This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

Synonyms for Love: affection, adoration, devotion, like, attachment, friendship, intimacy, respect, amity, amour, appreciation, emotion, feeling, fondness, idolatry, inclination, involvement, passion, regard, relish, taste, tenderness, adulation, allegiance, ardour – UK, ardor – US, and case

Proverbs 3:12 (ESV)
for the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.

Proverbs 3:12 (ESV)
for the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.

Proverbs 4:5-6 (ESV)
Get wisdom; get insight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth. 6. Do not forsake her, and she will keep you; love her, and she will guard you.

Proverbs 8:17 (ESV)
I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.

Proverbs 8:19-21 (ESV)
My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold, and my yield than choice silver. 20. I walk in the way of righteousness, in the paths of justice, 21. granting an inheritance to those who love me, and filling their treasuries.

Proverbs 8:35-36 (ESV)
For whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the Lord, 36. but he who fails to find me injures himself; all who hate me love death.”

Proverbs 9:8 (ESV)
Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you.

Proverbs 10:12 (ESV)
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

Proverbs 12:1 (ESV)
Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

Proverbs 13:24 (ESV)
Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.

Proverbs 15:9 (ESV)
The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but he loves him who pursues righteousness.

Proverbs 15:12 (ESV)
A scoffer does not like to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

Proverbs 15:17 (ESV)
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.

Proverbs 16:13 (ESV)
Righteous lips are the delight of a king, and he loves him who speaks what is right.

Proverbs 17:9 (ESV)
Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.

Proverbs 17:17 (ESV)
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Proverbs 17:19 (ESV)
Whoever loves transgression loves strife; he who makes his door high seeks destruction.

Proverbs 18:21 (ESV)
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

Proverbs 19:8 (ESV)
Whoever gets sense loves his own soul; he who keeps understanding will discover good.

Proverbs 20:13 (ESV)
Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.

Proverbs 21:17 (ESV)
Whoever loves pleasure will be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.

Proverbs 21:21 (ESV)
Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness will find life, righteousness, and honor.

Proverbs 22:11 (ESV)
He who loves purity of heart, and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend.

Proverbs 27:5 (ESV)
Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

Proverbs 29:3 (ESV)
He who loves wisdom makes his father glad, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

Ecclesiastes 3:8 (ESV)
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

Zephaniah 3:17 (ESV)
The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.

Zechariah 8:17 (ESV)
do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these things I hate, declares the Lord .”

Matthew 5:43-44 (ESV)
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44. But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

Matthew 5:46 (ESV)
For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

Matthew 6:5-6 (ESV)
“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 6. But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Matthew 10:37 (ESV)
Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Matthew 19:19 (ESV)
Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Matthew 22:37-39 (ESV)
And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38. This is the great and first commandment. 39. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Mark 10:21 (ESV)
And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

John 3:16-17 (ESV)
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

John 3:19 (ESV)
And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.

John 10:17-18 (ESV)
For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again. 18. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.”

John 12:25-26 (ESV)
Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. 26. If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

John 13:34-35 (ESV)
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

John 14:23 (ESV)
Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

John 14:24 (ESV)
Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me.

John 14:28 (ESV)
You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

John 15:9-10 (ESV)
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. 10. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.

John 15:12-13 (ESV)
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

John 15:18-19 (ESV)
“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. 19. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

John 16:27 (ESV)
for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

John 17:23 (ESV)
I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.

John 17:25-26 (ESV)
O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me. 26. I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

Romans 5:5 (ESV)
and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

Romans 5:8-9 (ESV)
but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.

Romans 8:28 (ESV)
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Romans 8:37-38 (ESV)
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,

Romans 12:9 (ESV)
Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

Romans 12:10 (ESV)
Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

Romans 13:8 (ESV)
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Romans 13:9 (ESV)
For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Romans 13:10 (ESV)
Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Romans 15:30 (ESV)
I appeal to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf,

1 Corinthians 2:9 (ESV)
But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”—

1 Corinthians 8:3 (ESV)
But if anyone loves God, he is known by God.

2 Corinthians 5:14-15 (ESV)
For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; 15. and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.

Galatians 2:20 (ESV)
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Galatians 5:14-15 (ESV)
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 15. But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.

Galatians 5:22-24 (ESV)
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23. gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

Ephesians 1:4 (ESV)
even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love

Ephesians 2:4-5 (ESV)
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5. even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

Ephesians 3:17 (ESV)
so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

Ephesians 3:19 (ESV)
and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Ephesians 4:1-2 (ESV)
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, 2. with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

Philippians 1:9 (ESV)
And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment,

Philippians 2:1-2 (ESV)
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, 2. complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.

Philippians 4:8 (ESV)
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

1 Thessalonians 5:8 (ESV)
But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.

2 Thessalonians 2:16 (ESV)
Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

2 Thessalonians 3:5 (ESV)
May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.

2 Timothy 1:7 (ESV)
for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

1 John 4:19 (ESV)
We love because he first loved us.

1 John 4:20 (ESV)
If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

1 John 5:2 (ESV)
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.

2 John 1:5 (ESV)
And now I ask you, dear lady—not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another.

2 John 1:6 (ESV)
And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.

Jude 1:20-21 (ESV)
But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, 21. keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.

Revelation 1:5 (ESV)
and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood

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