Love Verses in the Bible - 1 Samuel

Love is the foremost trait in all of Scripture. Because of Love, God sent His Son Jesus Christ to redeem us from the penalty of our sin through His sacrifice and victory at the cross.  Jesus Christ identified the most important commandments in all of Scripture to be: Love God, Love your neighbor.  Just before His crucifixion, Jesus said: "A new command I give you: Love one another.  As I have loved you, so you must love one another."  Without God, this is simply impossible because "God is Love."

As C.S. Lewis wrote, "In God, there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give."

Love

• 1 Samuel 18:20
• "Now Saul's daughter Michal was in love with David, and when they told Saul about it, he was pleased."
• 1 Samuel 20:17
• "And Jonathan had David reaffirm his oath out of love for him, because he loved him as he loved himself."

Loved

• 1 Samuel 1:5
• "But to Hannah he gave a double portion because he loved her, and the Lord had closed her womb."
• 1 Samuel 18:1
• "After David had finished talking with Saul, Jonathan became one in spirit with David, and he loved him as himself."
• 1 Samuel 18:3
• "And Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself."
• 1 Samuel 18:16
• "But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he led them in their campaigns."
• 1 Samuel 18:28
• "When Saul realized that the Lord was with David and that his daughter Michal loved David."
• 1 Samuel 20:17
• "And Jonathan had David reaffirm his oath out of love for him, because he loved him as he loved himself."

Love Verses in the Bible - Ruth

Love is the foremost trait in all of Scripture. Because of Love, God sent His Son Jesus Christ to redeem us from the penalty of our sin through His sacrifice and victory at the cross.  Jesus Christ identified the most important commandments in all of Scripture to be: Love God, Love your neighbor.  Just before His crucifixion, Jesus said: "A new command I give you: Love one another.  As I have loved you, so you must love one another."  Without God, this is simply impossible because "God is Love."

As C.S. Lewis wrote, "In God, there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give."

Loves

• Ruth 4:15
• "He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age.  For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and who is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth."

Love Verses in the Bible - Judges

Love is the foremost trait in all of Scripture. Because of Love, God sent His Son Jesus Christ to redeem us from the penalty of our sin through His sacrifice and victory at the cross.  Jesus Christ identified the most important commandments in all of Scripture to be: Love God, Love your neighbor.  Just before His crucifixion, Jesus said: "A new command I give you: Love one another.  As I have loved you, so you must love one another."  Without God, this is simply impossible because "God is Love."

As C.S. Lewis wrote, "In God, there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give."

Love

• Judges 5:31
• "'So may all your enemies perish, O Lord!  But may they who love you be like the sun when it rises in its strengh.'  Then the land had peace forty years."
• Judges 14:16
• "Then Samson's wife threw herself on him, sobbing, 'You hate me!  You don't really love me.  You've given my people a riddle, but you haven't told me the answer.'  'I haven't even explained it to my father or mother,' he replied, 'so why should I explain it to you?'"
• Judges 16:4
• "Some time later, he fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek whose name was Delilah."
• Judges 16:15
• "Then she said to him, 'How can you say, 'I love you,' when you won't confide in me?  This is the third time you have made a fool of me and haven't told me the secret of your great strength.'"

Love Verses in the Bible - Joshua

Love is the foremost trait in all of Scripture. Because of Love, God sent His Son Jesus Christ to redeem us from the penalty of our sin through His sacrifice and victory at the cross.  Jesus Christ identified the most important commandments in all of Scripture to be: Love God, Love your neighbor.  Just before His crucifixion, Jesus said: "A new command I give you: Love one another.  As I have loved you, so you must love one another."  Without God, this is simply impossible because "God is Love."

As C.S. Lewis wrote, "In God, there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give."

