GOD'S LOVE (IN SCRIPTURE)

      Leviticus 19:34 NKJ
      The stranger who dwells among you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
   
      Deuteronomy 6:5 NKJ
      You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
     
      Deuteronomy 7:9 NKJ
      Therefore know that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments;
     
      Deuteronomy 10:12 NKJ
      "And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
     
      Deuteronomy 11:1 NKJ
      "Therefore you shall love the Lord your God, and keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments always.
     
      Deuteronomy 11:13 NKJ
      'And it shall be that if you earnestly obey My commandments which I command you today, to love the Lord your God and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,
     
      Deuteronomy 11:22 NKJ
      "For if you carefully keep all these commandments which I command you to do--to love the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him--
    
      Deuteronomy 13:3 NKJ
      you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the Lord your God is testing you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
     
      Deuteronomy 19:9 NKJ
      and if you keep all these commandments and do them, which I command you today, to love the Lord your God and to walk always in His ways, then you shall add three more cities for yourself besides these three,
     
      Deuteronomy 30:6 NKJ
      And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
     
      Deuteronomy 30:16 NKJ
      in that I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, that you may live and multiply; and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you go to possess.
     
      Deuteronomy 30:20 NKJ
      that you may love the Lord your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days; and that you may dwell in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them."
     
      Joshua 22:5 NKJ
      But take careful heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments, to hold fast to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul."
     
      Joshua 23:11 NKJ
      Therefore take careful heed to yourselves, that you love the Lord your God.
     
      Nehemiah 1:5 NKJ
      And I said: "I pray, Lord God of heaven, O great and awesome God, You who keep Your covenant and mercy with those who love You and observe {KEEP} Your commandments,
     
      Psalms 45:7 NKJ
      You love righteousness and hate wickedness; Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You With the oil of gladness more than Your companions.
     
      Psalms 70:4 NKJ
      Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; And let those who love Your salvation say continually, "Let God be magnified!"
     
      Ecclesiastes 9:1 NKJ
      For I considered all this in my heart, so that I could declare it all: that the righteous and the wise and their works are in the hand of God. People know neither love nor hatred by anything they see before them.
     
      Ezekiel 16:8 NKJ
      When I passed by you again and looked upon you, indeed your time was the time of love; so I spread My wing over you and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore an oath to you and entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine," says the Lord God.
     
      Daniel 9:4 NKJ
      And I prayed to the Lord my God, and made confession, and said, "O Lord, great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him, and with those who keep {observe} His commandments,

1 John 3:4 (Amplified Bible)

Everyone who commits (practices) sin is guilty of lawlessness; for [that is what] sin is, lawlessness (the breaking, violating of God's law by transgression or neglect--being unrestrained and unregulated by His commands and His will).

1 John 5:3 (King James Version)

 3For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

Matthew 22:37-38 (King James Version)

 37Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

 38This is the first and great commandment.

1 John 4:9-10 (King James Version)

 9In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

 10Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.


Matthew 19:16-19 (King James Version)

 16And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?

 17And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.

 18He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,

 19Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
1 John 4:16 (New King James Version)

16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

Leviticus 19:18 (New King James Version)

18 You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.


Proverbs 17:17 (New King James Version)

17 A friend loves at all times,
      And a brother is born for adversity.


1 John 3:10 (New King James Version)
  
10 In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.


1 Corinthians 13:4-13 (New King James Version)

Love suffers long and is kind;
Love does not envy;
Love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;
Love does not behave rudely, does not seek its own,
Love is not provoked, thinks no evil;
Love does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.  For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.  For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is: LOVE


John 13:12-14 (New King James Version)

So when He had washed their feet, taken His garments, and sat down again, He said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you? You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.

Psalm 119:165-167 (New King James Version)

 Great peace have those who love Your law,
         And nothing causes them to stumble.
 LORD, I hope for Your salvation,
         And I do Your commandments.
 My soul keeps Your testimonies,
         And I love them exceedingly.


Matthew 22:39-40 (King James Version)

 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

Romans 13:9-10 (King James Version)

For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Galatians 5:13-14 (King James Version)

For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.


John 15:12-13 (New King James Version)

This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.

Galatians 2:20 (New King James Version)

I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

 
THERE IS BUT ONE THAT IS 'GOOD' 'HOLY' THAT BE THE 'HOLY' ONE....GOD ETERNAL, FOR GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME

Matthew 19:16-20 (New King James Version)

Jesus Counsels the Rich Young Ruler
  
Now behold, one came and said to Him, “Good Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?”
So He said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”
He said to Him, “Which ones?” (THE TEN COMMANDMENTS--JESUS LISTS EXAMPLES IN RANDOM ORDER #):
Jesus said, “ [#6]‘You shall not murder,’ [#7]‘You shall not commit adultery,’
[#8] ‘You shall not steal,’ [#9]‘You shall not bear false witness,’ 19 [#5] ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, [#5-10]‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”

HE DID NOT LIST #1-4 BUT WE KNOW THEY DEAL WITH OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD AND THAT IS THE GREATEST #1 COMMAND

Philippians 2:1-4 (King James Version)

If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

Proverbs 19:17 (New King James Version)

He who has pity on the poor lends to the LORD,
      And He will pay back what he has given.

Proverbs 11:25 (Amplified Bible)

The liberal person shall be enriched, and he who waters shall himself be watered.

Proverbs 14:21 (New King James Version)

He who despises his neighbor sins;
      But he who has mercy on the poor, happy is he.

