Love (2/5)

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for the one… Romans 13:8

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
Romans 13:8 law debt
See what love the Father has given 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.
1 John 3:1 Father children world

And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we abound in love for you.
1 Thessalonians 3:12 neighbor relationships
Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.
1 John 4:8 God
Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness
will find life and honor.
Proverbs 21:21 righteousness life
Hatred stirs up strife,
but love covers all offenses.
Proverbs 10:12 anger evil
For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:38-39 mediator death angels
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases,
his mercies never come to an end;
they are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:22-23 reliability compassion faithfulness
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.
Mark 12:30 God strength
The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.
Mark 12:31 law neighbor selfishness
May mercy, peace, and love be yours in abundance.
Jude 1:2 blessing peace
Do not seek your own advantage, but that of the other.
1 Corinthians 10:24 selfishness neighbor
It does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
1 Corinthians 13:6-7 truth evil protection
I love the Lord, because he has heard
my voice and my supplications.
Because he inclined his ear to me,
therefore I will call on him as long as I live.
Psalm 116:1-2 worship listening
But speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ.
Ephesians 4:15 truth Jesus church
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.
1 Corinthians 13:1 speaking angels
By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.
Galatians 5:22-23 law Spirit blessing
For
“Those who desire life
and desire to see good days,
let them keep their tongues from evil
and their lips from speaking deceit;
let them turn away from evil and do good;
let them seek peace and pursue it.”
1 Peter 3:10-11 peace life lying
For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline.
2 Timothy 1:7 self-control strength Spirit
Let no one despise your youth, but set the believers an example in speech and conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
1 Timothy 4:12 faith life
Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law.
Romans 13:10 law neighbor
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
Matthew 5:44 prayer persecution
For his anger is but for a moment;
his favor is for a lifetime.
Weeping may linger for the night,
but joy comes with the morning.
Psalm 30:5 patience sadness
Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, 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 atoning sacrifice for our sins.
1 John 4:10 sin Savior reconciliation