WORDS for your PSYCHE - Part I

Topic: Love

“For the Lord is good. His unfailing love continues forever, and his faithfulness continues to each generation.” (Psalm 100:5 / NLT)

“Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good! His faithful love endures forever. Give thanks to the God of gods. His faithful love endures forever. Give thanks to the Lord of lords. His faithful love endures forever.” (Psalm 136:1-3 / NLT)

“Love wisdom, and she will make you great. Embrace her, and she will bring you honor. She will be your crowning glory.” (Proverbs 4:8-9 / TEV)

“Hate stirs trouble, but love forgives all offenses.” (Proverbs 10:12 / TEV)

“Love prospers when a fault is forgiven but dwelling on it separates close friends.” (Proverbs 17:9 / NLT)

“Kiss me and kiss me again, for your love is sweeter than wine.” (Song of Songs 1:2 / NLT)

“How beautiful you are, my love! How your eyes shine with love behind your veil.” (Song of Songs 4:1 / TEV)

“Your love delights me, my sweetheart and bride. Your love is better than wine; your perfume more fragrant than any spice.” (Song of Songs 4:10 / TEV)

“Can a woman forget her baby who nurses at her breast? Can she withhold compassion from the child she has borne? Even if mothers were to forget, I could never forget you! Look, I have inscribed your name on my palms….” (Isaiah 49:15-16 / NET)

“For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with great compassion I will take you back. In a burst of anger, I turned my face away for a little while. But with everlasting love I will have compassion on you.” (Isaiah 54:7-8 / NLT)

“The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease. Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each morning.” (Lamentations 3:22-23 / NLT)

“For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life.” (John 3:16 / TEV)

“Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain in my love. If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.” (John 15:9-10 / NET)

“My commandment is this – to love one another just as I have loved you.” (John 15:12 / NET)

“No one has greater love than this – that one lays down his life for his friends.” (John 15:13 / NET)

“This I command you – to love one another.” (John 15:17 / NET)

“Who, then, can separate us from the love of Christ? Can trouble do it, or hardship or persecution or hunger or poverty or danger or death? For I am certain that…. there is nothing in all creation that will be able to separate us from the love of God which is ours through Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:35 and 38-39 / TEV)

“Love must be completely sincere.” (Romans 12:9 / TEV)

“If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.” (1 Corinthians 13:1-3 / NLT)

“Love is patient.” (1 Corinthians 13:4 / NET)

“Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up. It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful. It is not glad about injustice, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. ” (1 Corinthians 13:4-7 / NET)

“It (Love) bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.” (1 Corinthians 13:7-8 / NET)

“And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.” (1 Corinthians 13:13 / NET)

“Follow the way of love....” (1 Corinthians 14:1 / NIV ®)

“For you have been called to live in freedom…use your freedom to serve one another in love. For the whole law can be summed up in this command: ’Love your neighbor as yourself.’” (Galatians: 5:13-14 / NLT)

“Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes.” (Ephesians 1:4 / NLT)

“...God is so rich in mercy, and he loved us so much, that even though we were dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead.” (Ephesians 2:4 / NLT)

“…I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on the earth is named. I pray that according to the wealth of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, so that, because you have been rooted and grounded in love, you may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and thus to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.” (Ephesians 3:14-19 / NET)

“You were cleansed from your sins when you obeyed the truth, so now you must show sincere love to each other as brothers and sisters. Love each other deeply with all your heart. For you have been born again, but not to a life that will quickly end. Your new life will last forever because it comes from the eternal, living word of God.” (1 Peter 1:22-23 / NLT)

“This is the message you have heard from the beginning: we should love one another…. let’s not merely say that we love each other; let us show the truth by our actions.” (1 John 3:11 and 18 / NLT)

“Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.” (1 John 4:7-8 / NLT)

“God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect…. Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear.” (1 John 4:16-18 / NLT)

“Love means doing what God has commanded us, and he has commanded us to love one another, just as you heard from the beginning.” (2 John 1:6 / NLT)