Love Verses in the Bible - Ezekiel

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

• Ezekiel 16:8
• "'Later I passed by, and when I looked at you and saw that you were old enough for love, I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness.  I gave you my solemn oath and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Sovereign Lord, and you became mine."
• Ezekiel 23:17
• "Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her.  After she had been defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust."
• Ezekiel 33:32
• "Indeed, to them you are nothing more than one who sings love songs with a beautiful voice and plays an instrument well, for they hear your words but do not put them into practice."

Loved

• Ezekiel 16:37
• "therefore I am going to gather all your lovers, with whom you found pleasure, those you loved as well as those you hated.  I will gather them against you from all around and will strip you in front of them, and they will see all your nakedness."

Lovers

• Ezekiel 16:33
• "Every prostitute receives a fee, but you give gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from everywhere for your illicit favors."
• Ezekiel 16:36
• "This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because you poured out your wealth and exposed your nakedness in your promiscuity with your lovers, and because of all your detestable idols, and because you gave them your children's blood,"
• Ezekiel 16:37
• "therefore I am going to gather all your lovers, with whom you found pleasure, those you loved as well as those you hated.  I will gather them against you from all around and will strip you in front of them, and they will see all your nakedness."
• Ezekiel 16:39
• "Then I will hand you over to your lovers, and they will tear down your mounds and destroy your lofty shrines.  They will strip you of your clothes and take your fine jewelry and leave you naked and bard."
• Ezekiel 16:41
• "They will burn down your houses and inflict punishment on you in the sight of many women.  I will put a stop to your prostitution, and you will no longer pay your lovers."
• Ezekiel 23:5
• "Oholah engaged in prostitution while she was still mine; and she lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians -- warriors"
• Ezekiel 23:9
• "Therefore I handed her over to her lovers, the Assyrians, for whom she lusted."
• Ezekiel 23:20
• "There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses."
• Ezekiel 23:22
• "Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will stir up your lovers against you, those you turned away from in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side --"