What is Love?

What is biblical love? What the Bible shows us about God and His love.

February 22, 2022

I need to love my God supremely.

"And he [David] said, I will love thee, O LORD, my strength."

Psalm 18:1

February 21, 2022

Men, don't forget your husbandly responsibility.  Love your wife!

"Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them."

Colossians 3:19

February 16, 2022

Jesus wants us to love the unloveable and strive to reach the unreachable-just as He did!

"But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you.  Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you."

Luke 6:27-28

February 15, 2022

The Lord loves His righteous people!

"The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind:  the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down:  the LORD loveth the righteous:  The LORD preserveth the strangers; He relieveth the fatherless and widow:  but the way of the wicked He turneth upside down."

Psalm 146:8-9

February 14, 2022

How should I love others?

"A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.  By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples if ye have love one to another."

John 13:34-35

February 10, 2022

"You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving!" (Amy Charmichael)

"Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver."

2 Corinthians 9:7

February 9, 2022

It's impossible to have a personal relationship with God and not love others!

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

1 John 4:8

February 8, 2022

I love God because I trust Him!

"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."

Psalm 116:1-2

February 4, 2022

"The saved are singled out not by their own merits, but by the grace of the Mediator" [1] (Martin Luther).

"But God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love wherewith He loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved)."

Ephesians 2:4-5

February 3, 2022

God's children love God's Word.

"I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love."

Psalm 119:163