In Deuteronomy 6: 4-7 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: and thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
In Psalms 18: 1 I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.
In Song of Solomon 8:7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
In Isaiah 5:1,2 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
In Jeremiah 31:1 At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. Verse 3 The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
In Matthew JESUS said Matthew 19:19 Honour thy father and thy mother: and thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
Matthew 22:37 And Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. In 22:39 And the second is like unto it. Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
In John when Jesus was talking to Nicodemus, John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Jesus went to the homes of his friends. One of them was Lazarus of Bethany and his two sisters, Mary and Martha. Lazarus became sick and died before Jesus arrived. John 11:35-Jesus wept. ( one of the shortest verses in the Bible) verse 36 Then said the Jews, behold how he loved him! Jesus raised Lazarus from the grave.
Jesus told his disciples in John 14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself unto him. Verse 23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him and make our abode with him. Verse 28 Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto my Father: for my Father is greater than I.
John 15:9 As my Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. Verse 10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love: even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. Verses 12,13 this is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Verse 17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.
John 16:27 For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
John 17 The Lord's prayer to his Father in verses 23-26 I in them , and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one: and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
