Love

God’s love for us is an all-encompassing, unconditional acceptance that surpasses human understanding. It is a love that knows no bounds, forgives our shortcomings and offers redemption without reservation. Understanding the depth of this divine love compels us to love others just as selflessly. Loving others reflects our gratitude for God’s abundant love and recognition of the inherent worth and dignity He has given to each person. We manifest God’s love in our actions by showing mercy, kindness and empathy to those around us. By loving others, we participate in a beautiful cycle of grace, promote unity, heal wounds, and spread the transformative power of God’s love throughout the world.

God’s love for you remains constant, unwavering, and steadfast, even when you stumble and make mistakes, unlike how people may react. His love is boundless, extending far beyond any earthly limits, and no amount of wealth or persuasion can purchase or influence it. He demonstrated the depth of His love by sacrificing His only Son, so that you may experience and revel in His boundless affection and care.

Here are some scriptures that will propel you to display the love of Christ to others.

I give you a new Law. You are to love each other. You must love each other as I have loved you. If you love each other, all men will know you are My followers. John 13:34-35

Be sure your love is true love. Hate what is sinful. Hold on to whatever is good. Love each other as Christian brothers. Show respect for each other. Romans 12:9-10

Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. Colossians 3:12 -13

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 1 John 4:7-8

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16

The Lord came to us from far away, saying, “I have loved you with a love that lasts forever. So I have helped you come to Me with loving-kindness.” Jeremiah 31:3

The Lord your God is with you, a Powerful One Who wins the battle. He will have much joy over you. With His love He will give you new life. He will have joy over you with loud singing. Zephaniah 3:17

This is love! It is not that we loved God but that He loved us. For God sent His Son to pay for our sins with His own blood. 1 John 4:10

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8

He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock, in the land that he swore to your fathers to give you. Deuteronomy 7:13 ESV

The Lord opens the eyes of the blind. The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down; the Lord loves the righteous. Psalm 146:8 ESV

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:4-7 ESV

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 1John 4:16 ESV

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word. 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17