Love — Page 2
Verses 11–20 of 94
1 John 3:16 KJV
“Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.”
Context & Meaning
John connects understanding God's love with imitating it, the cross becomes both the definition and the model for Christian love toward one another.
Ephesians 3:17-19 KJV
“That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.”
Context & Meaning
Paul prays that believers would grasp the four-dimensional greatness of Christ's love, dimensions so vast they surpass human comprehension.
Zephaniah 3:17 KJV
“The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.”
Context & Meaning
This tender portrait of God shows Him not merely tolerating His people but celebrating them with song, a picture of love that delights in its object.
Proverbs 17:17 KJV
“A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.”
Context & Meaning
True love is not fair-weather affection; it remains steadfast through hardship, showing itself most clearly when circumstances are most difficult.
Jeremiah 31:3 KJV
“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.”
Context & Meaning
God declares that His love has no beginning or end, it is everlasting, and that this love is the very force that draws people back to Him.
1 Corinthians 13:1 KJV
“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.”
1 Corinthians 13:2 KJV
“And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.”
1 Corinthians 13:3 KJV
“And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.”
1 Corinthians 13:4 KJV
“Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,”
1 Corinthians 13:5 KJV
“Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;”