You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
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The selection is broader than romantic love. First Corinthians 13, for example, sits inside a letter about life in a church community.
Read 1 Corinthians 12–14 around the familiar love chapter to see why Paul wrote it.
How to use these passages
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“‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.
Read Leviticus 19 →Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.
Read Psalm 136 →Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”
Read Matthew 22 →For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Read John 3 →“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Read John 15 →Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good. In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor prefer one another, not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord, rejoicing in hope, enduring in troubles, continuing steadfastly in prayer, contributing to the needs of the saints, and given to hospitality.
Read Romans 12 →Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.
Read 1 Corinthians 13 →Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
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