Matt 22:37 Jesus replied: "`Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' ........39 And the second is like it: `Love your neighbor as yourself.' (NIV)
Mark 12:30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. 31 The second is this: `Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these." .......33 To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices." (NIV)
Matt 19:19 honor your father and mother,' and `love your neighbor as yourself.'" (NIV)
What hold us together as a community of God and for what purpose? I believe it is the love of God and then the people around us. It is through our ability to love that we can touch the lives of others around us, but our ability to love rested on our deep and true love for God. I can vividly remember two persons that influence my walk with Christ in my early days with the navigators. The leader Allan is a person you could feel the warm and love in his whole being, he pull me closer to Christ without having to do much. The other whom I never get introduced, pull me away from Christ with his lofty holy attitude. If we are to be effective for God, we will need to be transformed,i.e., be Christ like.
Our relationship of love with God:
Matt 6:24 "No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money. (NIV)
Luke 16:13 "No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money." (NIV)
1 Tim 6:10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. ........11 But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness. (NIV)
Heb 13:5 Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you." (NIV)
2 Tim 2:22 Flee the evil desires of youth, and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. (NIV)
1 Cor 2:9 However, as it is written: "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him"-- (NIV)
1 Tim 1:5 The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. (NIV)
Heb 6:10 God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them. (NIV)
James 1:12 Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him. (NIV)
James 2:5 Listen, my dear brothers: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him? ........8 If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, "Love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing right. (NIV)
1 John 5:2 This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. 3 This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, (NIV)
1 John 2:5 But if anyone obeys his word, God's love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him: ........15 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. (NIV)
Our relationship of love with Christ:
John 17:26 I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them." (NIV)
John 15:9 "As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. 10 If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love. ........12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. ........17 This is my command: Love each other. .........19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. (NIV)
Romans 5:5 And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us. ........8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (NIV)
Romans 8:28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. ........35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? ........39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (NIV)
Eph 3:17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge-- that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. (NIV)
Our relationship of love within the community of beliver:
John 13:1 It was just before the Passover Feast. Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now showed them the full extent of his love. ........34 "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." (NIV)
2 Cor 2:4 For I wrote you out of great distress and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to grieve you but to let you know the depth of my love for you. .........8 I urge you, therefore, to reaffirm your love for him. (NIV)
2 Cor 13:11 Finally, brothers, good-by. Aim for perfection, listen to my appeal, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you. ........14 May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. (NIV)
Gal 5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love. .........13 You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love. 14 The entire law is summed up in a single command: "Love your neighbor as yourself." .........22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, (NIV)
Eph 4:2 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. .........15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ. 16 From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work. (NIV)
Eph 5:2 and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. .........25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her .......28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. .........33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. (NIV)
Col 2:2 My purpose is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, (NIV)
Philem 1:5 because I hear about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints. ........7 Your love has given me great joy and encouragement, because you, brother, have refreshed the hearts of the saints. ........9 yet I appeal to you on the basis of love. I then, as Paul-- an old man and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus-- (NIV)
Heb 10:24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. (NIV)
1 Pet 1:8 Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, ........22 Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart. (NIV)
1 Pet 5:14 Greet one another with a kiss of love. Peace to all of you who are in Christ. (NIV)
1 Pet 4:8 Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. (NIV)
1 Pet 3:8 Finally, all of you, live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, love as brothers, be compassionate and humble. ........10 For, "Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech. (NIV)
1 Pet 2:17 Show proper respect to everyone: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king. (NIV)
1 John 3:1 How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. ........10 This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother. 11 This is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. ........14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love remains in death. .........16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. ........17 If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? 18 Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. 23 And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. (NIV)
1 John 4:7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. ........16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. 17 In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him. 18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. 19 We love because he first loved us. 20 If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother. (NIV)
The quality and extend of our love through Christ:
Matt 5:43 "You have heard that it was said, `Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' 44 But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 46 If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? (NIV)
Luke 6:27 "But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, ........32 "If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even `sinners' love those who love them. ........35 But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. (NIV)
1 Cor 8:1 Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. (NIV)
1 Cor 13:1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ........6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ........8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. ........13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. (NIV)
2 Cor 5:14 For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. (NIV)
2 Cor 6:6 in purity, understanding, patience and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love; (NIV)
2 Cor 8:7 But just as you excel in dearly-- in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness and in your love for us-- see that you also excel in this grace of giving. 8 I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it with the earnestness of others. .........24 Therefore show these men the proof of your love and the reason for our pride in you, so that the churches can see it. (NIV)
1 Thes 3: 12 May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you. (NIV)
2 Tim 1:7 For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline. ........13 What you heard from me, keep as the pattern of sound teaching, with faith and love in Christ Jesus. (NIV)
2 Tim 3:3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, ........10 You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, (NIV)
Titus 2:2 Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance. ........4 Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, (NIV)
Titus 3:4 But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, ........15 Everyone with me sends you greetings. Greet those who love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. (NIV)
2 Pet 1:7 and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. ........17 For he received honor and glory from God the Father when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, saying, "This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased." (NIV)
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