Love

• Joshua 22:5
• "But be very careful to keep the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord gave you: 'to love the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to obey his commands, to hold fast to him and to serve him with all your heart and all your soul."
• Joshua 23:11
• "So be very careful to love the Lord your God"

Love Verses in the Bible - Deuteronomy

Love is the foremost trait in all of Scripture. Because of Love, God sent His Son Jesus Christ to redeem us from the penalty of our sin through His sacrifice and victory at the cross.  Jesus Christ identified the most important commandments in all of Scripture to be: Love God, Love your neighbor.  Just before His crucifixion, Jesus said: "A new command I give you: Love one another.  As I have loved you, so you must love one another."  Without God, this is simply impossible because "God is Love."

As C.S. Lewis wrote, "In God, there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give."

Love

• Deuteronomy 5:10
• "but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments."
• Deuteronomy 6:5
• "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength."
• Deuteronomy 7:9
• "Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands."
• Deuteronomy 7:12
• "If you pay attention to these laws and are careful to follow them, then the Lord your God will keep his covenant of love with you, as he swore to your forefathers."
• Deuteronomy 7:13
• "He will love you and bless you and increase your numbers.  He will bless the fruit of your womb, the crops of your land -- your grain, new wine and oil -- the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks in the land that he swore to your forefathers to give you."
• Deuteronomy 10:12
• "And now, O Israel, what do the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,"
• Deuteronomy 10:19
• "And you are to love those who are aliens, for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt."
• Deuteronomy 11:1
• "Love the Lord your God and keep his requirements, his decrees, his laws and his commands always."
• Deuteronomy 11:13
• "So if you faithfully obey the commands I am giving you today -- to love the Lord your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul --"
• Deuteronomy 11:22
• "If you carefully observe all these commands I am giving you to follow -- to love the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways and to hold fast to him --"
• Deuteronomy 13:3
• "you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer.  The Lord your God is testing you to find out whether you love him with all our heart and with all your soul."
• Deuteronomy 13:6
• "If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, 'Let us go and worship other gods' (gods that neither you nor your fathers have known, gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, from one end of the land to the other),"
• Deuteronomy 19:9
• "because you carefully follow all these laws I command you today -- to love the Lord your God and to walk always in his ways -- then you are to set aside three more cities."
• Deuteronomy 21:15
• "If a man has two wives, and he loves one but not the other, and both bear him sons but the firstborn is the son of the wife he does not love,"
• Deuteronomy 21:16
• "when he wills his property to his sons, he must not give the rights of the firstborn to the son of the wife he loves in preference to his actual firstborn, the son of the wife he does not love."
• Deuteronomy 30:6
• "The Lord your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live."
• Deuteronomy 30:16
• "For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess."
• Deuteronomy 30:20
• "and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him.  For the Lord is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."
• Deuteronomy 33:3
• "Surely it is you who love the people; all the holy ones are in your hand.  At your feet they all bow down, and from you receive instruction,"

Loved

• Deuteronomy 4:37
• "Because he loved your forefathers and chose their descendants after them, he brought you out of Egypt by his Presence and his great strength,"
• Deuteronomy 7:8
• "But, it was because the Lord loved you and kept the oath he swore to your forefathers that he brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt."
• Deuteronomy 10:15
• "Yet the Lord set his affection on your forefathers and loved them, and he chose you, their descendants, above all the nations, as it is today."

Loves

• Deuteronomy 10:18
• "He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the alien, giving him food and clothing."
• Deuteronomy 15:16
• "But if your servant says to you, 'I do not want to leave you,' because he loves you and your family and is well off with you,"
• Deuteronomy 21:15
• "If a man has two wives, and he loves one but not the other, and both bear him sons but the firstborn is the son of the wife he does not love,"
• Deuteronomy 21:16
• "when he wills his property to his sons, he must not give the rights of the firstborn to the son of the wife he loves in preference to his actual firstborn, the son of the wife he does not love."
• Deuteronomy 23:5
• "However, the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam but turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loves you."
• Deuteronomy 28:54
• "Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children,"
• Deuteronomy 28:56
• "The most gentle and sensitive woman among you -- so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot -- will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter"
• Deuteronomy 33:12
• "About Benjamin he said: 'Let the beloved of the Lord rest secure in him, for he shields him all day long, and the one the Lord loves rests between his shoulders.'"

