We Are To Abound In Love

Therefore as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion…  Put on love, which binds [all virtues] all together in perfect unity (Colossians 3:12-14).

You have heard it was said: Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.  But I tell you to love your enemies.  Bless those who curse you.  Do good to those who hate you.  Pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven…  If you love those who love you, what reward will you get?  Are not the tax collectors doing that? (Matthew 5:43-46)

But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies…  Even sinners love only those who love them (Luke 6:32, 37).

But love your enemies.  Do good to them and lend to them without expecting to get anything back.  Then your reward will be great and you will be sons of the Most High God (Luke 6:35).

Be devoted to one another in love… (Romans 12:10)

Show your love for the alien, for you were aliens in Egypt (Deuteronomy 10:19).

Do not love the world, nor the things in the world.  If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him (1 John 2:15).

If there is any consolation of love… make my joy complete by being of the same mind; maintaining the same love… (Philippians 2:1-2)

But speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects… for the whole body … promotes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love (Ephesians 4:15-16).

[Be] hospitable, loving what is good, sensible, just, devout, self-controlled (Titus 1:8).

Teach the older men [who come to you] to be temperate… and sound in faith, in love, and in endurance (Titus 2:2).

Encourage the young women [you care for] to love their husbands and to love their children (Titus 2:4).

That you esteem them very highly in love because of their work (1 Thessalonians 5:13).

Greet one another with a kiss of love… (1 Peter 5:14)

We know that we have passed out of death into life because we love the brethren.  He who does not love abides in death (1 John 3:14).

But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love… (1 Thessalonians 5:8)

Finally, all of you, live in harmony with one another…  Love as brothers… for “whoever would love life and see many good days must keep his tongue from evil…” (1 Peter 3:8, 10)

Since you have, in obedience to the truth, purified your souls for a sincere love for your brothers, fervently love one another from the heart (1 Peter 1:22).

Showing forbearance to one another in love (Ephesians 4:2).

Love the brotherhood (1 Peter 2:17).

And may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another… (1 Thessalonians 3:12)

And let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds (Hebrews 10:24).