Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil.
1 Corinthians 13:4-5
patience | anger
Let all that you do be done in love.
1 Corinthians 16:14
work
Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning,
for I trust in you.
Cause me to know the way in which I should walk,
for I lift up my soul to you.
Psalm 143:8
trust | planning
Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
Colossians 3:14
community | blameless
Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you.
Bind them around your neck.
Write them on the tablet of your heart.
So you will find favor,
and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
Proverbs 3:3-4
reward | heart | valuable
We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
1 John 4:16
trust | God
But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:13
faith | hope
We love him, because he first loved us.
1 John 4:19
God
With all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love.
Ephesians 4:2
humility | patience
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
1 Peter 4:8
sin | neighbor
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
Romans 12:9
evil | goodness
That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love.
Ephesians 3:16-17
faith | Spirit
This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
John 15:12
law | Jesus
If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:2
faith | prophecy
May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and into the perseverance of Christ.
2 Thessalonians 3:5
transformation | following | faithfulness
Can a woman forget her nursing child,
that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?
Yes, these may forget,
yet I will not forget you!
Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands.
Your walls are continually before me.
Isaiah 49:15-16
family | children | compassion
In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor prefer one another.
Romans 12:10
neighbor
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word.
Ephesians 5:25-26
purification | relationships | marriage
No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
1 John 4:12
God | neighbor
Set me as a seal on your heart,
as a seal on your arm;
for love is strong as death.
Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol.
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
a very flame of Yah.
Song of songs 8:6
heart | death
If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
1 John 4:20
God | family
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:13
sacrifice | friendship
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.
1 John 4:18
Since you have been precious and honored in my sight,
and I have loved you,
therefore I will give people in your place,
and nations instead of your life.
Isaiah 43:4
salvation | encouragement | valuable
But as it is written,
“Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear,
which didn’t enter into the heart of man,
these God has prepared for those who love him.”
1 Corinthians 2:9
reward
Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
Romans 13:8
law | debt
May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all men, even as we also do toward you.
1 Thessalonians 3:12
neighbor | relationships
See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.
1 John 3:1
Father | children | world
He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
1 John 4:8
God
Hatred stirs up strife,
but love covers all wrongs.
Proverbs 10:12
anger | evil
He who follows after righteousness and kindness
finds life, righteousness, and honor.
Proverbs 21:21
righteousness | life
It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed,
because his mercies don’t fail.
They are new every morning.
Great is your faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:22-23
reliability | compassion | faithfulness
For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from God’s love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:38-39
mediator | death | angels
‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment.
Mark 12:30
God | strength
Doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
1 Corinthians 13:6-7
truth | evil | protection
May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
Jude 1:2
blessing | peace
The second is like this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.
Mark 12:31
law | neighbor | selfishness
Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.
1 Corinthians 10:24
selfishness | neighbor
I love Yahweh, because he listens to my voice,
and my cries for mercy.
Because he has turned his ear to me,
therefore I will call on him as long as I live.
Psalm 116:1-2
worship | listening
But speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ.
Ephesians 4:15
truth | Jesus | church
If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
1 Corinthians 13:1
speaking | angels
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Galatians 5:22-23
law | Spirit | blessing
Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.
Romans 13:10
law | neighbor
For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
2 Timothy 1:7
self-control | strength | Spirit
For,
“He who would love life
and see good days,
let him keep his tongue from evil
and his lips from speaking deceit.
Let him turn away from evil and do good.
Let him seek peace and pursue it.”
1 Peter 3:10-11
peace | life | lying
But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you.
Matthew 5:44
prayer | persecution
Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.
1 Timothy 4:12
faith | life
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Romans 8:35
suffering | persecution | poverty
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
1 John 4:10
sin | Savior | reconciliation
For his anger is but for a moment.
His favor is for a lifetime.
Weeping may stay for the night,
but joy comes in the morning.
Psalm 30:5
patience | sadness
Yahweh is merciful and gracious,
slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.
Psalm 103:8
grace | patience
Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime.
In the night his song shall be with me:
a prayer to the God of my life.
Psalm 42:8
worship | prayer
Because your loving kindness is better than life,
my lips shall praise you.
So I will bless you while I live.
I will lift up my hands in your name.
Psalm 63:3-4
life | worship | praise
You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him. You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.
Leviticus 19:17-18
gentleness | anger | neighbor
Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge; and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control, perseverance; and in perseverance, godliness; and in godliness, brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.
