LOVE #9
LOVE OF MAN FOR GOD: 
Ex. 20:6. Shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and
keep my commandments. Deut. 5:10.
Dent. 6:5. And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine
heart, and with all thy soul, and with. all thy might.
Deut. 7:9. Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the
faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that
love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations.
Deut. 10:12. What doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to
fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him,
and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy
soul.
Deut. 11:1. Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep
his charge, and his statutes.
Deut. 13:3. The LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye
love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your
soul.
Deut. 30:6. The LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the
heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart,
and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. vs. 16,20.
Josh. 22:5. Take diligent heed to . . . love the LORD your God,
and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to
cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with
all your soul. Deut. 11:1,13,22.
Josh. 23:11. Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye
love the LORD your God. 
Psa. 18:1. I will love thee, 0 LORD, my strength.
Psa. 31:23. O love the LORD, all ye his saints.
Psa. 37:4. Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give
thee the desires of thine heart.
Psa. 45:10. Forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;
11. So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy
Lord; and worship thou him. See Song of Solomon.
Psa. 63:5. My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness;
and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips: 6. When I
remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night
watches.
Psa. 69:35. For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of
Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession. 36.
The seed also of his servants shall inherit it and they that love
his name shall dwell therein.
Psa. 73:25. Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none
upon earth that I desire beside thee. 26. My flesh and my heart
faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for
ever.
Psa. 91:14. Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will
I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my
name.
Psa. 97:10. Ye that love the LORD, hate evil.
Psa. 116:1. I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and
my supplications. 
Psa. 145:20. The LORD preserveth all them that love him.
Prov. 8:17. I love them that love me; and those that seek me
early shall find me. 
Prov. 23:26. My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes
observe my ways.
Isa. 56:6. The sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the
LoRD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LoRD, to be his
servants, every one that keepeth the Sabbath from poll uting it,
and taketh hold of my covenant. 7. Even them will I bring to my
holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their
burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine
altar. 
Jer. 2:2. Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith
the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of
thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in
a land that was not sown. 3. Israel was holiness unto the LORD,
and the firstfruits of his increase.
Mark 12:29. Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments
is, Hear, G Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: 30. And thou
shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy
soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is
the first commandment. 32. And the scribe said unto him, Well,
Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there
is none other but he. 33. To love him with all the heart, and
with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all
the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than
all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. Matt. 22:37,38.
Luke 11:42. Ye tithe mint and rue, and all manner of herbs, and
pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have
done, and not to leave the other undone.
John 5:42. But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in
you.
Rom. 5:5. And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is
shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto
us.
Rom. 828. And we know that all things work together for good to
them that love God.
1 Cor. 8:3. But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
Phil. 1:9. I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in
knowledge and in all judgment.
2 Thess. 3:5. The Lord direct your hearts into the love of God,
and into the patient waiting for Christ.
2 Tim. 1:7. God bath not given us the spirit of fear; but of
power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
1 John 2:5. Whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of
God perfected hereby know we that we are in him. 15. If any man
love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1 John 3:17. Whoso bath this world's good, and seeth his brother
have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how
dwelleth the love of God in him? 18. My little children, let us
not love in word (only) neither in tongue (only); but in deed and
in truth.
LOVE OF MAN FOR JESUS
1 John 4:12. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his
love is perfected in us. 16. We have known and believed the love
that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love
dwelleth in God, and God in him. 17. Herein is our love made
perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment:
because as he is, so are we in this world. 18. There is no fear
in love; but perfect love casteth out fear because fear hath
torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. 19. We love
him, because he first loved us. 20. 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? 21. And this commandment have we from him, That he who
loveth God love his brother also.
1 John 5:1. Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is
born(begotten) of God: and every one that loveth him that begat
loveth him also that is begotten of him. 2. By this we know that
we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his
commandments. 3. For this is the love of God, that we keep his
commandments.
2 John 6. This is love, that we walk after his commandments.
Jude 21. Keep yourselves in the love of God.
