Bible Verses About Love
Love is the word most associated with Christian faith — and also the one most easily reduced to sentiment. These verses push past sentiment. They include some of Jesus's most demanding teachings: not just love for friends and family, but love for strangers, for the difficult, and even for enemies.
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
Not doctrine, not ritual, not political affiliation. Love is the mark by which Christians are to be known.
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
This is the most radical ethical teaching in the Gospels. It has no exceptions.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil.
Love is not a feeling — it is a behavior. Each of these is something love does or refuses to do.
If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
John doesn't soften this. To claim love for God while hating another person is a lie. That's the word he uses.
Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Love as a test: does this action harm my neighbor? If it does, it is not love, whatever else it may be called.
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