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 his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
Romans 13:8 law debt
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

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
He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
1 John 4:8 God
He who follows after righteousness and kindness
finds life, righteousness, and honor.
Proverbs 21:21 righteousness life
Hatred stirs up strife,
but love covers all wrongs.
Proverbs 10:12 anger evil
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
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
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
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
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
Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.
Romans 13:10 law neighbor
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
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
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
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