God can’t love me more than He does right now, however, I can choose to
love God more than I do right now.
Love is an unconditional commitment to an imperfect person.
Eccles 9:9
Enjoy life with the woman whom you love all the days of your fleeting life
which He has given to you under the sun; for this is your reward in life and
in your toil in which you have labored under the sun.
I Peter 4:8-9 8 Above all, keep fervent in your love for one
another, because love covers a multitude of sins. 9 Be hospitable to one
another without complaint.
Pro. 17: 17 A
friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
I John 4:18-19 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love
casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is
not perfected in love. 19 We love, because He first loved us.
I Corinthians 13:1-13 1 If I speak with the tongues of men
and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a
clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries
and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but
do not have love, I am nothing. 3 And if I give all my possessions to feed
the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it
profits me nothing. 4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love
does not brag and is not arrogant, 5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not
seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,
6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 bears
all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8
Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done
away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will
be done away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part; 10 but when
the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. 11 When I was a child, I
used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I
became a man, I did away with childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror
dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully
just as I also have been fully known 13 But now faith, hope, love, abide
these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Mark 12:30
And 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.
Gal. 5:13-16 13 For you were called to freedom, brethren; only
do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love
serve one another. 14 For the whole Law is fulfilled in one word, in the
statement, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 15 But if you bite
and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another.
16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of
the flesh.
John 13: 34-35 34 “A new commandment I give to you, that you
love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
35 “By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love
for one another.”
Romans 13:10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love
is the fulfillment of the law.
Romans 8:35-39 35 Who will separate us from the love of
Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or
nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 Just as it is written, “For Your sake we
are being put to death all day long; We were considered as sheep to be
slaughtered.” 37 But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through
Him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor
angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor
powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able
to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
John 15:12,13 12 “This
is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. 13
“Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his
friends.
I John 4:18 -21 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love
casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is
not perfected in love. 19 We love, because He first loved us. 20 If someone
says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who
does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not
seen. 21 And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God
should love his brother also.
Col. 3: 14-16 14 Beyond all these things put on love, which is
the perfect bond of unity. 15 Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts,
to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful. 16 Let the
word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and
admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing
with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
Matthew 5:43-47 43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You
shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 “But I say to you,
love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 so that you may
be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on
the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
46 “For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not
even the tax collectors do the same? 47 “If you greet only your brothers,
what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?
Matthew 5: 46-48
46 “For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even
the tax collectors do the same? 47 “If you greet only your brothers, what
more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? 48
“Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
I Tim. 1:5 But
the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience
and a sincere faith.