Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
1 John 4:8
“Wasn’t it Alexander the Great who had a soldier who bore his name who was unfaithful in duty and demonstrated cowardice? And Alexander called him in and said, “Either change your behavior or change your name.” And I think that’s, in a sense, what John is saying here. If you’re going to call yourself a Christian, if you’re going to say you are God’s and you belong to God and you truly are His, then conduct yourself as He would, with love.” John MacArthur
Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
1 John 3:18
“He not only created you with care but redeemed you in love. And because He gives you both earthly and eternal life, He has a right to work through you as His ambassador, for His glory.” God’s Purpose For Your Life, Charles Stanley
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
1 John 4:7
“No one is beyond the reach of God’s love. Jesus made this clear by saving people like a greedy, dishonest tax collector, a criminal on the cross next to Him, and Saul—a persecutor of His church. God’s love isn’t dispensed according to how good we’ve been. On that basis, no one could be saved.
Divine love can’t be fully comprehended by the human mind, but it can nonetheless be ours through faith in Jesus Christ. And from the moment a person receives that love, he or she will forever live under its protective canopy. ” Charles Stanley
A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
John 13:34
“If there is anything in us, it is not our own; it is a gift of God. But if it is a gift of God, then it is entirely a debt one owes to love, that is, to the law of Christ. And if it is a debt owed to love, then I must serve others with it, not myself.” Martin Luther
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
Romans 8:35
“Your goal in this life is to make sure you spend eternity with Christ. Your love, if it could be more than all the love of the angels, would be only Christ’s due. Look up to Him and show Him your love. Love and live! My counsel is that you come, and leave all else, that you let Christ have your whole heart. Let those who love this present world have it; Christ is the more worthy and noble portion; blessed are those who choose Him.” Letters of Samuel Rutherford, Samuel Rutherford
No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
1 John 4:12
“The Lord wants you to believe that His love for you is steadfast—and that it can ground you in the difficult seasons of life. Are you seeking to grow in your comprehension of His love? The more you dwell on divine grace, the more firmly you’ll stand during trials. Begin by asking God to give you a deeper understanding as you mediate on His love as described in His Word.” Charles Stanley
I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me.
Proverbs 8:17
“When Christianity says that God loves man, it means that God loves man: not that He has some ‘disinterested’ … concern for our welfare, but that, in awful and surprising truth, we are the objects of His love. You asked for a loving God: you have one. The great spirit you so lightly invoked, the ‘lord of terrible aspect’, is present: not a senile benevolence that drowsily wishes you to be happy in your own way, not the cold philanthropy of a conscientious magistrate, nor the care of a host who feels responsible for the comfort of his guests, but the consuming fire Himself, the Love that made the worlds, persistent as the artist’s love for his work and despotic as a man’s love for a dog, provident and venerable as a father’s love for a child, jealous, inexorable, exacting as love between the sexes. How this should be, I do not know: it passes reason to explain why any creatures, not to say creatures such as we, should have a value so prodigious in their Creator’s eyes. It is certainly a burden of glory not only beyond our deserts but also, except in rare moments of grace, beyond our desiring…” The Problem of Pain, CS Lewis
Turn, Lord, and deliver me; save me because of your unfailing love.
Psalms 6:4
“Best of all, He does it all Himself, personally, not delegating the task of love, but humbling Himself to rescue and preserve His most unworthy servant. How shall I love Him enough to serve Him sufficiently? I want to make His name known unto the ends of the earth, but what can my feeble efforts accomplish for Him? Great Shepherd, add to Your mercies this one: a heart to love You more truly as I ought.” Charles Spurgeon
And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.
2 John 1:6
“Live on Christ’s love alone. He seeks to make your heart His throne. It is our loss to divide our limited love. Give it all to Christ. Lay your cares and your burdens upon God; make Him your beloved.” The Letters of Samuel Rutherford, Samuel Rutherford.
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:8
“Weep not for me, but for yourselves. I go to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will, no doubt, through the mediation of his blessed Son, receive me, though a sinner; where I hope we ere long shall meet, to sing the new song, and remain everlastingly happy, world without end. Amen.” John Bunyan
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