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Verses on God's Love for us
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Posted by: JG
"For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor
angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present,
nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other
creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God,
which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:38-39, KJV
"The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men
count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not
willing that any should perish, but that all should come to
repentance." 2 Peter 3:9, KJV
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten
Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but
have everlasting life." John 3:16, KJV
"Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down
his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the
brethren." 1 John 3:16, KJV
"But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we
were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8, KJV
"Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth
them that fear him." Psalms 103:13, KJV
"It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed,
because his compassions fail not. They are new every
morning: great is thy faithfulness."
Lamentations 3:22-23, KJV
Deut 7:13 He will love you and bless you and increase your numbers. He will bless the fruit of your womb, the crops of your land-- your grain, new wine and oil-- the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks in the land that he swore to your forefathers to give you. (NIV)
Deut 7:13 He will love you and bless you and increase your numbers. He will bless the fruit of your womb, the crops of your land-- your grain, new wine and oil-- the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks in the land that he swore to your forefathers to give you. (NIV)
Ps 146:8 the LORD gives sight to the blind, the LORD lifts up those who are bowed down, the LORD loves the righteous. (NIV)
Prov 15:9 The LORD detests the way of the wicked but he loves those who pursue righteousness. (NIV)
Isa 62:5 As a young man marries a maiden, so will your sons marry you; as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so will your God rejoice over you. (NIV)
Jer 31:3 The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: "I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness. (NIV)
Jer 32:41 I will rejoice in doing them good and will assuredly plant them in this land with all my heart and soul. (NIV)
Zeph 3:17 The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing." (NIV)
Hosea 14:4 "I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger has turned away from them. (NIV)
Eph 2:4-7 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions-- it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. (NIV)
I Jn 4:10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. (NIV)
I Jn 4:16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. (NIV)
I Jn 4:19 We love because he first loved us. (NIV)
II Th 2:16-17 May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope, encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good deed and word. (NIV)
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Psa 36:5 (NIV) Your love, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies.
Psa 36:7 (NIV) How priceless is your unfailing love! Both high and low among men find refuge in the shadow of your wings.
Jer 31:3 (NIV) The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: "I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.
Lam 3:22 (NIV) Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.
Zep 3:17 (NIV) The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing."
1 John 4:16 (NIV) And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.
John 3:16 (NIV) "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
1 John 3:1 (NIV) How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
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Posted by: JG
Verses about love
(Gal 5:22-23 NRSV) By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.
(Deu 10:12-13 NRSV) So now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you? Only to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13 and to keep the commandments of the LORD your God and his decrees that I am commanding you today, for your own well-being.
(Deu 10:19 NRSV) You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
(Prov 10:12 NRSV) Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.
(Mat 5:46 NRSV) For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
(Luke 6:35 NRSV) But love your enemies, do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return. Your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked.
(John 13:35 NRSV) By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.
(Rom 12:9-10 NRSV) Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; 10 love one another with mutual affection; outdo one another in showing honor.
(Rom 14:15-16 NRSV) If your brother or sister is being injured by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. Do not let what you eat cause the ruin of one for whom Christ died. 16 So do not let your good be spoken of as evil.
(1 Cor 13:1-7 NRSV) If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Posted by: JG
First of all, God created "love". I John 4:9,10 Love explains: 1) why God creates – because He loves, He creates people to love: 2) why God cares – because He loves them, He cares for sinful people: 3) why we are free to receive and reject – because He wants a loving response from us; 4) why Christ died – His love for us caused Him to seek a solution to the problem of sin; and 5) why we receive eternal life – His love expresses itself to us FOREVER. "In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent His only begotten (unique) Son into the world, that we might live through Him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the satisfaction for our sins."
I John 4: 19 God’s love is the source of all human love. It is not natural for man to love God. We love Him because He first loved us." This is a process..the more I get to "know" God the more I love Him but it always amazes me that He can love me!
I John 4:11 God’s love for us gives us the capacity to love others. "Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought to love one another." We are motivated by His love for us.
I John 4:18 God’s love for us removes all fear. We can resolve our fears by focusing on His immeasurable love for us. "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear; because fear has torment. He that fears is not made perfect in love."
Famous "Love Chapter": I Corinthians 13: 1-8 (This defines real love.) Love is more important than all spiritual gifts exercised within the church body. Love makes our actions and gifts useful and love is available to all. Society confuses lust with love. God’s kind of love is directed outwardly toward others…not ourselves. It must be unselfish – giving love expecting nothing in return, which is not natural for us. This is God’s kind of love. The closer we get to God, the more unselfish we become in loving others.
John 15:1-10 Tells of God’s great love for all. Vs 9 Jesus says: "As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you: continue in my love." Vs 10 is the key verse: "If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in His love."
John 3:16 – God’s wondrous expression of "love". "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." This is GOD’S GREAT LOVE STORY!
John 15: 11 - Explains the results – "…that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full." That inward peace and joy that comes from abiding in His great love!
John 15: 12 - We are commanded to love one another, as He has loved us – to the extent that His love was so great that He laid down His life for us. (Vs. 13)
Ephesians 5: 21-33 - God gives His principles regarding the love between husband and wife; how a husband is to love his wife and how the wife is to love her husband. This is so beautiful to me.
