Bible on Love

Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him!

He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.

I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.

I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.

I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me.

These things I command you, that ye love one another.

Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.

Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.

Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the LORD.

I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.

I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.

My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.

My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.

How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!

Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.

But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.

Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who is devoted to thy fear.

And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.

And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

But if any man love God, the same is known of him.

Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.

With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.

Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God.

Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?

To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night,

For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.

And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.

O how I love thy law! it is my meditation all the day.

Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.

Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.

My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.

For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.

Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.

Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers;

Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.

And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.

Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.

We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

That thy beloved may be delivered; save with thy right hand, and hear me.