Prosperity
Pray for peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
Psalm 122:6 |
Prosperity is beyond material things or money. True prosperity is connected to the things of God. We must learn what God holds dear, we must seek out what are true treasures and put our time, our prayers, our trust and devotion to the things of God, not the things of this earth, because the prosperity of God, the treasures of God are in Heaven, not on this temporary planet.
We are to love the things that God loves. We must never forget that the connection between Jerusalem and God are eternal. We are to pray for peace of Jerusalem.
God loves those that love him
But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
1 Corinthians 8:3 |
God knows all who truly love Him, and God knows who doesn't. It doesn't matter who says they do on the outside, God sees in our hearts and He knows who loves Him completely.
God lives in those that love him
No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
1 John 4:12 |
To fulfill God’s law
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
Romans 13:8 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Romans 13:10 |
It is the first and great commandment
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.
This is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Matthew 22:37-39 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.
Mark 12:30 |
The blessings of God are to those who love.
Know God
Without loving others we cannot know God.
God's plan is for everyone he created is to love one another.
God wants us all to be part of His great loving family.
God's will for everyone is to love Him and love each other and be loved by Him. God's will is for everyone to love.
And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
1 John 2:3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD you God with all your heart and with all you soul.
Deuteronomy 13:3 |
He hears the prayers
I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.
Psalm 116:1 |
Inherit substance and filled treasures
That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.
Proverbs 8:21 |
God will abide with us
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.
John 14:23 |
God will dwell in us
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.
1 John 4:16 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
1 John 4:12 |
God promises His Love
I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
Proverbs 8:17 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.
John 14:2 But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
1 Corinthians 8:3 |
God promises Deliverance
Because he that set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
Psalm 91:14 Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
Psalm 97:10 |
Peace
Great peace have thy which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.
Psalm 119:165 |
Life
The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.
Psalm 145:20 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
Deuteronomy 30:6 In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, and thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
Deuteronomy 30:16 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.
Deuteronomy 30:20 O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
Psalm 31:23 Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
Psalm 97:10 |
Correction
For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
Proverbs 3:12 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth ever son whom he receiveth.
Hebrews 12:6 |
Good things
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.
Romans 8:28 |
Prepared wonderful, unimaginable things.
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
1 Corinthians 2:9 |
Crown of Life
Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
2 Timothy 4:8 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
James 1:12 |
Heirs of the kingdom of God
Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
James 2:5 |
Boldness in the day of judgment
Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
1 John 4:17 |
Believers will be hated by the world
And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
Matthew 10:22 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.
Matthew 24:9 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
Mark 13:13 Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
Luke 6:22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake.
Luke 21:17 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
John 15:18 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
John 15:19 I have given them my word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
John 17:14 Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
1 John 3:13 |
Why would anyone want to be hated by the world?
Being hated by the world does not matter to those of us who believe in Christ and who love God, and who are loved by God.
Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
1 John 4:4 |
The love of Jesus surpasses anything that the world has to offer.
Like Jesus when he was dying on the cross, we as believers know what comes after this world and this life in the flesh, is just temporary. And absolutely nothing on this earth can compare to the joy that is waiting for us.
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 12:2 |
Jesus suffered and died on the cross - for the joy that He knew was to come after the cross. Because of the will of God and because of the promise from God.
Jesus knew His future and as believers we know our future is eternal life with God in everlasting paradise, in the kingdom of God.
God's love gives us eternal life
Without God's gracious love, love so abundant that He would give His only begotten Son as a sacrifice for the sins of the world, we would not be able to receive salvation and receive eternal, everlasting life.
For God so loved the world, that he gave is only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
John 3:16 |
Love covereth all sins
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
Proverbs 10:12 |
Perfect Love casts out fear
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment.
He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
1 John 4:18 |
Love not the world
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.
1 John 2:15 |
Hate lying
I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.
Psalm 119:163 |
Every false way
Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
Psalm 119:104 Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
Psalm 119:128 |
Evil thoughts
And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.
Zechariah 8:17 |
Vain thoughts
SAMECH. I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.
Psalm 119:113 |
What is vanity? The best explanation of vanity can be found in the book of Ecclesiastes.
Hate evil
Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
Psalm 97:10 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
Proverbs 8:13 Let love be with dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
Romans 12:9 |
Hate iniquity
Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Hebrews 1:9 |
Nothing can separate us from the love of God.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:35-39 |
The world doesn't love God
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
John 15:18 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.
1 John 3:1 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
John 15:25 |
Everyone that does evil
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
John 3:20 |
Anyone who hates Jesus, the Son of God
He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
John 15:23 |
Anyone who hates anyone
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?
1 John 4:20 |
You may say, that it is impossible to love everyone.
You may say, that there are some people you just cannot love.
You may say, there is no one who can love everybody.
But God says you can. God says you are to love everybody.
God says you can love everybody.
Yes, even your enemies and even those who have hurt you terribly.
For with God nothing shall be impossible.
Luke 1:37 |
How can we love everyone? The only way we can love everybody is through God, through Christ.
By being saved we become children of God, and therefore we are able to love everybody through the grace of Jesus Christ.
Love everyone through Christ
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
May be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
Ephesians 3:17-19 |
We don't have to understand how we can love everyone, we just need to love everyone, as God commands.
As believers, we have the love of Christ in us, which passes all knowledge, and we are filled with all the fulness of God.
God is love, we are filled with all the fulness of God, we are filled with love.
With God we can do anything, and yes, we can love everybody.
Yes, I love God and I love everybody!!
We are to continue in love. We are to love always.
Never stop loving.
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
John 15:9 |
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