1235 verses about Love

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.

And it lords it over the love of parents toward their children, for they punish them for vice; and it domineers over the intimacy of friends, reproving them when wicked.

Be merciful to your people, and be satisfied with the punishment of me on their account.

Now you are not ignorant of the charm of brotherhood, which the Divine and all wise Providence has imparted through fathers to children, and has engendered through the mother’s womb.

and having been brought forth at equal intervals, and having sucked milk from the same springs, hence their brotherly souls are reared up lovingly together;

Brotherly love being thus sympathetically constituted, the seven kindred had a more sympathetic mutual harmony.

For a like ardour for what is right and honorable increased their fellow-feeling towards each other.

For it acting along with religion, made their brotherly feeling more desirable to them.

And yet, although nature and intercourse and virtuous morals increased their brotherly love those who were left endured to behold their kindred, who were ill-used for their religion, tortured even to death.

And more that this, they even urged them on to this ill-treatment; so that they not only despised pains themselves, but they even got the better of their affections of brotherly love.

And consider how comprehensive is the love of offspring, which draws every one to sympathy of affection,

where irrational animals possess a similar sympathy and love for their offspring with men.

And if not able to do this, they fly circling round them in agony of affection, calling out in their own note, and save their offspring in whatever manner they are able.

But sympathy with her children did not turn away the mother of the young men, who had a spirit kindred with that of Abraham.

O reasoning of the sons, lord over the passions, and religion more desirable to a mother than progeny!

The mother, when two things were set before here, religion and the safety of her seven sons for a time, on the conditional promise of a tyrant,

O in what way can I describe ethically the affections of parents toward their children, the resemblance of soul and of form engrafted into the small type of a child in a wonderful manner, especially through the greater sympathy of mothers with the feelings of those born of them!

for by how much mothers are by nature weak in disposition and prolific in offspring, by so much the fonder they are of children.

And of all mothers the mother of the seven was the fondest of children, who in seven childbirths had deeply engendered love toward them;

Not but that, on account of the excellent disposition to the law, her maternal affection toward them was increased.

For they were both just and temperate, and manly, and high-minded, and fond of their kindred, and so fond of their mother that even to death they obeyed her by observing the law.

And yet, though there were so many circumstances connected with love of children to draw on a mother to sympathy, in the case of none of them were the various tortures able to pervert her principle.

O holy nature and parental feeling, and reward of bringing up children, and unconquerable maternal affection!

But religious reasoning, having strengthened her courage in the midst of sufferings, enabled her to forego, for the time, parental love.

Although beholding the destruction of seven children, the noble mother, after one embrace, stripped off her feelings through faith in God.

For just as in a council-room, beholding in her own soul vehement counselors, nature and parentage and love of her children, and the racking of her children,

And not so fierce were the lions round Daniel, nor the furnace of Misael burning with most vehement fires as that natural love of children burned within her, when she saw her seven sons tortured.

Nor, should I die, shall I have a son to bury me. But with such a lament as this the holy and God-fearing mother bewailed none of them.

With these arguments, the mother of seven, exhorting each of her sons, over-persuaded them from transgressing the commandment of God.

Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.

Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,

But I tell you, don’t resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?

Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?

Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent?

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

As he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ Hosea 6:6 for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd.

Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

“Don’t think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword.

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.

He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.

He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. He who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward.

Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”

and say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned for you, and you didn’t lament.’

Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ Hosea 6:6 you wouldn’t have condemned the guiltless.

Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day.”

Peter took him aside, and began to rebuke him, saying, “Far be it from you, Lord! This will never be done to you.”

Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,

“What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray?

If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.

Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.”

Jesus said to him, “I don’t tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven.

and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’ Genesis 2:24

So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”

‘Honor your father and your mother.’ Exodus 20:12-16; Deuteronomy 5:16-20 And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’” Leviticus 19:18

The young man said to him, “All these things I have observed from my youth. What do I still lack?”

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?”