Love

Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.

The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.

He alone does great wonders. His loving devotion endures forever.

No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.

but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”

So may all Your enemies perish, O LORD! But may those who love You shine like the sun at its brightest.” And the land had rest for forty years.

Do not forsake wisdom, and she will preserve you; love her, and she will guard you.

So if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,

Because Your loving devotion is better than life, my lips will glorify You.

Hear my voice, O LORD, according to Your loving devotion; give me life according to Your justice.

Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.

and He gave their land as an inheritance, His loving devotion endures forever.

Mighty waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love, his offer would be utterly scorned.

Then I said: “O LORD, God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion with those who love Him and keep His commandments,

Finally, all of you, be like-minded and sympathetic, love as brothers, be tenderhearted and humble.

O LORD, do not withhold Your mercy from me; Your loving devotion and faithfulness will always guard me.

the moon and stars to govern the night. His loving devotion endures forever.

Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, will be with us in truth and love.

Surely You love the people; all the holy ones are in Your hand, and they sit down at Your feet; each receives Your words—

Later, Hezron slept with the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead. He had married her when he was sixty years old, and she bore to him Segub.

Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

And Adam again had relations with his wife, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another seed in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”

Then the woman whose son was alive spoke to the king because she yearned with compassion for her son. “Please, my lord,” she said, “give her the living baby. Do not kill him!” But the other woman said, “He will be neither mine nor yours. Cut him in two!”

If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Do not even tax collectors do the same?

“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

I compare you, my darling, to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots.

May all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; may those who love Your salvation always say, “Let God be magnified!”

By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His commandments.

in purity, knowledge, patience, and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love;

And he will go on before the Lord in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”