1235 verses about Love

Give alms from your possessions. When you give alms, don’t let your eye be envious. Don’t turn away your face from any poor man, and the face of God won’t be turned away from you.

And now, my child, love your kindred, and don’t scorn your kindred and the sons and the daughters of your people in your heart, to take a wife of them; for in scornfulness is destruction and much trouble, and in naughtiness is decay and great lack; for naughtiness is the mother of famine.

And what you yourself hate, do to no man. Don’t drink wine to drunkenness, and don’t let drunkenness go with you on your way.

The demon will smell it, and flee away, and never come again any more. But when you go near to her, both of you rise up, and cry to God who is merciful. He will save you, and have mercy on you. Don’t be afraid, for she was prepared for you from the beginning; and you will save her, and she will go with you. And I suppose that you will have children with her.” When Tobias heard these things, he loved her, and his soul was strongly joined to her.

“Be comforted, my child. May the Lord of heaven and earth give you favor for this your sorrow. Be comforted, my daughter.”

And now, O Lord, I take not this my sister for lust, but in truth. Command that I may find mercy and grow old with her.”

Blessed are you, because you have made me glad; and it has not happened me as I suspected; but you have dealt with us according to your great mercy.

My father counts the days; and if I wait long, he will be sorely grieved.

“I care about nothing, my child, since I have let you go, the light of my eyes.”

And he said to his daughter, “Honor your father-in-law and your mother-in-law. They are now your parents. Let me hear a good report of you. Then he kissed her. Edna said to Tobias, “May the Lord of heaven restore you, dear brother, and grant to me that I may see your children of my daughter Sarah, that I may rejoice before the Lord. Behold, I commit my daughter to you in special trust. Don’t cause her grief.

Anna ran to him, and fell upon the neck of her son, and said to him, “I have seen you, my child! I am ready to die.” They wept both.

Give thanks to the Lord with goodness, and bless the everlasting King, that his tabernacle may be built in you again with joy, and that he may make glad in you those who are captives, and love in you forever those who are miserable.

All those who hate you are cursed. All those who love you forever will be blessed.

Oh blessed are those who love you. They will rejoice for your peace. Blessed are all those who sorrowed for all your scourges; because they will rejoice for you when they have seen all your glory. They will be made glad forever.

All the nations will bless the Lord, and his people will give thanks to God, and the Lord will exalt his people; and all those who love the Lord God in truth and righteousness will rejoice, showing mercy to our kindred.

The king loved Esther, and she found favor beyond all the other virgins. He put the queen’s crown on her.

For wisdom is a spirit that loves man, And she will not hold a blasphemer guiltless for his lips; Because God bears witness of his reins, And is a true overseer of his heart, And a hearer of his tongue:

They that trust on him will understand truth, And the faithful will abide with him in love; Because grace and mercy are to his chosen.

Therefore will they receive the crown of royal dignity And the diadem of beauty from the Lord’s hand; Because with his right hand will he cover them, And with his arm will he shield them.

Wisdom is radiant and fades not away; And easily is she saw those who love her, And found of those who seek her.

For her true beginning is desire of discipline; And the care for discipline is love of her;

And love of her is observance of her laws; And to give heed to her laws confirmeth incorruption;

Above health and comeliness I loved her, And I chose to have her rather than light, Because her bright shining is never laid to sleep.

Beneficent, loving toward man, Stedfast, sure, free from care, All-powerful, all-surveying, And penetrating through all spirits That are quick of understanding, pure, most subtle:

For nothing does God love save him that dwells with wisdom.

But she reaches from one end of the world to the other with full strength, And ordereth all things graciously.

Her I loved and sought out from my youth, And I sought to take her for my bride, And I became enamoured of her beauty.

She glorifieth her noble birth in that it is given her to live with God, And the Sovereign Lord of all loved her.

For you love all things that are, And abhor none of the things which you did make; For never would you have formed anything if you did hate it.

But you spare all things, because they are your, O Soverign Lord, you lover of men’s lives;

But you did teach your people by such works as these, How that the righteous must be a lover of men; And you did make your sons to be of good hope, Because you give repentance when men have sinned.

For your nature manifested your sweetness toward your children; While that bread, ministering to the desire of the eater, Tempered itself according to every man’s choice.

For in all things, O Lord, you did magnify your people, And you did glorify them and not lightly regard them; Standing by their side in every time and place.

She is with all flesh according to his gift; And he gave her freely to those who love him.

They that fear the Lord will not disobey his words; And those who love him will keep his ways.

They that fear the Lord will seek his good pleasure; And those who love him will be filled with the law.

And he that gives glory to his mother is as one that lays up treasure.

And if he fails in understanding, have patience with him; And dishonor him not while you are in your full strength.

My son, go on with your business in meekness; So will you be beloved of an acceptable man.

Get yourself the love of the congregation; And to a great man bow your head.

Be as a father to the fatherless, And instead of a husband to their mother: So will you be as a son of the Most High, And he will love you more than your mother does.

He that loves her loves life; And those who seek to her early will be filled with gladness.

They that do her service will minister to the Holy One; And those who love her the Lord does love.

Then will she return again the straight way to him, And will gladden him, and reveal to him her secrets.

Let your soul love a wise servant; Defraud him not of liberty.

With all your strength love him that made you; And forsake not his ministers.

Be not lacking to those who weep; And mourn with those who mourn.

Be not slow to visit a sick man; For by such things you will gain love.

Every living creature loves his like, And every man loves his neighbor.