Love Verses in the Bible - Numbers

Love is the foremost trait in all of Scripture. Because of Love, God sent His Son Jesus Christ to redeem us from the penalty of our sin through His sacrifice and victory at the cross.  Jesus Christ identified the most important commandments in all of Scripture to be: Love God, Love your neighbor.  Just before His crucifixion, Jesus said: "A new command I give you: Love one another.  As I have loved you, so you must love one another."  Without God, this is simply impossible because "God is Love."

As C.S. Lewis wrote, "In God, there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give."

Love

• Numbers 14:18
• "'The Lord is slow to anger, abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion.  Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation.'"
• Numbers 14:19
• "'In accordance with your great love, forgive the sin of these people, just as you have pardoned them from the time they left Egypt until now.'"

Love Verses in the Bible - Leviticus

Love is the foremost trait in all of Scripture. Because of Love, God sent His Son Jesus Christ to redeem us from the penalty of our sin through His sacrifice and victory at the cross.  Jesus Christ identified the most important commandments in all of Scripture to be: Love God, Love your neighbor.  Just before His crucifixion, Jesus said: "A new command I give you: Love one another.  As I have loved you, so you must love one another."  Without God, this is simply impossible because "God is Love."

As C.S. Lewis wrote, "In God, there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give."

Love

• Leviticus 19:18
• "Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself.  I am the Lord."
• Leviticus 19:34
• "The alien living with you must be treated as one of your native-born.  Love him as yourself, for you were aliens in Egypt.  I am the Lord your God."

Love Verses in the Bible - Exodus

Love is the foremost trait in all of Scripture. Because of Love, God sent His Son Jesus Christ to redeem us from the penalty of our sin through His sacrifice and victory at the cross.  Jesus Christ identified the most important commandments in all of Scripture to be: Love God, Love your neighbor.  Just before His crucifixion, Jesus said: "A new command I give you: Love one another.  As I have loved you, so you must love one another."  Without God, this is simply impossible because "God is Love."

As C.S. Lewis wrote, "In God, there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give."

Love

• Exodus 15:13
• "In your unfailing love you will lead the people you have redeemed."
• Exodus 20:6
• "but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments."
• Exodus 21:5
• "But if the servant declares, 'I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,'"
• Exodus 34:6
• "And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, 'The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness,'"
• Exodus 34:7
• "maintain love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin.  Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation.'"

 

Love Verses in the Bible - Genesis

Love is the foremost trait in all of Scripture.
Because of Love, God sent His Son Jesus Christ to redeem us from the penalty of our sin through His sacrifice and victory at the cross.  Jesus Christ identified the most important commandments in all of Scripture to be: Love God, Love your neighbor.  Just before His crucifixion, Jesus said: "A new command I give you: Love one another.  As I have loved you, so you must love one another."  Without God, this is simply impossible because "God is Love."

As C.S. Lewis wrote, "In God, there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give."

Love

• Genesis 20:13
• "And when God had me wander from my father's household, I said to her, 'This is how you can show your love to me: Everywhere you go, say of me, `He is my brother.`'"
• Genesis 22:2
• "Then God said, 'Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah.  Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about.'"
• Genesis 29:18
• "Jacob was in love with Rachel and said, 'I'll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel.'"
• Genesis 29:20
• "So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her."
• Genesis 29:32
• "Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son.  She named him Reuben, for she said, 'It is because the Lord has seen my misery.  Surely my husband will love me now.'"

Loved

• Genesis 24:67
• "Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah, and he married Rebekah.  So she became his wife, and he loved her; and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death."
• Genesis 25:28
• "Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob."
• Genesis 29:30
• "Jacob lay with Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah.  And he worked for Laban another seven years."
• Genesis 29:31
• "When the Lord saw that Leah was not loved, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren"
• Genesis 29:33
• "She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said, 'Because the Lord heard that I am not loved, he gave me this one too.' So she named him Simeon."
• Genesis 34:3
• "His heart was drawn to Dinah daughter of Jacob, and he loved the girl and spoke tenderly to her.  And Shechem said to his father Hamor, 'Get me this girl as my wife.'"
• Genesis 37:3
• "Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made a richly ornamented robe for him."
• Genesis 37:4
• "When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him."

