Love is certainly the most important of all the commands that we as Christians are to obey; we could even say that it is basic to them all. But the New Testament does not countenance any replacing of law with love.
Douglas Moo

Love for God

Love for God

TOPICAL STUDY

LOVE FOR GOD

EXO 20:6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

DEU 6:5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

DEU 7:9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;

DEU 10:12 And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,

DEU 11:1 Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.

DEU 13:3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

DEU 30:6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

JOS 22:5 But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

JOS 23:11 Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God.

PSA 18:1 I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.

PSA 31:23 O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.

PSA 37:4 Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

PSA 45:10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house;

PSA 45:11 So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.

PSA 63:5 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:

PSA 63:6 When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.

PSA 69:35 For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.

PSA 69:36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.

PSA 73:25 Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.

PSA 73:26 My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

PSA 91:14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.

PSA 97:10 Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.

PSA 116:1 I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.

PSA 145:20 The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.

PRO 8:17 I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.

PRO 23:26 My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

ISA 56:6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;

ISA 56:7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.

JER 2:2 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

JER 2:3 Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.

MAT 10:37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

MAT 25:34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

MAT 25:35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:

MAT 25:36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

MAT 25:37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?

MAT 25:38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?

MAT 25:39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?

MAT 25:40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

MAT 27:55 And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him:

MAT 27:56 Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee’s children.

MAT 27:57 When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus’ disciple:

MAT 27:58 He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.

MAT 27:59 And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,

MAT 27:60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.

MAT 27:61 And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.

MAR 9:41 For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward.

MAR 12:29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:

MAR 12:30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

MAR 12:32 And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he:

MAR 12:33 And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.

LUK 2:29 Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word:

LUK 7:47 Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.

LUK 11:42 But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

JOH 5:42 But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.

JOH 8:42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

JOH 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.

JOH 14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

JOH 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

JOH 14:28 Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.

JOH 15:9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

JOH 16:27 For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.

JOH 17:26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

JOH 21:17 He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.

ACT 21:13 Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

ROM 5:5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

ROM 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

1CO 8:3 But if any man love God, the same is known of him.

1CO 16:22 If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.

2CO 5:8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

2CO 5:14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

2CO 5:15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.

GAL 5:6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.

GAL 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

GAL 6:14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

EPH 3:17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

EPH 3:18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;

EPH 3:19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

EPH 4:15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

EPH 6:24 Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.

PHI 1:9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;

PHI 1:23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:

PHI 3:7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.

PHI 3:8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,

COL 1:8 Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.

2TH 3:5 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.

2TI 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

2TI 1:13 Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

2TI 4:8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

PHM 1:5 Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints;

HEB 6:10 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

JAM 1:12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

JAM 2:5 Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?

1PE 1:8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:

1PE 2:7 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,

1JO 2:5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.

1JO 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

1JO 3:17 But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

1JO 3:18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

1JO 4:12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

1JO 4:16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

1JO 4:17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

1JO 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

1JO 4:19 We love him, because he first loved us.

1JO 4:20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

1JO 4:21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

1JO 5:1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.

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

1JO 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

2JO 1:6 And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.

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

REV 2:4 Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.

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