Love

This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.

The elder, To the beloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth:

The LORD loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of His loving devotion.

And again he slept with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. So he named him Beriah, because tragedy had come upon his house.

And I had relations with the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. The LORD said to me, “Name him Maher-shalal-hash-baz.

May Your loving devotion come to me, O LORD, Your salvation, according to Your promise.

An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

For Your loving devotion extends beyond the heavens, and Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.

For if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you to follow—to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him—

Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.

But from everlasting to everlasting the loving devotion of the LORD extends to those who fear Him, and His righteousness to their children’s children—

So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.

Let them give thanks to the LORD for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.

Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.

You will show faithfulness to Jacob and loving devotion to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers from the days of old.

So you also must love the foreigner, since you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

That is why I have sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ Jesus, which is exactly what I teach everywhere in every church.

Do not those who contrive evil go astray? But those who plan goodness find loving devotion and faithfulness.

I take great joy and encouragement in your love, because you, brother, have refreshed the hearts of the saints.

So now hear this, O lover of luxury who sits securely, who says to herself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or know the loss of children.’

Rise up; be our help! Redeem us on account of Your loving devotion.

Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorious joy,

May Your loving devotion comfort me, I pray, according to Your promise to Your servant.

Give thanks to the God of gods. His loving devotion endures forever.

Loving devotion and faithfulness have joined together; righteousness and peace have kissed.

Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.