Let Us Abide in Love

Dear friends, let us love one another; for love is of God.  Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.  Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love…  This is love!  Not that we loved God, but He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins (1 John 4:7-10).

And so we have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us.  God is love.  And the one who abides in love abides in God and God in him.  By this, love is perfected within us, that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world.  There is no fear in love.  Perfect love casts out fear because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love.  We love because He first loved us.  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).  And this commandment we have from Him: the one who loves God should love his brother (1 John 4:16-21).

Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins (1 Peter 4:8).

Her many sins have been forgiven, for she loved much.  But he who has been forgiven little, loves little (Luke 7:47).

I remember the devotion of your youth; how as a bride you loved Me and followed Me through the desert… (Jeremiah 2:2)

You have left your first love! (Revelation 2:4)

Do you truly love Me more than these?  …  You know all things; You know that I love You. (John 21:15-17)

Jesus looked at him and loved him… (Mark 10:21)

If anyone loves Me, he will obey My teachings.  My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him (John 14:23).

Whoever keeps [God’s] Word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected! (1 John 2:5)

And though you have not seen Him, you love Him… (1 Peter 1:8)

If anyone loves God, he is known by Him… (1 Corinthians 8:3)

I love You, O Lord my strength (Psalm 18:1).

For God is not unjust so as to forget your … love which you have shown toward His name (Hebrews 6:10).

The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life (John 12:25).

Set an example for the believers in… love (1 Timothy 4:2).

Follow the way of love… (1 Corinthians 14:1)

That their hearts may be encouraged, having been knit together in love… (Colossians 2:2)

Add to your faith… and to brotherly kindness, love (2 Peter 1:5, 7).

Love the Lord, all you His saints! (Psalm 31:23)

Let love of the brotherhood continue (Hebrews 13:1).

Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.  No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and His love is made complete in us (1 John 4:11-12).

The one who loves his brother abides in the light and there is no cause for stumbling in him (1 John 2:10).

We continually remember before our God and Father… your labor prompted by love…  For we know, brothers loved by God, that He has chosen you (1 Thessalonians 1:3-4).

For the love of Christ controls us… (2 Corinthians 5:14)

Do everything in love (1 Corinthians 16:14).

Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance (Jude 1:2).

May 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 13:14).

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