True love (3/4)

But I say to you: Love your enemies and pray for those… Matthew 5:44

But I say to you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
Matthew 5:44 love prayer persecution
For from the beginning
you have heard the message
that we should love one another.
1 John 3:11 law love neighbor

With all humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another in a spirit of love.
Ephesians 4:2 love humility patience
And ‘to love him with all your heart, and with all your understanding, and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself,’ is worth more than any burnt offerings and sacrifices.
Mark 12:33 heart mind strength
For God did not give us a spirit of timidity but rather a spirit of power and of love and of wisdom.
2 Timothy 1:7 love self-control strength
May the Lord guide your hearts to the love of God and the steadfastness of Christ.
2 Thessalonians 3:5 love transformation following
For the entire Law can be summed up in a single commandment: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Galatians 5:14 law love neighbor
In the same way, husbands should love their wives as they do their own bodies. The man who loves his wife loves himself.
Ephesians 5:28 relationships marriage body
Owe nothing to anyone except the debt of love you owe one another. The one who loves others has fulfilled the Law.
Romans 13:8 law love debt
Rather, professing truth and love, we will in all things grow into him who is the head, Christ.
Ephesians 4:15 love truth Jesus
Jesus answered him,
“Whoever loves me will keep my word,
and my Father will love him,
and we will come to him
and make our abode with him.”
John 14:23 love obedience Father
The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.
Mark 12:31 law love neighbor
The labors of the wicked man produce little profit,
but the one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.
Proverbs 11:18 sin righteousness reward
Anyone who has received my commandments
and observes them
is the one who loves me.
And whoever loves me
will be loved by my Father,
and I will love him
and reveal myself to him.
John 14:21 law love Father
However, each one of you should love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife should respect her husband.
Ephesians 5:33 marriage relationships
This is what love is:
not that we have loved God,
but that he loved us
and sent his Son as expiation for our sins.
1 John 4:10 sin love Savior
The love of money is the root of all evils, and in their desire for it some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many serious wounds.
1 Timothy 6:10 money evil greed
Jesus said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
Matthew 22:37 heart soul mind
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
2 Corinthians 13:13 grace blessing Holy Spirit
But as for you, man of God, you must shun all this. Rather, pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, fortitude, and gentleness.
1 Timothy 6:11 faith love righteousness
This is how we know what love is:
he laid down his life for us,
and we in turn must be prepared
to lay down our lives for our brethren.
1 John 3:16 love Jesus neighbor
We know that God makes all things work together for good for those who love him and who are called according to his purpose.
Romans 8:28 love God calling
Finally, all of you should be united in spirit, sympathetic, filled with love for one another, compassionate, and humble.
1 Peter 3:8 humility community neighbor
And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a sacrificial offering whose fragrance is pleasing to God.
Ephesians 5:2 love sacrifice Jesus
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not treat them harshly.
Colossians 3:18-19 humility marriage relationships