The Father himself loves you because you have loved me

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 (NIV)
because the Lord disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in.

Proverbs 4:3 (NIV)
For I too was a son to my father, still tender, and cherished by my mother.

Proverbs 4:5-6 (NIV)
Get wisdom, get understanding; do not forget my words or turn away from them. 6. Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you; love her, and she will watch over you.

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

Proverbs 8:19-21 (NIV)
My fruit is better than fine gold; what I yield surpasses choice silver. 20. I walk in the way of righteousness, along the paths of justice, 21. bestowing a rich inheritance on those who love me and making their treasuries full.

Proverbs 8:35-36 (NIV)
For those who find me find life and receive favor from the Lord . 36. But those who fail to find me harm themselves; all who hate me love death.”

Proverbs 9:8 (NIV)
Do not rebuke mockers or they will hate you; rebuke the wise and they will love you.

Proverbs 10:12 (NIV)
Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs.

Proverbs 12:1 (NIV)
Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but whoever hates correction is stupid.

Proverbs 13:24 (NIV)
Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them.

Proverbs 15:9 (NIV)
The Lord detests the way of the wicked, but he loves those who pursue righteousness.

Proverbs 15:12 (NIV)
Mockers resent correction, so they avoid the wise.

Proverbs 15:17 (NIV)
Better a small serving of vegetables with love than a fattened calf with hatred.

Proverbs 16:13 (NIV)
Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one who speaks what is right.

Proverbs 17:9 (NIV)
Whoever would foster love covers over an offense, but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends.

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

Proverbs 17:19 (NIV)
Whoever loves a quarrel loves sin; whoever builds a high gate invites destruction.

Proverbs 18:21 (NIV)
The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

Proverbs 19:8 (NIV)
The one who gets wisdom loves life; the one who cherishes understanding will soon prosper.

Proverbs 20:13 (NIV)
Do not love sleep or you will grow poor; stay awake and you will have food to spare.

Proverbs 21:17 (NIV)
Whoever loves pleasure will become poor; whoever loves wine and olive oil will never be rich.

Proverbs 21:21 (NIV)
Whoever pursues righteousness and love finds life, prosperity and honor.

Proverbs 22:11 (NIV)
One who loves a pure heart and who speaks with grace will have the king for a friend.

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

Proverbs 29:3 (NIV)
A man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

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

Zephaniah 3:17 (NIV)
The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.”

Zechariah 8:17 (NIV)
do not plot evil against each other, and do not love to swear falsely. I hate all this,” declares the Lord .

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

Matthew 5:46 (NIV)
If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that?

Matthew 6:5-6 (NIV)
“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 6. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

Matthew 10:37 (NIV)
“Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Matthew 19:19 (NIV)
honor your father and mother,’ and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.

Matthew 22:37-39 (NIV)
Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38. This is the first and greatest commandment. 39. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

Mark 10:21 (NIV)
Jesus looked at him and loved him. “One thing you lack,” he said. “Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”

John 3:16-17 (NIV)
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

John 3:19 (NIV)
This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.

John 10:17-18 (NIV)
The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life—only to 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 authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.”

John 12:25-26 (NIV)
Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. 26. Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.

John 13:34-35 (NIV)
“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

John 14:23 (NIV)
Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.

John 14:24 (NIV)
Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.

John 14:28 (NIV)
“You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

John 15:9-10 (NIV)
“As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. 10. If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.

John 15:12-13 (NIV)
My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

John 15:18-19 (NIV)
“If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. 19. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.

John 16:27 (NIV)
No, the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

John 17:23 (NIV)
I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

John 17:25-26 (NIV)
“Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. 26. I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.”

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

Romans 5:8-9 (NIV)
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9. Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him!

Romans 8:28 (NIV)
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

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