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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 |
Love Shared
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
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Take good heed therefore
unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God.
Joshua 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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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 your 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
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Love and walk in His ways
Because we love the Lord God, we will walk in all His
ways.
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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 your 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
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Love the Lord and obey His voice
Because we love the Lord God, the children of God obey Him
always.
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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.
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Keep yourselves in the love of God,
looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
Jude 1:21 |
Love GOD
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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
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Believe Jesus is the Christ and is born of God and everyone
that loves God, love also the Son.
Love God the Father
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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
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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
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Too many people believe that they can love God without them 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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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 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
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.
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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.
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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 strangers.
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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
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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
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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
have 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
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Husbands love your wives
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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
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Women love your husbands and children
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That they may teach the young women to be sober,
to love
their husbands, to love their children,
Titus 2:4 |
Love others as we love ourselves
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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 we 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
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With a pure heart fervently
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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
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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
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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
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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
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My little children, let us not love in word, neither in
tongue; but in deed and in truth.
1 John 3:18 |
It is easy to say we love, we need to show we love.
Speak the truth in love
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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
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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 |
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.
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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
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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.
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As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you:
continue
ye in my love.
John 15:9 |
Jesus says, "Continue ye in My love".
Oh how I love GOD's Word !! Love it, learn it, live it.
These are key Scriptures on God's love.
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Love it
Learn it
Live it |
1 John 4:19 - We love him, because he first loved us.
1 John 4:16
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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 4:8 - He that loveth not knoweth not God;
for
GOD IS LOVE.
1 John 4:10 -
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 4:7 - 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 3:14 - We know that we have passed from death
unto life,
because we love the brethren.
He that loveth not his brother abideth
in death.
John 3:16 - 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.
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We are to love
God's words; we are to learn God's words; and, we are to live God's words.
When in doubt do without. If you cannot
find a fact in scripture then do not state it as fact. There
is no scripture in God's Word that ever places anything equal to God, but God,
including love. Love is not God.
Do not follow the doctrine of man, follow God, follow God's
Word, follow God's truth and you will follow God's will.
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