2 Peter 1:5-7
faith | goodness | self-control
If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:3
suffering | giving | pride
But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.
1 Timothy 6:11
faith | righteousness
Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
Ephesians 5:2
sacrifice | Jesus
Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
1 John 4:11
God | community
When I said, “My foot is slipping!”
Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.
Psalm 94:18
reliability | dependence
For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
1 John 3:11
law | neighbor
Let brotherly love continue. Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.
Hebrews 13:1-2
gentleness | neighbor | angels
“For the mountains may depart,
and the hills be removed,
but my loving kindness will not depart from you,
and my covenant of peace will not be removed,”
says Yahweh who has mercy on you.
Isaiah 54:10
peace | reliability | covenant
Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
1 John 4:7
neighbor | friendship | rebirth
He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”
Luke 10:27
law | obedience
For your great loving kindness reaches to the heavens,
and your truth to the skies.
Psalm 57:10
reliability
Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.
1 John 2:15
sin | Father | world
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
Romans 8:37
overcoming | God
If you love me, keep my commandments.
John 14:15
law | Jesus
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.
John 13:34
law | neighbor
We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Romans 8:28
God | calling
For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive,
abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
Psalm 86:5
reliability | forgiveness
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Galatians 5:14
law | neighbor
By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his only born Son into the world that we might live through him.
1 John 4:9
Jesus | life | world
By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.
John 13:35
evangelism | following
And hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
Romans 5:5
hope | heart | Spirit
One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.
John 14:21
law | Father
My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline,
neither be weary of his correction;
for whom Yahweh loves, he corrects,
even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.
Proverbs 3:11-12
Father | learning | punishment
As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
Revelation 3:19
life | punishment | conversion
But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved.
Ephesians 2:4-5
mercy | Jesus | grace
By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
1 John 3:16
Jesus | neighbor
He loves righteousness and justice.
The earth is full of the loving kindness of Yahweh.
Psalm 33:5
reliability | righteousness
Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.
2 Corinthians 13:11
life | peace | nearness
For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
Galatians 5:13
freedom | humility | desires
For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Romans 13:9
law | neighbor
That their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ.
Colossians 2:2
Jesus | encouragement | understanding
A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
Matthew 22:39
law | neighbor
Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.”
John 14:23
obedience | Father
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.
2 Corinthians 13:14
grace | blessing | Holy Spirit
One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after:
that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life,
to see Yahweh’s beauty,
and to inquire in his temple.
Psalm 27:4
God | nearness
But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?
1 John 3:17
money | neighbor | compassion
I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.
John 17:26
Jesus | prayer
This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.
1 John 4:21
law | friendship
Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one. You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
Deuteronomy 6:4-5
law | God
But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit. Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
Jude 1:20-21
faith | Holy Spirit | Jesus
Like a father has compassion on his children,
so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.
Psalm 103:13
fear | Father | compassion
Make your face to shine on your servant.
Save me in your loving kindness.
Psalm 31:16
blessing | salvation | light
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
John 3:16
grace | eternal life | faith
We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds.
2 Thessalonians 1:3
faith | gratitude
Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh.
Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.
Psalm 40:11
reliability | protection | mercy
For the love of Christ compels us; because we judge thus: that one died for all, therefore all died. He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
2 Corinthians 5:14-15
life | resurrection
‘You shall not murder.’ ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ ‘You shall not steal.’ ‘You shall not offer false testimony.’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’ And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
Matthew 19:18b-19
law | family | reliability
If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, even as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.
John 15:10
law | Jesus
Tear your heart and not your garments,
and turn to Yahweh, your God;
for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness,
and relents from sending calamity.
Joel 2:13
heart | grace | reliability
Not to us, Yahweh, not to us,
but to your name give glory,
for your loving kindness, and for your truth’s sake.
Psalm 115:1
humility | worship | faithfulness
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision amounts to anything, but faith working through love.
Galatians 5:6
faith | Jesus | valuable
Praise Yah!
Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh,
who delights greatly in his commandments.
Psalm 112:1
law | awe
For they didn’t get the land in possession by their own sword,
neither did their own arm save them;
but your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face,
because you were favorable to them.
Psalm 44:3
strength | dependence | light
And to love him with all the heart, with all the understanding, all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
Mark 12:33
heart | mind | strength
Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
2 Timothy 2:22
desires | temptation | evil
Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness,
for you reward every man according to his work.
Psalm 62:12
reward