The Command to Love
Matthew 22:37-39 — 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 great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
John 13:34-35 — A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
The Nature of Love
John 4:7-8 — A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.)
Luke 6:31 — And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.
Love in Action
Mark 12:31 — The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
John 15:12 — “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
The Command to Love
Matthew 22:37-39 — Jesus said to him, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. The second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
John 13:34-35 — “I give you a new commandment—to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. Everyone will know by this that you are my disciples—if you have love for one another.”
The Nature of Love
John 4:7-8 — A Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me some water to drink.” (For his disciples had gone off into the town to buy supplies.)
Luke 6:31 — Treat others in the same way that you would want them to treat you.
Love in Action
Mark 12:31 — The second is: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
John 15:12 — My commandment is this—to love one another just as I have loved you.
A Story of Love in the Old Testament
Ruth 1:16-17 — But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.”
A Story of Love in the New Testament
John 3:16 — “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.