The Song of Solomon tells of the love between a bridegroom (King Solomon) and his bride, to affirm the sanctity of marriage. It also pictures God’s love for His people. The key verse in this book is: "I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine. (6:3) This Book is an allegory of God’s love for Israel and the church. Also a literal story about married love. Here we can learn about love, marriage and sex as well as seeing God’s overwhelming love for His people.
Solomon 8: 6,7 - shows that love is as strong as death itself; it cannot be killed by time or disaster. It cannot be bought; it is freely given; it is priceless and must be shared within the guidelines that God provides. It urges that we accept the love of our spouse as God’s gift. Make your love a reflection of the perfect love that comes from God.
Solomon 8: 11,12 – in a good marriage there is no private property, everything is to be shared.
Solomon 8: 14 – the faithfulness of our marital love should reflect God’s perfect faithfulness to us.
Posted by: JG
The Lord reproves him whom he loves. [Proverbs 3:12]
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses. [Proverbs 10:12]
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in
him should not parish but have eternal life. [John 3:16]
If you love me you will keep my commandments. [John 14:15]
This is my commandment that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has
no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. [John 15:13]
You have heard that it was said, "You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy." But I
say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you be sons
of your Father who is in heaven. . . . For if you love those who love you, what reward
have you? [Gospel according to St. Matthew 5:43]
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your
mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it. You shall love
your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend the law and the
prophets. [Gospel according to St. Matthew 22:37]
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my
commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s
commandments and abide in His love. [Gospel according to St. John 15:9]
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a
clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all
knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am
nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not
love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does
not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong but
rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all
things.
Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease as for
knowledge, it will pass away. For our knowledge is imperfect; but when the perfect
comes, the imperfect will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I reasoned
like a child, I thought like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For
now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall
understand fully, even as I have been fully understood. So faith, hope, love abide, these
three; but the greatest of these is love. [The First Letter of St. Paul to Corinthians 13:1-13]
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No man has ever seen God;
if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. [First Letter of St. John 4:11-12]
Posted by: JG
Scripture verses relating to love.
John 3:16 - For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
John 13:34 - A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
John 14:21 - 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.
1 John 4:12 - No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and his love is perfected in us.
1 John 4:7 - Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loves is born of God, and knoweth God.
1 John 4:8 - He that loves not knows not God; for God is love.
1 John 4:9 - In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
1 John 4:10 - Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1 John 4:11 - Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
1 John 4:12 - No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and his love is perfected in us.
1 John 4:7 - 12 - ( all 6 verses on one item )
Romans 8:37 - Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Romans 8:38 - For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Romans 8:39 - Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 37 - 39 - ( all 3 verses on one item )
1 John 4:16 - And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him.
1 John 4:19 - We love him, because he first loved us.
John 15:10 - If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
Psalm 145:20 - The LORD preserves all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.
John 14:21 - 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.
1 Corinthians 8:3 - But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
John 15:9 - As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
1 Corinthians 2:9 - But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
Ephesians 3:19 - And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.
1 John 4:10 - Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1 John 4:7 - Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
Proverbs 8:17 - I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
1 Corinthians 13:13 - And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
Ephesians 2:4 - But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
Jeremiah 31:3 - I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn thee.
Romans 5:8 - But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:5 - And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
2 Thessalonians 3:5 - And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
John 2:5 - But whosoever keeps his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
1 John 3:1 - Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God
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Job 10:12 You gave me life and showed me your unfailing love. My life was preserved by your care.
Psalm 33:18 But the Lord watches over those who fear him, those who rely on his unfailing love.
Psalm 63:3 Your unfailing love is better to me than life itself; how I praise you!
Isaiah 54:10 For the mountains may depart and the hills disappear, but even then I will remain loyal to you. My covenant of blessing will never be broken,” says the Lord, who has mercy on you.
Ephesians 1:4 Long ago, even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes.
1 John 3:1 See how very much our heavenly Father loves us, for he allows us to be called his children, and we really are!
Ephesians 5:1 Follow God’s example in everything you do, because you are his dear children. 2 Live a life filled with love for others, following the example of Christ, who loved you and gave himself as a sacrifice to take away your sins. And God was pleased, because that sacrifice was like sweet perfume to him.
Posted by: Ragamuffin
Once again, thank you - this time a copied and pasted into my own document! You have touched my heart and I'll share my very favorite verse... 1 Corinithans 13:12 "For now we are looking in a mirror that gives only a dim (blurred) reflection [of reality as in a riddle or enigma}, but THEN [when perfection comes] we SHALL SEE IN REALITY AND FACE TO FACE! Now I know inpart (imperfectly), but THEN I SHALL KNOW AND UNDERSTAND FULLY AND CLEARLY (HALLELUJAH!!!) even inthe same manner as I have been fully known and understood [by God]. (emphasis mine) The Amplified Bible
Thank you for sending me through my bible to find the verses that resound in my soul and lift me closer to my Jesus. God bless you!
Posted by: Sulten
Here is some wonderful reading on the love God has for his children.