What Is This Thing Called Love?
In short GOD is LOVE...
The word love is used 551 times in the NIV bible according to christian bible reference: <http://www.christianbiblereference.org/faq_WordCount.htm>
Love is Unselfish
And now I will show you the most excellent way.
13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient, love is kind, It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrong. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices in the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophecy in part, 10 but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. when I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12 Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part, then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. 13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthian 13:1-13
19 We love because he first loved us. 20 If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.
1John 4:19-21
16 For God so love the world that he gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16
13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:13
Love Your Enemies
43 "You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven, He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
Matthew 5:43-45
30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. 31 The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these.
Mark 12:30-31
34 "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another, 35 By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."
John 13:34-35
15 If you love me, you will obey what I command.
John 14:15
5 Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children
Ephesians 5:1
I love God, I love my family, I love what I do and I love who I am!!!
The word love is used 551 times in the NIV bible according to christian bible reference: <http://www.christianbiblereference.org/faq_WordCount.htm>
Love is Unselfish
And now I will show you the most excellent way.
13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient, love is kind, It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrong. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices in the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophecy in part, 10 but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. when I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12 Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part, then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. 13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthian 13:1-13
19 We love because he first loved us. 20 If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.
1John 4:19-21
16 For God so love the world that he gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16
13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:13
Love Your Enemies
43 "You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven, He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
Matthew 5:43-45
30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. 31 The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these.
Mark 12:30-31
34 "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another, 35 By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."
John 13:34-35
15 If you love me, you will obey what I command.
John 14:15
5 Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children
Ephesians 5:1
I love God, I love my family, I love what I do and I love who I am!!!
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