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.'"