Lovely

• Genesis 29:17
• "Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel was lovely in form, and beautiful."

Loves

• Genesis 44:20
• "And we answered, 'We have an aged father, and there is a young son born to him in his old age.  His brother is dead, and he is the only one of his mother's sons left, and his father loves him."

What is Love? VI

Love is the master key that unlocks the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and most easily of all, the gate of fear.  - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Happiness is the China shop; Love is the bull.  - M.L. Mencken

And loves flame is superior to physical law in that, the less ventilation it has, the more fiercely it burns.

Love's fire, if it once goes out, is hard to kindle.

Love must be as much a light as a flame.  - Henry David Thoreau

Love is the wildcard of existence. - Rita Mae Brown

Love is a golden bubble, full of dreams,
That waking breaks, and fills us with extremes.  - George Chaoman

What is Love? V

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."

What is Love? IV

What is Love? III

Love's as Warm as Tears

Love’s as warm as tears,
Love is tears:
Pressure within the brain,
Tension at the throat,
Deluge, weeks of rain,
Haystacks afloat,
Featureless seas between
Hedges, where once was green

Love’s as fierce as fire, 

Love is fire:
All sorts–Infernal heat
Clinkered with greed and pride, 

Lyric desire, sharp-sweet,
Laughing, even when denied, 

And that empyreal flame 

Whence all loves came. 
 

Love’s as fresh as spring,
Love is spring:
Bird-song in the air,
Cool smells in a wood,
Whispering “Dare! Dare!”
To sap, to blood,
Telling “Ease, safety, rest,
Are good; not best.” 

Love’s as hard as nails,
Love is nails: 

Blunt, thick, hammered through 

The medial nerves of One 

Who, having made us, knew 

The thing He had done,
Seeing (what all that is)
Our cross, and His. 


C.S. Lewis

What is Love? II

Love!  What is it?  What it is... it is, what?

Can Love be examined objectively, or is it necessarily subjective?  Is Love more like Truth -- universal and steadfast -- or is it more like a sweet dream -- vague and amorphous?

Love is the deepest desire of my soul... the need for Love.  But how do I quench this thirst?  How can I satiate the insatiable?  Can refreshment be found among broken cisterns?  How I desire to fill these dry wells myself...!  But my own well is scorched, fractured, and overflowing with dust.  Fill me!  But there is no water to be found within the desert.

I cry out for Love... and hear the sound of silence.  How do I search for what I cannot describe!  Does anybody else seek...?  Perhaps they have found!  But the melancholy... no, there are only shadows, dim reflections within a dark mirror.  If this is Love, then the pursuit... meaningless.

It must be a fable, a bed time story, a parable.  But the void in my heart demands satisfaction, demands belief until it has its fill... or death buries the urge.  Either way, peace.  Will Love then fall away?

Love.  What is Love?  No one can define it;

It's something so great, only God could design it;

Yes Love is beyond what man could define;

For Love is Immortal, And God's Gift is divine.

Where are you Love?

What is Love?

A feeling?  An emotion?  A force of nature?

Maybe it's a song or a story or a sign.  Maybe it's action... or is it reaction?  After all, "to love is Nothing, to be loved is Something, but to love and to be loved is Everything."  Everything... is love everything?

Maybe it is more than just one thing: pure, unconditional, deep, devoted, unending, perfect, blind, lost. Maybe it's experienced in the moment, maybe it's outside of time altogether.

Why ask?

 "The wise are wise because they love.  The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love."  Is love therefore of the heart rather than of the mind?  As they say, "if you've never lost your sanity, then you've never been in love."

Fear is of the mind, but love is of the heart.  Does perfect love not drive out fear?

What is love?