"...love covers all sins" (Prov. 10:12)
“...and his banner over me is love” (Song of Songs 2:4)
"...for love is strong as death; jealousy is as fierce as hell; its arrows are arrows of fire; it is a very strong flame. Great waters cannot extinguish love, and rivers will not flood it. If someone gave all the wealth of the house his for love, he would be rejected with contempt." (Song of Songs 8:6-7)
“Above all, have fervent love for one another, for love covers a multitude of sins.” (1 Pet. 4:8)
“We know love in this, that He laid down His life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.” (1 John 3:16)
"... because love is from God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, because God is love. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because in fear there is torment. He who fears is not perfect in love" (1 John 4:7-8,18)
“Now this is love, that we walk according to His commandments” (2 John 6)
“Let love be unfeigned...” (Rom. 12:9)
“Love does no harm to one’s neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law” Rom. 13:10)
"...love edifies" (1 Cor. 8:1)
“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, then I am a ringing brass or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries, and have all knowledge and all faith, so that I can move mountains, and not If I have love, I am nothing. And if I give away all my possessions and give my body to be burned, but do not have love, it does me no good.” (1 Cor. 13:1-3)
“Love is long-suffering, kind, love does not envy, love does not boast, is not proud, does not act rudely, does not seek its own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil, does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; it bears all things, it believes all things, it hopes all things, it endures all things. "Love never ceases, although prophecies will cease, and tongues will be silent, and knowledge will be abolished." (1 Cor. 13:4-8)
“And now these three remain: faith, hope, love; but the greatest of these is love.” (1 Cor. 13:13)
“The fruit of the Spirit is love...” (Gal. 5:22)
“Above all else put on love, which is the sum of perfection” (Col. 3:14)
“May the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ” (2 Thess. 3:5)
“The goal of exhortation is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and unfeigned faith” (1 Tim. 1:5)
"...you have left your first love" (Rev. 2:4)
“Let everything you do be done with love” (1 Cor. 16:14)
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, you also must love one another” (John 13:34)
"...love one another continually with a sincere heart" (1 Peter 1:22)
“Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her” (Eph. 5:25; Col. 3:19)
“You have heard that it was said: love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I say to you: love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who use you and persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father in heaven, for He commands His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward will you have?” (Matt. 43:46)
"...to love Him with all your heart and with all your mind and with all your soul and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself" (Mark 12:33)
“... let us love not in word or tongue, but in deed and in truth” (1 John 3:18)
The word “love” today can be understood in different ways.
For example:
- love to motherland
- love for a pet
- love for mom
- love for wife or husband, child
We say “love”, and sometimes we express by this we mean a different attitude towards someone or something.
What is true love?
If we ask a person, then depending on his views, age, age, we will get many options, but which opinion should we choose to say - “now I know”?
We will be able to spend enough time discussing these issues. I suggest you ask God.
Let's turn to Holy Scripture, to the Epistle to the Corinthians:
4 Love is patient and kind, love does not envy, love does not boast, it is not proud,
5 He does not behave unruly, does not seek his own, is not easily provoked, does not think evil,
6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices in the truth;
7 He bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails, although prophecies cease, and tongues are silent, and knowledge is abolished.
(1 Cor. 13:4-8)
In this passage we are given the characteristics of “Love.” We can safely note that love is not just feelings, but actions - deeds.
The Son of God came into this world to show us True Love. Jesus gave us a personal example - showed us what true love does.
Feel free to replace the word “love” with the name “Jesus” in the passage (1 Cor. 13:4-8).
Try re-reading, what happened?
Personally, I myself never looked at these lines as if in a mirror, until a certain moment...
Let's now put our name on the passage and read it again.
I confess to you that when I read to myself, I understand that there is something to strive for.
Jesus showed us love and He wants it to live in you and me.
She did not just exist, but acted as it is written from verses 4 to 8.
9 The love of God for us was revealed in this, that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might receive life through him.
10 This is love, that we did not love God, but He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
(1 John 4:9,10)15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
16 And we knew and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
(1 John 4:15,16)8 But God demonstrates His love for us in this, that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
(Rom.5:8)
I give you a new commandment, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, let you also love one another. By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.
For if you love those who love you, what will be your reward? Don't publicans do the same?
Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles. Sol 24.17
Do not say: “As he did to me, so I will do to him; I will repay a man according to his deeds.”
Just as in water there is face to face, so a person’s heart is to man.
What you hate, don’t do to anyone.
No more love as someone who lays down his life for his friends.
But to you who hear, I say: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.
Love does not harm one's neighbor; So love is the fulfillment of the law.