Matt. 10:37. He that loveth father or mother more than me is not
worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is
not worthy of me. v. 38.
Matt. 25:34. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand,
Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom .prepared for
you from the foundation of the world 35. For I was an hungred,
and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a
stranger, and ye took me in: 36. Naked, and ye clothed me: I was
sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
37. Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw
we thee an hungred, and fed thee ? or thirsty, and gave thee
drink? 38. When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or
naked, and clothed thee? 39. Or when saw we thee sick, or in
prison, and came unto thee? 40. And the King shall answer and say
unto them, Verily say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto
one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Matt. 27:55. And many women were there beholding afar off, which
followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him: 56. Among
which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses,
and the mother of Zebedee's children. 57. When the even was come,
there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also
himself was Jesus' disciple: 58. He went to Pilate, and begged
the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be
delivered. 59. And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it
in a clean linen cloth, 60. And laid it in his own new tomb,
which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to
the door of the sepulchre, and departed. 61. And there was Mary
Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the
sepulchre.
Mark 9:41. Whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my
name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he
shall not lose his reward.
Luke 2:29. Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace,
according to thy word: 30. For mine eyes have seen thy salvation.
Luke 7:47. Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved
much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.
John 8:42. Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye
would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither
came I of myself, but he sent me.
John 14:15. If ye love me, keep my commandments. 21. He that hath
my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and
he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love
him, and will manifest myself to him. 23. If a man love me, he
will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come
unto him. and make our abode with him. 28. . . . If ye loved me,
ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father.
John 15:9. As the Father hath loved me, so have 1 loved you;
continue ye in my love. 
John 16:27. The Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved
me.
John 17:26. And I have declared unto them thy name, and will
declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in
them, and I in them.
John 21:17. Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I
love thee.
Acts 21:13. I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at
Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
1 Cor. 16:22. If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him
be Anathema Maranatha.
2 Cor. 5:8. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be
absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. [v. 6.]
14. The love of Christ constraineth us, because we thus judge,
that if one died for all, I then were as dead: 15. And that he
died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live
unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose
again. [I R. V. therefore all died;] 
Gal. 5:6. In Jesus Christ neither circumcsion availeth any thing,
nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love. 22. The
fruit of the Spirit is love.
Gal. 6:14. God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of
our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me,
and I unto the world.
Eph. 3:17. That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that
ye, being rooted and grounded in love, 18. May be able to
comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and
depth, and height; 19. And to know the love of Christ, which
passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness
of God.
Eph. 4:15. Speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in
all things, which is the head, even Christ.
Eph. 6:24. Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ
in sincerity. 
Phil. 1:9. I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in
knowledge and in all judgment.
Phil. 1:23. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to
depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: vs. 20,21.
Phil. 3:7. What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for
Christ. 8. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the
excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I
have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung,
that I may win Christ.
Col. 1:8. Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.
2 Thess. 3:5. The Lord direct your hearts into the love of God,
and into the patient waiting for Christ.[1 R. V. patience of]
2 Tim. 1:13. Hold fast the form of sound words, . . . in faith
and love which is in Christ Jesus.
2 Tim. 4:8. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of
righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me
at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love
his appeasing.
Philem. 5. Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward
the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints.
Heb. 6:10. God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour
of love, which ye have spewed toward his name, in that ye have
ministered to the saints, and do minister.
Jas. 1:12. Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when
he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord
hath promised to them that love him.
Jas. 2:5. Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the
poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which
he hath promised to them that love him?
1 Pet. 1:8. Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye
see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and
full of glory.
1 Pet. 2:7. Unto you therefore which believe he is precious.
Rev. 2:4. Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou
hast left thy first love.
INSTANCES OF LOVE FOR JESUS: Mary, Matt. 26:6-13; John 12:3-8;
Luke 10:39. Peter, Matt. 17:4; John 13:37; 18:10; 20:3-6; 21:7.
Thomas, John 11:16. The disciples, Mark 16:10; Luke 24:17-41;
John 20:20. Mary Magdalene and other disciples.
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To be continued