Bible on Love

But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints,

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;

If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:

And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.

How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.

My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.

Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.

For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.

Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.

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

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.

For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.

And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.

And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

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

Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.

And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.

But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:

Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

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

And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most?

It seemed good unto us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the father’s sakes.

All my state shall Tychicus declare unto you, who is a beloved brother, and a faithful minister and fellowservant in the Lord:

Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:

Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:

This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:

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

And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.

And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.

His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son!

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen. The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Philippians

Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.

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

And there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.

And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall make known unto you all things which are done here.

And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:

And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

Yet for love’s sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.