Bible Verses About Love

It is our sincere desire that as you read these inspirational bible verses, you would be uplifted and your love for our Lord Jesus Christ would be deepened. Love The Lord With All Your Heart On one occasion Jesus was asked what commandment was the most important. Jesus answered, The first and principal one of all commands is: Hear, O Israel The Lord our God is one Lord; And you shall love the Lord your God out of and with all your soul (your Life) and out of and with all your mind (your faculty of thought and your moral understanding) and out of and with all your strength. This is the first and principal commandment. The second is like it and is this, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these. (Mark 12:29-31) Amplified Bible. These are the two most important commandments because if you truly love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, you will want to do what pleases him. In the same way, if you really love others as much as you love yourself, you will be concerned for their welfare and will treat them accordingly. Before you can effectively love God, however, you must first realize how much he loves you. Scripture explains that God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners who had no relationship with him.(Click here to read Romans 5:8). The more we realize this wonderful truth, the more our love for God will grow. The Bible correctly recognizes that our love for God comes as a result of his loving us first. (Click here to read 1 John 4:19). These Scripture passages explore some different facets of the love we should have for God and others. 1. God Should Be the Greatest Love of Our Life. Before we can fully love one another, however, we must fully love God and understand his love for us (click here to read Matthew 22:37-38). 2. Christ's Love Sets the Standard. Our love for others should model Christ's love for us (Click here to read Ephesians 5:1-2). 3. Love Surpasses All Spiritual Gifts. A Christian who understands what love truly means and shows love in his or her life is the greatest testimony to others (Click here to read 1 Corinthians 13:1-13). 4. Our Love For God Prepares Us for Service. The depth of our love for God directly affects our ability to minister to others (Click here to read John 21:15-17). 5. Our Love for Others Mirrors the Condition of Our Heart. The love we have for those around us is an indication of the strength of our Christian walk (click here to read 1 John 2:9-11). 6. Our Love Should Grow. The closer we grow to God, the more our love for others should increase (click here to read 1 Thessalonians 3:12-13).

Bible Verses About Love

Romans 5:8. But God shows and clearly proves His [own] love for us by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ (the Messiah, the Annointed One) died for us. Back to message. Amplified Bible 1 John 4:19. We love Him, because He first loved us. Back to message. Amplified Bible Matthew 22:37. And he replied to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind [intellect], Matthew 22:38. This is the great (most important, principal) and first commandment. Back to message. Amplified Bible Ephesians 5:1. Therefore be imitators of God [copy Him and follow his example}, as well-beloved children [imitate their father]. Ephesians 5:2. And walk in love, [esteeming and delighting in one another] as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us, a slain offering and sacrifice to God [for you, so that it became] a sweet fragrance. Back to message. Amplified Bible 1 Corinthians 13:1. If I [can] speak in the tongues of men and [even of angels, but have not love (that reasoning, intentional, spiritual devotion such as is inspired by God's love for and in us), I am only a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 1 Corinthians 13:2. And if I have prophetic powers (the gift of interpreting the divine will and purpose), and understand all the secret truths and mysteries and possess all knowledge, and if I have [sufficent] faith so that I can remove mountians, but have not love (God's love in me) I am nothing (a useless nobody). 1 Corinthians 13:3. Even if I dole out all that I have [to the poor in providing] food, and if I surrender my body to be burned or in order that I may glory, but have not love (God's love in me), I gain nothing. 1 Corinthians 13:4. Love endures long and is patient and kind; love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily. 1 Corinthians 13:5. It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); it is not rude (unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly. Love (God's love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong]. 1 Corinthians 13:6. It does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoices when right and truth prevail. 1 Corinthians 13:7. Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening]. 1 Corinthians 13:8. Love never fails [never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end]. As for prophecy (the gift of interpreting the divine will and purpose), it will be fulfilled and pass away; as for tongues, they will be destroyed and cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away [it will lose its value and be superceded with truth]. 1 Corinthians 13:9. For our knowledge is fragmentary (incomplete and imperfect), and our prophecy (our teaching) is fragmentary (incomplete and imperfect). 1 Corinthians 13:10. But when the complete and perfect (total) comes, the incomplete and imperfect will vanish away (become antiquated, void, and superceded). 1 Corinthians 13:11. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; now that I have become a man, I am done with childish ways and have put them aside. 1 Corinthians 13:12. For now we are looking in a mirror that gives only a dim (blurred) reflection [of reality as in a riddle or enigma], but then [when perfection comes] we shall see in reality and face to face! Now I know in part (imperfectly), but then I shall know and understand fully and clearly, even in the same manner as I have been fully and clearly known and understood [by God]. 1 Corinthians 13:13. And so faith, hope, love abide [faith-conviction and belief respecting man's relation to God and divine things; hope-joyful and confident expectation of eternal salvation; love-true affection for God and man, growing out of God's love for and in us] these three; but the greatest of these is love. Back to message. Amplified Bible John 21:15. When they had eaten, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these [others do-with reasoning, intentional, spiritual devotion, as one loves the Father]? He said to Him, Yes Lord, You know that I love you [that I have deep, instintive, personal affection for You, as for a close friend]. He said to him, Feed My Lambs, John 21:16. Again He said to him the second time, Simon son of God, do you love Me [with reasoning, intentional, spiritual devotion, as one loves the Father]? He said to Him, Yes Lord, You know that I love you [that I have deep, instintive, personal affection for You, as for a close friend]. He said to him, Shepard (tend) My Sheep. John 21:17. He said to him the third time, Simon, son of John, do you love Me [with a deep, instinctive, personal affection for Me, as for a close freind]? Peter was grieved (was saddened and hurt) that He should ask him the third time. Do you love Me? And he said to Him, Lord, You know everything; You know that I love You [that I have a deep, instinctive, personal affection for You, as for a close friend].Jesus said to Him, Feed My Sheep. Back to message. Amplified Bible 1 John 2:9. Whoever says he is in the Light and [yet] hates his brother {Christian, born again child of God his Father] is in darkness even until now. 1 John 2:10. Whoever loves his brother [believer] abides (lives) in the Light, and in It or in him there is no occasion for stumbling or cause for error or sin. 1 John 2:11. But he who hates (detests, despises) his brother [in Christ] is in darkness and walking (living) in the dark; he is straying and does not percieve or know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes. Back to message. Amplified Bible 1 Thessalonians 3:12. And may the Lord make you to increase and excel and overflow in love for one another and for all people, just as we also do for you. 1 Thessalonians 3:13. So that He may strengthen and establish your hearts faultlessly pure and unblamable in holiness in the sight of our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) with all His saints (the holy and glorified people of God)! Amen, (so be it)! Back to message. Amplified Bible While we look forward to the glories of heaven, one thing far outweighs them all: the fact that we will be able to spend eternity with Jesus. Dwight L. Moody once wrote, "It is not the jeweled walls and the pearly gates that are going to make heaven attractive. It is being with God." May that truth inspire you as you live out your life on this earth. Click any link below for more Inspirational Bible Verses!! Who is Jesus? God is Personal Why Would a Good God Send Anyone to Hell? Our Needs Must Come Last Pray Without Hinderance God is Loving and Just.

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