Love, for God

Believers’ response to God’s love

1 John 4:19 LEB

We love, because he first loved us.

See also ; ; ; ;

Love for God is commanded

Matthew 22:37–38 LEB

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 greatest and first commandment.

See also ; ; ; ; ;

Loving God involves loving Jesus Christ

John 8:42 LEB

Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I have come forth from God and have come. For I have not come from myself, but that one sent me.

See also ;

Expressing love for God

Delight in worship and in God’s house

Psalm 27:4 LEB

One thing I have asked from Yahweh; it I will seek: that I may dwell in the house of Yahweh all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Yahweh, and to consider his temple.

See also ; ; ; ; ; ;

Love for God’s word

Psalm 119:97 LEB

How I love your law! The whole day it is my meditation.

See also ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;

Self-sacrifice

Luke 14:33 LEB

In the same way, therefore, every one of you who does not renounce all his own possessions cannot be my disciple.

See also ; ;

Giving

1 Chronicles 29:3 LEB

And moreover, with respect to my provisions for the house of my God I have a treasure of gold and silver that I have given to the house of my God above all that I have provided for the holy house:

See also ; ; ; ; ; ;

Obeying God

1 John 5:3 LEB

For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome,

See also ; ; ; ;

Loving others

1 John 4:21 LEB

And this is the commandment we have from him: that the one who loves God should love his brother also.

See also ; ;

The blessings of loving God

John 14:15–16 LEB

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, in order that he may be with you forever—

See also ; ;

Examples of love for God and Jesus Christ

Psalm 18:1 LEB

And he said: “I love you, O Yahweh, my strength.”

See also ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;