Love Flashcards
Mat 22:37
Love God
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.
Mat 22:39
Love others
“And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
1 Jo 4:7-8
Origin of love
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
8 The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
1Jo 4:16
Ontological love
We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
1Jo 4:19
Why we love
We love, because [God] first loved us.
Gal 5:22-23
Source of love
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Ro 5:8
Love demonstrated
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Jo 13:34-35
Love one another
34 “I give you a new commandment - to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
35 By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
1 Co 13:4-5 (WJT)
Love described
4 Love is long-suffering, love is kind and is not envious; love does not brag and is not puffed up,
5 does not act indecently; it does not seek its own benefit, is not easily angered, does not keep a record of wrongs suffered,
1 Co 13:6-7 (WJT)
Love described, pt II
6 does not delight in evil of any kind, but rejoices in the truth;
7 puts up with everything, believes the best in things, always holds out hope, never gives up.
1 Co 13:13
Love supreme
But now faith, hope, and love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
2 Co 5:14-15
Love is in charge
14 For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died;
15 and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf.
Ro 5:5
Means to love
and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
1 Jo 3:14
Proof of eternal life
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love abides in death.
Love is…
long-suffering, kind, not envious, not puffed up, and not easily angered
