Bible Verses About Love

Listen, daughter! Think, pay attention! Forget your own people and your father's house,

and the king will desire your beauty; for he is your lord, so honor him.

I am as satisfied as with rich food; my mouth praises you with joy on my lips

when I remember you on my bed and meditate on you in the night watches.

For God will save Tziyon, he will build the cities of Y'hudah. [His people] will settle there and possess it.

The descendants of his servants will inherit it, and those who love his name will live there.

Whom do I have in heaven but you? And with you, I lack nothing on earth.

My mind and body may fail; but God is the rock for my mind and my portion forever.

"And the foreigners who join themselves to ADONAI to serve him, to love the name of ADONAI, and to be his workers, all who keep Shabbat and do not profane it, and hold fast to my covenant,

I will bring them to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples."

"Go and shout in the ears of Yerushalayim that this is what ADONAI says: 'I remember your devotion when you were young; how, as a bride, you loved me; how you followed me through the desert, through a land not sown.

"'Isra'el is set aside for ADONAI, the firstfruits of his harvest; all who devour him will incur guilt; evil will befall them," says ADONAI.

He told him, "`You are to love ADONAI your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.'

This is the greatest and most important mitzvah.

Yeshua answered, "The most important is, `Sh'ma Yisra'el, ADONAI Eloheinu, ADONAI echad [Hear, O Isra'el, the LORD our God, the LORD is one],

and you are to love ADONAI your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your understanding and with all your strength.'

The Torah-teacher said to him, "Well said, Rabbi; you speak the truth when you say that he is one, and that there is no other besides him;

and that loving him with all one's heart, understanding and strength, and loving one's neighbor as oneself, mean more than all the burnt offerings and sacrifices."

If someone has worldly possessions and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how can he be loving God?

Children, let us love not with words and talk, but with actions and in reality!

Also we have come to know and trust the love that God has for us. God is love; and those who remain in this love remain united with God, and God remains united with them.

Here is how love has been brought to maturity with us: as the Messiah is, so are we in the world. This gives us confidence for the Day of Judgment.

There is no fear in love. On the contrary, love that has achieved its goal gets rid of fear, because fear has to do with punishment; the person who keeps fearing has not been brought to maturity in regard to love.

We ourselves love now because he loved us first.

If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar. For if a person does not love his brother, whom he has seen, then he cannot love God, whom he has not seen.