General References, Love, Old Testament

Exodus 20:6

⁶ And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

Leviticus 19:18

¹⁸ 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 19:34

³⁴ But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 6:5

⁵ And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

Deuteronomy 7:7

⁷ 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:

Deuteronomy 7:9

⁹ Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;

³ Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Deuteronomy 30:6

⁶ And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

Deuteronomy 5:10

¹⁰ And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.

Deuteronomy 10:15

¹⁵ Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.

Deuteronomy 10:19

¹⁹ Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Joshua 22:5

⁵ But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Joshua 23:11

¹¹ Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God.

Nehemiah 1:5

⁵ And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments:

Psalms 63:5

⁵ My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:

Psalms 63:6

⁶ When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.

Psalms 70:4

⁴ Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.

Psalms 109:4

⁴ For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.

Psalms 109:5

⁵ And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

Psalms 122:6

⁶ Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.

Psalms 31:23

²³ O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.

Psalms 119:165

¹⁶⁵ Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.

Psalms 119:167

¹⁶⁷ My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.

Proverbs 4:6

⁶ Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.

Proverbs 9:8

⁸ Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

Proverbs 1:22

²² How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 17:9

⁹ He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

Proverbs 27:5

⁵ Open rebuke is better than secret love.

Proverbs 5:19

¹⁹ Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

Proverbs 7:18

¹⁸ Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.

Proverbs 8:17

¹⁷ I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.

Proverbs 10:12

¹² Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

Proverbs 15:17

¹⁷ Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

Proverbs 20:13

¹³ Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

Isaiah 61:8

⁸ For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

Isaiah 63:9

⁹ In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.

Jeremiah 31:3

³ The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

Ezekiel 33:31

³¹ And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.

Micah 3:2

² Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

Micah 6:8

⁸ He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Zechariah 8:17

¹⁷ And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.

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