SCRIPTURES
Walking in Love
Joshua 22:5 NLT
But be very careful to obey all the commands and the law that Moses gave to you. Love the LORD your God, walk in all his ways, obey his commands, be faithful to him, and serve him with all your heart and all your soul."
Psalm 91:14 NLT
The LORD says, "I will rescue those who love me. I will protect those who trust in my name.
Proverbs 10:12 NLT
Hatred stirs up quarrels, but love covers all offenses.
Proverbs 17:9 AMP
He who covers and forgives an offense seeks love, but he who repeats or harps on a matter separates even close friends
Song of Solomon 8:6 – 7 NLT
Place me like a seal over your heart, or like a seal on your arm. For love is as strong as death, and its jealousy is as enduring as the grave. Love flashes like fire, the brightest kind of flame. 7 Many waters cannot quench love; neither can rivers drown it. If a man tried to buy love with everything he owned, his offer would be utterly despised.
John 13:34 – 35 AMP
I give you a new commandment: that you should love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too should love one another.
By this shall all [men] know that you are My disciples, if you love one another [if you keep on showing love among yourselves].
John 15:9 – 10 AMP
I have loved you, [just] as the Father has loved Me; abide in My love [continue in His love with Me]. If you keep My commandments [if you continue to obey My instructions], you will abide in My love and live on in it, just as I have obeyed My Father's commandments and live on in His love.
Romans 5:5 NKJV
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.
Ephesians 3:17 NLT
And I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your hearts as you trust in him. May your roots go down deep into the soil of God's marvellous love.
Philippians 1:9 – 11 NLT
I pray that your love for each other will overflow more and more, and that you will keep on growing in your knowledge and understanding. For I want you to understand what really matters, so that you may live pure and blameless lives until Christ returns. May you always be filled with the fruit of your salvation --those good things that are produced in your life by Jesus Christ--for this will bring much glory and praise to God.
I Thessalonians 3:12 – 13 NIV
May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you. May he strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless and holy in the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy ones.
I Thessalonians 4:9 – 10 NIV
Now about brotherly love we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other. 10And in fact, you do love all the brothers throughout Macedonia. Yet we urge you, brothers, to do so more and more.
I Peter 4:8 NKJV
And above all things have fervent love for one another, for "love will cover a multitude of sins."
I John 2:10 NKJV
He who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.
I John 4:10 – 12 NLT
This is real love. It is not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.
Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other. No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love has been brought to full expression through us.
I John 4:16 – 18 NIV
And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. 17In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him. 18There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
Leviticus 19:18 NLT
Never seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
Proverbs 15:17 NIV
Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred.
Proverbs 27:5 NIV
Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
Song of Solomon 2:4 NIV
He has taken me to the banquet hall, and his banner over me is love.
Romans 8:35 AMP
Who shall ever separate us from Christ's love? Shall suffering and affliction and tribulation? Or calamity and distress? Or persecution or hunger or destitution or peril or sword?
Romans 12:9 – 10 NIV
Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. 10Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves.
Romans 13:10 NLT
Love does no wrong to anyone, so love satisfies all of God's requirements.
I Corinthians 13:4 – 8 NLT
Love is patient and kind.
Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude.
Love does not demand its own way.
Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged.
It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.
Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
Love will last forever, but prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will all disappear.
I Corinthians 13:13 NLT
There are three things that will endure--faith, hope, and love--and the greatest of these is love.
Galatians 5:6 NLT
For when we place our faith in Christ Jesus, it makes no difference to God whether we are circumcised or not circumcised. What is important is faith expressing itself in love.
Ephesians 4:2 NLT
Be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other's faults because of your love.
Ephesians 4:15 AMP
Rather, let our lives lovingly express truth [in all things, speaking truly, dealing truly, living truly]. Enfolded in love, let us grow up in every way and in all things into Him Who is the Head, [even] Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).
Ephesians 5:2 NLT
Live a life filled with love for others, following the example of Christ, who loved you and gave himself as a sacrifice to take away your sins. And God was pleased, because that sacrifice was like sweet perfume to him.
Colossians 3:14 NKJV
But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.
I Timothy 1:5 NKJV
Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith
II Timothy 1:7 KJV
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Hebrews 6:10 NLT
For God is not unfair. He will not forget how hard you have worked for him and how you have shown your love to him by caring for other Christians, as you still do.
Hebrews 13:1 AMP
LET LOVE for your fellow believers continue and be a fixed practice with you [never let it fail].
I John 2:15 AMP
Do not love or cherish the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.
I John 3:18 NLT
Dear children, let us stop just saying we love each other; let us really show it by our actions.
I John 4:7 NIV
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
I Peter 1:22 NIV
Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart.