Posts Tagged ‘ Love ’
Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.
1 John 2:15-16, NASB
Love your neighbor, but do not desire his things. Love your neighbor, but do not desire her. Love your neighbor, but do not seek authority.
“I, the Lord , search the heart, I test the mind, Even to give to each man according to his ways, According to the results of his deeds.”
Jeremiah 17:10, NASB
God will judge every person: first, on how we each respond to His Son, then by how we respond to others because of His Son.
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:13, ESV
Hope springs from faith.
Faith springs from love.
Love springs from dedication and choice.
Choose love. Always.
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Philippians 2:3, ESV
Do not think of how you will benefit when helping others. Remember, you are serving Christ Himself with each act of kindness, help, and generosity.
Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.
1 John 3:18, NASB
It is not enough to point out sin and correction.
It is not enough to offer platitudes and comments.
We must be WITH people, helping, soothing, and encouraging, without neglecting the sin, the gospel, and nice words.
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.
Ephesians 2:10, NASB
If we call on the Name of Christ, we have work to do. Do not forsake your calling of sharing the gospel and loving on people.
nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:39, NASB
Christ’s sacrifice proves how much God loves us, and when we are found in Christ, we can never be separated from that love.
Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
Colossians 3:1, NASB
All of our power and worth comes from who Christ is: the Son of God, perfect and blameless, who died for our salvation.
Turn to Him in every moment of every day.
Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.
John 15:4, NASB
We are commanded to love God and love people, but it is at best difficult and at worst impossible without continually being consumed by the love of God through Jesus.
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
1 Corinthians 13:1, NASB
We can be the smartest, most eloquent of speakers, but if we are merely trying to prove how much we know, win an argument, or correct all incorrect thinking apart from loving the person or people we are talking to …
… we are only making noise and not glorifying God.
a simple man of God 