Love

“Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”

Then prepare a tasty dish that I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die.”

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her.

And Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she named him Reuben, for she said, “The LORD has seen my affliction. Surely my husband will love me now.”

…but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.

But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children; I do not want to go free,’

Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.

You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born and love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

…but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.

And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.

He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your womb and the produce of your land—your grain, new wine, and oil, the young of your herds and the lambs of your flocks—in the land that He swore to your fathers to give you.

And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

So you also must love the foreigner, since you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

You shall therefore love the LORD your God and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments.

So if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,

For if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you to follow—to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him—

…you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. For the LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.

For I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land that you are entering to possess.

…and that you may love the LORD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

Surely You love the people; all the holy ones are in Your hand, and they sit down at Your feet; each receives Your words—

But be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments, to hold fast to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

Therefore watch yourselves carefully, that you love the LORD your God.

So may all Your enemies perish, O LORD! But may those who love You shine like the sun at its brightest.” And the land had rest for forty years.

Then Samson’s wife came to him, weeping, and said, “You hate me! You do not really love me! You have posed to my people a riddle, but have not explained it to me.” “Look,” he said, “I have not even explained it to my father or mother, so why should I explain it to you?”

Some time later, Samson fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

“How can you say, ‘I love you,’” she asked, “when your heart is not with me? This is the third time you have mocked me and failed to reveal to me the source of your great strength!”

Then Saul ordered his servants, “Speak to David privately and tell him, ‘Behold, the king is pleased with you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore, become his son-in-law.’”

And Jonathan had David reaffirm his vow out of love for him, for Jonathan loved David as he loved himself.

I grieve for you, Jonathan, my brother. You were delightful to me; your love to me was extraordinary, surpassing the love of women.

I grieve for you, Jonathan, my brother. You were delightful to me; your love to me was extraordinary, surpassing the love of women.

After some time, David’s son Amnon fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of David’s son Absalom.

…and he asked Amnon, “Why are you, the son of the king, so depressed morning after morning? Won’t you tell me?” Amnon replied, “I am in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.”

Then Amnon hated Tamar with such intensity that his hatred was greater than the love he previously had. “Get up!” he said to her. “Be gone!”

You love those who hate you and hate those who love you! For you have made it clear today that the commanders and soldiers mean nothing to you. I know today that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead, it would have pleased you!

You love those who hate you and hate those who love you! For you have made it clear today that the commanders and soldiers mean nothing to you. I know today that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead, it would have pleased you!

Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you to set you on the throne of Israel. Because of the LORD’s eternal love for Israel, He has made you king to carry out justice and righteousness.”

These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love.

Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to confront him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, the wrath of the LORD is upon you.

Then I said: “O LORD, God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion with those who love Him and keep His commandments,

All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.

How long, O men, will my honor be maligned? How long will you love vanity and seek after lies? Selah

But let all who take refuge in You rejoice; let them ever shout for joy. May You shelter them, that those who love Your name may rejoice in You.

For the choirmaster. Of David the servant of the LORD, who sang this song to the LORD on the day the LORD had delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love You, O LORD, my strength.

O LORD, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides.

Love the LORD, all His saints. The LORD preserves the faithful, but fully repays the arrogant.

May all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; may those who love Your salvation always say, “The LORD be magnified!”

For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Lilies.” A Maskil of the sons of Korah. A love song. My heart is stirred by a noble theme as I recite my verses to the king; my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer.

You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah

You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.

The descendants of His servants will inherit it, and those who love His name will settle in it.

May all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; may those who love Your salvation always say, “Let God be magnified!”

Hate evil, O you who love the LORD! He preserves the souls of His saints; He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.

He has remembered His love and faithfulness to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

In return for my love they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.

They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

I love the LORD, for He has heard my voice—my appeal for mercy.

I delight in Your commandments because I love them.

I lift up my hands to Your commandments, which I love, and I meditate on Your statutes.

Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.

The double-minded I despise, but Your law I love.

All the wicked on earth You discard like dross; therefore I love Your testimonies.

Therefore I love Your commandments more than gold, even the purest gold.

Turn to me and show me mercy, as You do to those who love Your name.

Consider how I love Your precepts, O LORD; give me life according to Your loving devotion.

I hate and abhor falsehood, but Your law I love.

Abundant peace belongs to those who love Your law; nothing can make them stumble.

I obey Your testimonies and love them greatly.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May those who love you prosper.

He is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer. He is my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.

The LORD preserves all who love Him, but all the wicked He will destroy.

“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?

Do not forsake wisdom, and she will preserve you; love her, and she will guard you.

A loving doe, a graceful fawn—may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.

Come, let us take our fill of love till morning. Let us delight in loving caresses!

I love those who love me, and those who seek me early shall find me.

I love those who love me, and those who seek me early shall find me.

…bestowing wealth on those who love me and making their treasuries full.

But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”

Do not rebuke a mocker, or he will hate you; rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.

Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.

The poor man is hated even by his neighbor, but many are those who love the rich.

A mocker does not love to be reproved, nor will he consult the wise.

Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.

Whoever conceals an offense promotes love, but he who brings it up separates friends.

Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

Do not love sleep, or you will grow poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of food.

Better an open rebuke than love that is concealed.

…a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.

So I took all this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in God’s hands. Man does not know what lies ahead, whether love or hate.

Their love, their hate, and their envy have already vanished, and they will never again have a share in all that is done under the sun.

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is more delightful than wine.

Take me away with you—let us hurry! May the king bring me to his chambers. We will rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine. It is only right that they adore you.

Tell me, O one I love, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest them at midday? Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your companions?

He has brought me to the house of wine, and his banner over me is love.

Sustain me with raisins; refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love.

O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you by the gazelles and does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.

On my bed at night I sought the one I love; I sought him, but did not find him.

I will arise now and go about the city, through the streets and squares. I will seek the one I love. So I sought him but did not find him.