Bible verses about "love" | Mace

³⁶ which is the most important commandment of the law? ³⁷ Jesus said to him, "thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." ³⁸ this is the first and most important precept, ³⁹ and the second has an affinity with it, "thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self." ⁴⁰ these two precepts comprehend the substance of all the law and the prophets.

¹⁵ if ye love me, keep my commandments.

¹³ and now faith, hope, social virtue, these three will all remain; but the most permanent of the three is social virtue.

¹ For tho' I should speak with the eloquence of men, and of angels, and not have social affection, I should be like sounding brass, or a noisy cymbal. ² and tho' I should have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and tho' I had all the faith necessary to remove mountains, and had no benevolence, it would signify nothing. ³ and tho' I distribute my whole substance to the poor, and give my body to be burned, and have not social affection, it profits me nothing. ⁴ Social affection is patient, is kind; is a stranger to envy; is not insolently vain, nor arrogant: does not behave indecently, ⁵ is not self-interested, is not easily provoked, nor suspects any ill; ⁶ it does not countenance injustice, but smiles upon virtue; ⁷ it excuses all things, believes what is favourable, hopes for the best, and suffers the worst. ⁸ Social affection will never fail: but as for prophecies, they shall be out of use; as for languages, they shall cease; as for knowledge, it shall vanish away. ⁹ for our knowledge is defective, and our prophesying is defective. ¹⁰ but when that which is perfect is come, then that which is defective shall be laid aside. ¹¹ when I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child: but when I became a man, I laid aside my childish ways. ¹² now we do but indirectly see the faint images of things; but then the objects themselves will be before our eyes; now I have a partial knowledge, but then shall I know, even as I myself am known. ¹³ and now faith, hope, social virtue, these three will all remain; but the most permanent of the three is social virtue.

⁸ but above all, let your mutual benevolence be intense, for benevolence cancels a multitude of offences.

¹⁹ let us love him; since he first loved us.

¹⁸ Fear is a stranger to love; for perfect loves excludes all fear: since pain is the object of fear, he that is affected with fear, cannot be sincere in his love.

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God.

²⁵ You husband, love your spouse, even as Christ loved the church, and laid down his life for her:

²⁹ Jesus answer'd him, the first of all the commandments is thus deliver'd, "hear, o Israel, the lord our God is the only lord. ³⁰ you shall therefore love the lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, to the utmost of your understanding, and all your faculties." this is the first commandment. ³¹ and the second, which has an affinity to it, is this: "you shall love your neighbour as yourself." there is no other commandment greater than these.

³⁴ a new commandment I give unto you, "that ye love one another; that you would have the same love for one another as I have had for you." ³⁵ by this mutual love shall all men know that you are my disciples.

¹⁶ for God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him, should not perish, but have eternal life.

¹³ there cannot be greater love than that of a man, who lays down his life for his friends.

⁸ he that has not social affection, does not know God; for God is love.

¹⁴ to all this add love, which is the band of perfect union:

¹⁴ let all your transactions flow from social affections.

⁴ Social affection is patient, is kind; is a stranger to envy; is not insolently vain, nor arrogant: does not behave indecently, ⁵ is not self-interested, is not easily provoked, nor suspects any ill; ⁶ it does not countenance injustice, but smiles upon virtue; ⁷ it excuses all things, believes what is favourable, hopes for the best, and suffers the worst. ⁸ Social affection will never fail: but as for prophecies, they shall be out of use; as for languages, they shall cease; as for knowledge, it shall vanish away.