May the believers ask the Lord what His love is, our concept of love in this culture is not the love of the Bible, it is false emotional love that has little value for reconciling and maintaining relationships.
This worlds love is based on how others can make us feel or enhance our own life. God's love is far deeper than that and completely sacrificial. By sacrificial I mean a willingness to give up something we desire for the sake of another as well as being willing to be rejected to hold out for the greater good for ourselves and others.
Love is not always happy feelings, sometimes it is hard and lonely, until we can see how God is going to work, we must be committed to His principles of Love.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
1 Corinthians 16:14
Let all that you do be done in love.
Mark 12:29-31
Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
Matthew 22:36-40
“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
1 John 4:8
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
John 13:34-35
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Colossians 3:14
And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
John 15:13
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
1 John 4:19
We love because he first loved us.
John 3:16
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
1 John 4:7
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
John 14:15
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
1 Peter 4:8
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
1 Corinthians 131:7
"1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant
5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
1 John 4:18
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
1 Corinthians 13:13
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Luke 6:35
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.
Matthew 5:44-48
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.
Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Ephesians 4:2
With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
1 John 3:18
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
Romans 12:9
Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.
Romans 13:10
Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Romans 12:10
Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
Mark 12:31 The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
Matthew 22:37
And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Matthew 6:24
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
Leviticus 19:18
You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
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