PERPETUAL, HABITUAL, INTENTIONAL LOVE
RECOGNIZED FOR LOVE
I know your deeds—your loveG26, your faith, your service, your perseverance—and your latter deeds are greater than your first. Revelation 2:19 2:19 The believers in Thyatira were a busy lot! They were involved in sacrificial ministry for the sake of…
FIRST LOVE MUST BE FOREMOST
I know your deeds, your labor, and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate those who are evil, and you have tested and exposed as liars those who falsely claim to be apostles. Without growing weary, you have persevered…
STAND FIRM IN THE LOVE OF GOD
But you, belovedG27, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keepG5083 yourselves in the loveG26 of God as you await the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you eternal life.…
MAY LOVE BE MULTIPLIED
Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James, To those who are called, lovedG25 by God the Father, and kept in Jesus Christ: Mercy, peace, and loveG26 be multipliedG4129 to you. Jude 1:1-2 Jude identifies himself as…
LIFESTYLE OF LOVE
And now I urge you, dear lady—not as a new commandment to you, but one we have had from the beginning—that we loveG25 one another. And this is loveG26, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the very…
GOD’S SACRIFICIAL VICTORIOUS LOVE
OVERCOMING THE WORLD
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who lovesG25 the Father also lovesG25 those born of Him. By this we know that we loveG25 the children of God: when we loveG25 God…
LOVER OR LIAR?
If anyone says, “I loveG25 God,” but hatesG3404 his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not loveG25 his brother, whom he has seen, cannot loveG25 God, whom he has not seen. And we have this commandment from…
HE FIRST LOVED US
We loveG25 because He first lovedG25 us. 1 John 4:19 All human love is preceded and generated by the love of God. Vincent’s Word Studies The only reason we have the capacity to love is because God loved us first.…