Ephesians 4:12 (Amplified Bible)

His intention was the perfecting and the full equipping of the saints (His consecrated people), [that they should do] the work of ministering toward building up Christ's body (the church)

Ephesians 4:16 (Amplified Bible)

For because of Him the whole body (the church, in all its various parts), closely joined and firmly knit together by the joints and ligaments with which it is supplied, when each part [with power adapted to its need] is working properly [in all its functions], grows to full maturity, building itself up in love.

Romans 12:10-11 (Amplified Bible)

Love one another with brotherly affection [as members of one family], giving precedence and showing honor to one another.

Never lag in zeal and in earnest endeavor; be aglow and burning with the Spirit, serving the


Matthew 22:37-40 (Amplified Bible)

And He replied to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind (intellect).

This is the great (most important, principal) and first commandment.

And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as [you do] yourself.

These two commandments sum up and upon them depend all the Law and the Prophets.

Matthew 19:16-19 (Amplified Bible)

And behold, there came a man up to Him, saying, Teacher, what excellent and perfectly and essentially good deed must I do to possess eternal life?

And He said to him, Why do you ask Me about the perfectly and essentially good? There is only One Who is good [perfectly and essentially]--God. If you would enter into the Life, you must continually keep the commandments.

He said to Him, What [a]sort of commandments? [Or, which ones?] And Jesus answered, You shall not kill, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness,

Honor your father and your mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as [you do] yourself.


Romans 12:1 (Amplified Bible)

Romans 12
I APPEAL to you therefore, brethren, and beg of you in view of [all] the mercies of God, to make a decisive dedication of your bodies [presenting all your members and faculties] as a living sacrifice, holy (devoted, consecrated) and well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable (rational, intelligent) service and spiritual worship.

1 Chronicles 28:9 (New King James Version)

“As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a loyal heart and with a willing mind; for the LORD searches all hearts and understands all the intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will cast you off forever.

Hosea 9:1 NKJ
Do not rejoice, O Israel, with joy like other peoples, For you have played the harlot against your God. You have made love for hire on every threshing floor.

Amos 5:15 NKJ
Hate evil, love good; Establish justice in the gate. It may be that the Lord God of hosts Will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

Micah 6:8 NKJ
He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God?

Zephaniah 3:17 NKJ
The Lord your God in your midst, The Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing."

Matthew 6:24 NKJ
"No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

Matthew 22:37 NKJ
Jesus said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.'

Mark 12:30 NKJ
And 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.

Luke 10:27 NKJ
So he answered and said, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,' and 'your neighbor as yourself.' "

Luke 11:42 NKJ
But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass by justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.

Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. (Revelation 14:7 KJV)


Luke 16:13 NKJ
No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon."

John 5:42 NKJ
But I know you, that you do not have the love of God in you.

John 8:42 NKJ
Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me.

Romans 5:5 NKJ
Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

2 Corinthians 13:14 BBE
Bible in Basic English 
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the harmony of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.
        
      Luke 16:13 NKJ
      No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon."
     
      John 5:42 NKJ
      But I know you, that you do not have the love of God in you.
     
      John 8:42 NKJ
      Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me.
     
      Romans 5:5 NKJ
      Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
     
      Romans 5:8 NKJ
      But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
     
      Romans 8:28 NKJ
      And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
     
      Romans 8:39 NKJ
      nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
     
      Romans 15:30 NKJ
      Now I beg you, brethren, through the Lord Jesus Christ, and through the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in prayers to God for me,
     
      1 Corinthians 2:9 NKJ
      But as it is written: "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him."
     
      2 Corinthians 11:11 NKJ
      Why? Because I do not love you? God knows!
     
      2 Corinthians 13:11 NKJ
      Finally, brethren, farewell. Become complete. Be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
     
      2 Corinthians 13:14 NKJ
      The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.
     
      Ephesians 2:4 NKJ
      But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
     
      Ephesians 3:19 NKJ
      to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
     
      Ephesians 5:2 NKJ
      And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.

      Ephesians 6:23 NKJ
      Peace to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
     
      Colossians 2:2 NKJ
      that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, and attaining to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,
     
      1 Thessalonians 1:3 NKJ
      remembering without ceasing your work of faith, labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of our God and Father,
     
      1 Thessalonians 4:9 NKJ
      But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another;
     
      2 Thessalonians 1:3 NKJ
      We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is fitting, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all abounds toward each other,
     
      2 Thessalonians 3:5 NKJ
      Now may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ.
     
      1 Timothy 6:11 NKJ
      But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness.
     
      2 Timothy 1:7 NKJ
      For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

Hebrews 6:10 NKJ
For God is not unjust to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

James 2:5 NKJ
Listen, my beloved brethren: Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?

1 Peter 2:17 NKJ
Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

1 John 2:5 NKJ
But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him.

1 John 3:1 NKJ
Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

1 John 3:10 NKJ
In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.

1 John 3:17 NKJ
But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

1 John 4:7 NKJ
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

1 John 4:8 NKJ
He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

1 John 4:9 NKJ
In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.

1 John 4:10 NKJ
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

1 John 4:11 NKJ
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

1 John 4:12 NKJ
No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.

1 John 4:16 NKJ
And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

1 John 4:20 NKJ
If someone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

1 John 4:21 NKJ
And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.

1 John 5:2 NKJ
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep His commandments.

1 John 5:3 NKJ
For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.

2 John 1:3 NKJ
Grace, mercy, and peace will be with you from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

3 John 1:6 NKJ
who have borne witness of your love before the church. If you send them forward on their journey in a manner worthy of God, you will do well,

Jude 1:21 NKJ
keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.