Love of Man for God
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Exodus 20:6
but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
Deuteronomy 5:10
but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
Deuteronomy 6:5
And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
Deuteronomy 7:9
Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.
Deuteronomy 10:12
And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
Deuteronomy 11:1, 13, 22
You shall therefore love the LORD your God and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments. / So if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul, / For if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you to follow—to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him—
Deuteronomy 13:3
you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. For the LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deuteronomy 30:6, 16, 20
The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live. / For I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land that you are entering to possess. / and that you may love the LORD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
Joshua 22:5
But be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments, to hold fast to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
Joshua 23:11
Therefore watch yourselves carefully, that you love the LORD your God.
Psalm 18:1
For the choirmaster. Of David the servant of the LORD, who sang this song to the LORD on the day the LORD had delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love You, O LORD, my strength.
Psalm 31:23
Love the LORD, all His saints. The LORD preserves the faithful, but fully repays the arrogant.
Psalm 37:4
Delight yourself in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart.
Psalm 45:10, 11
Listen, O daughter! Consider and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father’s house, / and the king will desire your beauty; bow to him, for he is your lord.
Psalm 63:5, 6
My soul is satisfied as with the richest of foods; with joyful lips my mouth will praise You. / When I remember You on my bed, I think of You through the watches of the night.
Psalm 69:35, 36
For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah, that they may dwell there and possess it. / The descendants of His servants will inherit it, and those who love His name will settle in it.
Psalm 73:25, 26
Whom have I in heaven but You? And on earth I desire no one besides You. / My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Psalm 91:14
“Because he loves Me, I will deliver him; because he knows My name, I will protect him.
Psalm 97:10
Hate evil, O you who love the LORD! He preserves the souls of His saints; He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
Psalm 116:1
I love the LORD, for He has heard my voice—my appeal for mercy.
Psalm 145:20
The LORD preserves all who love Him, but all the wicked He will destroy.
Proverbs 8:17
I love those who love me, and those who seek me early shall find me.
Proverbs 23:26
My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes delight in my ways.
Isaiah 56:6, 7
And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD to minister to Him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be His servants—all who keep the Sabbath without profaning it and who hold fast to My covenant— / I will bring them to My holy mountain and make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on My altar, for My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations.”
Jeremiah 2:2, 3
“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown. / Israel was holy to the LORD, the firstfruits of His harvest. All who devoured her found themselves guilty; disaster came upon them,’” declares the LORD.
Matthew 22:37, 38
Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ / This is the first and greatest commandment.
Mark 12:29, 30, 32, 33
Jesus replied, “This is the most important: ‘Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One. / Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ / “Right, Teacher,” the scribe replied. “You have stated correctly that God is One and there is no other but Him,
Luke 11:42
Woe to you Pharisees! You pay tithes of mint, rue, and every herb, but you disregard justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without neglecting the former.
John 5:42
but I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.
Romans 5:5
And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.
Romans 8:28
And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.
1 Corinthians 8:3
But the one who loves God is known by God.
Philippians 1:9
And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight,
2 Thessalonians 3:5
May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance.
2 Timothy 1:7
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
1 John 2:5, 15
But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him: / Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1 John 3:17, 18
If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him? / Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.
1 John 4:12, 16–21
No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us. / And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him. / And we have this commandment from Him: Whoever loves God must love his brother as well.
1 John 5:1–3
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves those born of Him. / By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His commandments. / For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,
2 John 1:6
And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the very commandment you have heard from the beginning, that you must walk in love.
Jude 1:21
keep yourselves in the love of God as you await the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you eternal life.