Love

This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.

You should have kept your feet from going bare and your throat from being thirsty. But you said, ‘It is hopeless! For I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’

Then Amnon hated Tamar with such intensity that his hatred was greater than the love he previously had. “Get up!” he said to her. “Be gone!”

You are as beautiful, my darling, as Tirzah, as lovely as Jerusalem, as majestic as troops with banners.

O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD is loving devotion, and with Him is redemption in abundance.

And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the very commandment you have heard from the beginning, that you must walk in love.

unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good,

The reason the Father loves Me is that I lay down My life in order to take it up again.

Come, let us take our fill of love till morning. Let us delight in loving caresses!

But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

Not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

He reaches down from heaven and saves me; He rebukes those who trample me. Selah God sends forth His loving devotion and His truth.

Woe to you Pharisees! You love the chief seats in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces.

But my prayer to You, O LORD, is for a time of favor. In Your abundant loving devotion, O God, answer me with Your sure salvation.

‘What shall I do?’ asked the owner of the vineyard. ‘I will send my beloved son. Perhaps they will respect him.’

O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.

Woe to you Pharisees! You pay tithes of mint, rue, and every herb, but you disregard justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without neglecting the former.

Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant— My loving devotion promised to David.

But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.

Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.

And may the Lord cause you to increase and overflow with love for one another and for everyone else, just as our love for you overflows,

“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?

I will forever preserve My loving devotion for him, and My covenant with him will stand fast.

But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him:

Abundant peace belongs to those who love Your law; nothing can make them stumble.

and continually recalling before our God and Father your work of faith, your labor of love, and your enduring hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Gomer again conceived and gave birth to a daughter, and the LORD said to Hosea, “Name her Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have compassion on the house of Israel, that I should ever forgive them.

He made the great lights— His loving devotion endures forever.

Indeed, this is what the LORD says: “Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal. Do not go to mourn or show sympathy, for I have removed from this people My peace, My loving devotion, and My compassion,” declares the LORD.

It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.