And as a mother shall she meet him, And receive him as a wife married in her virginity.

The Lord hates every abomination; And those who fear him love it not.

Gain trust with your neighbor in his poverty, That in his prosperity you may have gladness: Abide stedfast to him in the time of his affliction, That you may be heir with him in his inheritance.

I will not be ashamed to shelter a friend; And I will not hide myself from his face:

In three things I was beautified, And stood up beautiful before the Lord and men: The concord of kindred, and friendship of neighbors, And a woman and her husband that walk together in agreement.

Love a friend, and keep faith with him: But if you reveal his secrets, You shall not pursue after him;

He that shows mercy will lend to his neighbor; And he that strengthens him with his hand keeps the commandments.

Help your neighbor according to your power, And take heed to yourself that you fall not to the same.

He that loves his son will continue to lay stripes upon him, That he may have joy of him in the end.

Love your own soul, and comfort your heart: And remove sorrow far from you; For sorrow has destroyed many, And there is no profit therein.

Consider your neighbor’s liking by your own; And be discreet in every point.

Rebuke not your neighbor at a banquet of wine, Neither set him at nothing in his mirth: Speak not to him a word of reproach, And press not upon him by asking back a debt.

The eyes of the Lord are upon those who love him, A mighty protection and strong stay, A cover from the hot blast, and a cover from the noonday, A guard from stumbling, and a succour from falling.

And let them know you, as we also have known you, That there is no God but only you, O God.

The beauty of a woman cheers the countenance; And a man desires nothing so much.

Wine and music rejoice the heart; And the love of wisdom is above both.

A friend and a companion never meet amiss; And a wife with her husband is above both.

And he brought out of him a man of mercy, Which found favor in the sight of all flesh; A man beloved of God and men, even Moses, Whose memorial is blessed.

In every work of his he gave thanks to the Holy One Most High with words of glory; With his whole heart he sang praise, And loved him that made him.

Your name reached to the aisles afar off; And for your peace you were beloved.

But the Lord will never forsake his mercy; And he will not destroy any of his works, Nor blot out the posterity of his elect; And the seed of him that loved him he will not take away; And he gave a remnant to Jacob, And to David a root out of him.

Blessed are those who saw you, And those who have been beautified with love; For we also shall surely live.

He has found out all the way of knowledge, and has given it to Jacob his servant, and to Israel that is beloved of him.

And the two elders saw her going in every day, and walking; and they were inflamed with love for her.

And albeit they both were wounded with her love, yet dared not one show another his grief.

And Daniel said, You have remembered me, O God: neither have you forsaken those who love you.

cast them down with the sword of those who love you, and let all that know your name praise you with thanksgiving.

and he gave himself to deliver his people, and to get him an everlasting name;

coming forward as men ought to come that are resolute to repel such things as not even for the natural love of life is it lawful to taste.

But bending toward him, laughing the cruel tyrant to scorn, she spoke thus in the language of her fathers: My son, have pity upon me that carried you nine months in my womb, and gave you suck three years, and nourished and brought you up to this age, and sustained you.

For I am persuaded that he in gentleness and kindness will follow my purpose and treat you with indulgence.

But do you, O king, having informed yourself of these things severally, take thought both for our country and for our race, which is surrounded by foes, according to the gracious kindness with which you receive all.

And he kept Judas always in his presence; he had gained a hearty affection for the man;

A man leaves his own father that brought him up, and his own country, and cleaves to his wife.

and looks upon a lion, and walks in the darkness; and when he has stolen, plundered, and robbed, he brings it to his love.

Wherefore a man loves his wife better than father or mother.

and therewithal the king gaped and gazed upon her with open mouth: if she laughed upon him, he laughed also: but if she took any displeasure at him, he was fain to flatter, that she might be reconciled to him again.

And you did promise, out of love to the people of Israel, that should we fall away from you, and become afflicted, and then come to this house and pray, you would hear our prayer.

we resolved, not with strength of spear, but with gentleness and much humanity, as it were to nurse the inhabitants of Coele-Syria and Phoenicia, and to be their willing benefactors.

thought that they had come to the last moment of their lives, to the end of what they had tremblingly expected. They gave way, therefore, to lamentations and moans: they kissed each other: those nearest of kin to each other hung about one another’s necks: fathers about their sons, mother their daughters: other women held their infants to their breasts, which drew what seemed their last milk.

You⌃ have not as it were forsaken me, but your own selves, says the Lord.

Thus says the Lord Almighty, Have I not prayed you as a father his sons, as a mother her daughters, and a nurse her young babes,

Mother, embrace your children; I will bring them out with gladness like a dove; establish their feet; for I have chosen you, says the Lord.

and him you loved, and to him only you showed the end of the times secretly by night:

and among all the multitudes of peoples you have gotten you one people: and to this people, whom you loved, you gave a law that is approved of all.

And I said, Speak on, my Lord. Then said he to me, You are sore troubled in mind for Israel’s sake: love you that people better than he that made them?

Then said he to me, Just as you can do none of these things that I have spoken of, even so can you not find out my judgement, or the end of the love that I have promised to my people.

But we your people, whom you have called your firstborn, your only begotten, and your fervent lover, are given into their hands.

Take you no indignation at them which are deemed worse than beasts; but love those who have always put their trust in your glory.

For you come far short that you should be able to love my creature more than I. But you have brought yourself full near to the unrighteous. Let this never be.

And it prevails over marriage love, condemning it when transgressing law.