Bless those who curse you and pray for those who abuse you.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself. Jesus said to him: You answered correctly; do this and you will live.
You have spoken the truth, that there is one and there is no other besides Him; and to love Him with all your heart and with all your mind, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself, is greater than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.
Love consists in our acting according to His commandments. This is the commandment which you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
He who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no temptation in him.
You also love the stranger, for you yourself were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Love consists in our acting according to His commandments.
And those whom He predestined, those He also called, and those He called, them He also justified; and those whom he justified, he also glorified.
Who will accuse God's elect? justifies them.
Most of all, have fervent love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins.
And if I give away all my property and give my body to be burned, but do not have love, it does me no good.
Love never ceases, although prophecy will cease, and tongues will be silent, and knowledge will be abolished. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
And now these three remain: faith, hope, love; but love is the greatest of them all.
Let everything you do be done with love.
For hardly anyone will die for the righteous; maybe someone will decide to die for a benefactor .
Above all, put on love, which is the sum of perfection.
Love is long-suffering, merciful, love does not envy, love is not arrogant, is not proud, is not rude, does not seek its own, is not irritated, does not think evil, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; covers everything, believes everything, hopes everything, endures everything.
Better is a dish of greens, and with it love, than a fattened ox, and with it hatred.
Gen 43:30 ...because it boiled Love to his brother...
2 Samuel 1:26 ... Love yours was for me higher than a woman’s love...
Ps 109:4 ...for Love my they are hostile to me, but I pray;..
Ps 109:5 ...for Love mine is hatred...
Proverbs 10:12 ...but Love covers all sins...
Proverbs 15:17 ...Better is a dish of herbs, and with it Love,..
Proverbs 27:5 ...Better open reproof than hidden Love...
Eccl 9:6 ...and Love their hatred and their jealousy have already disappeared...
Song 2:4 ...and his banner is above me - Love...
Song 8:6 ...for she is strong as death, Love;..
Song 8:7 ...If a man would give all the wealth of his house for Love,..
Jeremiah 2:33 ...How artfully you direct your ways, that you may obtain Love!..
Mal 1:2 ...But you say, what have you shown? Love to us? –..
Matthew 24:12 ...and because iniquity abounds, many will grow cold Love;..
John 13:35 ...if you have Love among themselves...
John 17:26 ...yes Love with which You loved Me will be in them...
1 Peter 4:8 ...Above all things, be diligent Love to each other...
1 Peter 4:8 ...because Love covers a multitude of sins...
2 Peter 1:7 ...in godliness there is brotherly love, in brotherly love Love...
1 John 2:5 ...this is true Love God's fulfillment:..
1 John 3:1 ...Look what Love the Father gave us...
1 John 3:16 ... Love We know this, that He laid down His life for us:...
1 John 3:17 ...as he continues in that Love God?..
1 John 4:7 ...because Love from God,..
1 John 4:8 ...because there is a God Love...
1 John 4:9 ... Love God has revealed itself to us in...
1 John 4:10 ...In that Love that we did not love God...
1 John 4:12 ...and Love His perfection is in us...
1 John 4:16 ...And we knew Love that God has for us...
1 John 4:16 ...There is a God Love,..
1 John 4:17 ... Love reaches such perfection in us...
1 John 4:18 ...but perfect Love drives out fear...
1 John 5:3 ...For this is Love to God...
2 John 1:6 ... Love the same thing is...
Jude 1:2 ...mercy and peace to you and Love let them multiply...
Rom 5:5 ...because Love God's...
Rom 5:8 ...But God is His Love proves to us that..
Rom 12:9 ... Love Yes will unfeigned;..
Rom 13:10 ... Love does not harm his neighbor;...
Rom 13:10 ...so Love there is fulfillment of the law...
1 Corinthians 8:1 ...but knowledge puffs up, but Love edifies...
1 Cor 13:4 ... Love patient, merciful...
1 Cor 13:4 ... Love doesn't envy...
1 Cor 13:4 ... Love is not exalted, is not proud,...
1 Cor 13:8 ... Love never ceases, although the prophecies will cease...
1 Cor 13:13 ...And now these three remain: faith, hope, Love;..
1 Cor 13:13 ...but Love more of them...
1 Cor 16:24 ...and Love mine is with you all in Christ Jesus...
2 Cor 2:4 ...but that you may know Love which I have in abundance for you...
2 Cor 2:8 ...Therefore I ask you to give him Love...
2 Cor 5:14 ...For Love Christ embraces us, reasoning like this:...
2 Cor 13:13 ...and Love God the Father...
Gal 5:22 ...And the fruit of the Spirit: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, goodness,...
