We love Him because He first loved us.

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.

And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

Let not mercy and truth forsake you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart, And so find favor and high esteem In the sight of God and man.

But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.

Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness in the morning, For in You do I trust; Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, For I lift up my soul to You.

With all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love.

And above all things have fervent love for one another, for “love will cover a multitude of sins.”

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.

That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love.

This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

Now may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ.

o one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.

If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?