Happy Valentine's Day!!!!!

What do you think when you think of valentine's day? 

Red hearts? chocolate? the candy on sale the day after? Love? 

The word love is used so much now a'days, that we've almost forgotten what it really means. A man might tell his wife that he loves her, and a few minutes later tell his friend that he loves his new motorcycle. Or that he loves donuts. So, I was reading some of the 'love' verses in the bible, and decided to post them, because I think it's good for us to read these every so often. And the songs at the end always convict me to have a more loving attitude towards the people God brings into my life.

I hope you enjoy this, and hope you had a blessed day!!!!! 

Because of Christ,

EstherGrace

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 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.

 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.

 And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.

 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

 We love him, because he first loved us.

 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

1 John 4:4-21

He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God is love. -1 John 4:8

 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

  As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
   Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
   For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
   Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

-Romans 8:35-39,13:8, 10

 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

 Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.

-Exodus 21:5-6

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

- 1 John 2:15, 3:1

  Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.

  Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.

-Leviticus 19:17-18

Let brotherly love continue.

-Hebrews 13:1

  For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:

 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

-Deuteronomy 7:6-8

     And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

    That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

    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.

    For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

-John 3: 14-17

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

-Galatians 2:20

 I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.

 Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.

-Psalms 116:1-2

The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:

-Psalms 146:8

For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

-Proverbs 3:12

He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

-Proverbs 17:9,17

  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

   Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

   That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

-Galatians 5:22-23, 25-26

And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

-Revelation 1:5, 12:11

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.

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.
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.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

~1 Corinthians 13

Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied. 

    -Jude 1:2

This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

-John 15:12

"Biblical Love is:  An act of the will, accompanied my emotion, that leads to action on behalf of it's object." -Voddie Baucham

    For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

    How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?

   And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!

-Romans 10:13-15

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