Scripture Study about the nature of God
For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.
But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the marketplaces,
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
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.
I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots.
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
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.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.
I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.