Love (2/5)

Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who… Romans 13:8

Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law.
Romans 13:8 law debt
Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.
1 John 3:1 Father children world

And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and to all, just as we do to you.
1 Thessalonians 3:12 neighbor relationships
He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
1 John 4:8 God
He who follows righteousness and mercy
Finds life, righteousness, and honor.
Proverbs 21:21 righteousness life
Hatred stirs up strife,
But love covers all sins.
Proverbs 10:12 anger evil
Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed,
Because His compassions fail not.
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 powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:38-39 mediator death angels
‘And 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
Mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
Jude 1:2 blessing peace
And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.
Mark 12:31 law neighbor selfishness
Does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
1 Corinthians 13:6-7 truth evil protection
Let no one seek his own, but each one the other’s well-being.
1 Corinthians 10:24 selfishness neighbor
I love the Lord, because He has heard
My voice and my supplications.
Because He has inclined His ear to me,
Therefore I will call upon Him as long as I live.
Psalm 116:1-2 worship listening
But, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ.
Ephesians 4:15 truth Jesus church
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not 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, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
Galatians 5:22-23 law Spirit blessing
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
2 Timothy 1:7 self-control strength Spirit
For
“He who would love life
And see good days,
Let him refrain 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
Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
Romans 13:10 law neighbor
Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
1 Timothy 4:12 faith life
But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you.
Matthew 5:44 prayer persecution
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, 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 to be the propitiation for our sins.
1 John 4:10 sin Savior reconciliation
The Lord is merciful and gracious,
Slow to anger, and abounding in mercy.
Psalm 103:8 grace patience

For His anger is but for a moment,
His favor is for life;
Weeping may endure for a night,
But joy comes in the morning.

Bible verse of the day

Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

1 John 3:1 love Father children