Ephesians 3:19 ...and to understand what passes knowledge Love Christ,..
Eph 6:23 ...Peace be to the brethren and Love...
Phil 1:9 ...and I pray that Love yours...
Phil 2:2 ...have the same thoughts, have the same thoughts Love,..
Col 3:14 ...More than anything put on your clothes V Love,..
2 Thessalonians 1:3 ...and multiplies Love each to each other between all of you,..
2 Thessalonians 3:5 ...And may the Lord direct your hearts Love God...
1 Timothy 1:5 ...The purpose of exhortation is Love...
Rev 2:4 ...that you left the first Love yours...
Rev 2:19 ...and Love,..
Wis 6:18 ...but concern for teaching - Love,..
Wis 6:18 ... Love and the keeping of its laws...
Wisdom 16:21 ...For the quality of Your food showed Your Love to the children...
Sir 1:14 ... Love unto the Lord is glorious wisdom...
Sir 9:9 ...it burns like fire Love...
Sir 25:2 ...this is like-mindedness between brothers and Love between neighbors...
Sir 40:20 ...but better than that and another - Love to wisdom...
Sir 44:27 ...who purchased Love in the eyes of all flesh,
One day a man walked into a bookstore. One could read a keen interest in his eyes: books were a part of his life. A few minutes later, the newcomer stopped in confusion in the middle of the hall and, although his gaze still continued to slide along the shelves, surprise and bewilderment were reflected in his entire appearance: where am I? Man first entered the world of Christian literature.
– Are these all books about God? – the visitor was surprised, not believing his eyes.
– Yes, this is a Christian book store. We have no other literature.
– What can you write about Him to write so many books?
– How many books do you think have been written about love? – The seller asked him.
“So, the same, about love-and-and,” the man answered in a singsong voice, shaking his head from side to side.
“The Bible says that God,” said the seller, opening the first epistle of John, chapter 4. – That God is... yes, you can read it yourself, here..., verse eight.
– “He who does not love has not known God, because God is love”
For some time, both the seller and the visitor stood silently in front of the open book, mentally repeating to themselves every word they read.
“You know,” the man finally said, “I’ve never thought about this before!”
- Understand. We all rarely think about this. I advise you to purchase this book. I assure you that in the Bible you will find a lot of interesting and useful knowledge for yourself!
BIBLE ABOUT LOVE
Love is patient, merciful,
Love does not envy, Love does not exalt itself, is not proud,
He does not act outrageously, does not seek his own, is not irritated, does not think evil,
He does not rejoice in untruth, but rejoices in the truth,
Covers everything, believes everything, hopes everything, endures everything,
LOVE NEVER ENDS…
1 Cor 13 chapter
“Our lips are open to you,... our hearts are enlarged.”
(2 Cor 6:11)
“Everyone should not only take care of himself, but of others.”
(Philip 2:4-5)
“I give you a new commandment: love one another! As I have loved you, let you also love one another.”
(John 13:34)
“Above all, have fervent love for one another, for love covers a multitude of sins.”
(1 Peter 4:8)
“Whoever says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, is a liar: for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?”
(1 John 4:20)
“Beloved! Let us love each other, because love is from God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love has not known God, because God is Love.”
(1 John 4:7-8)
“Beloved! If God loved us so much, then we must love each other... If we love each other, then God abides in us, and His perfect Love is in us.”
(1 John 4:11-12)
“God is Love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.”
(1 John 4:16)
“Do not owe anyone anything except... love.”
(Rom 13:8)
“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, then I am sounding brass... If I have the gift of prophecy and know all mysteries, and have all knowledge and all faith, so that I could move mountains, but do not have love, - then I'm nothing. And if I give away all my property and give my body to be burned, but do not have love, it does me no good.
(1 Cor 13:1-8).
“Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who despitefully use you and persecute you...”
(Matt 5:44)
“...If you love (only) those who love you, what is your reward?”
(Matt 5:46)
“... If in your heart you have bitter envy and contentiousness (instead of love), then do not boast and do not lie about the truth: this is not wisdom coming from above, but (“wisdom”)... demonic...”
(James 3:13-15)
“Whoever says that he is in the light, but hates his brother, is still in darkness.”
(1 John 2:9)
“Let love be unfeigned! Turn away from evil, cling to goodness! Be kind to one another with brotherly love!...”
(Rom 12:9-10)
“...Love your neighbor as yourself...”
(Matthew 22:39)
“Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”
(John 15:13)
“... May My joy be in you, and may your joy be complete! This is My commandment: love one another, as I have loved you!”
(John 15:11-12)
“I command you this: love one another!”
