Relationships

Bible Verses about Relationships

• Jacob loved Rachel. He said, 'I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.'

  Genesis 29:18·Verse page·Read context

• Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, 'Because the LORD has looked at my affliction; for now my husband will love me.'

  Genesis 29:32·Verse page·Read context

• Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive. Jacob loved Rachel. He said, 'I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.'

  Genesis 29:17-18·Verse page·Read context

• Jacob loved Rachel. He said, 'I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.' Laban said, 'It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.'

  Genesis 29:18-19·Verse page·Read context

• Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her. Jacob said to Laban, 'Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.'

  Genesis 29:20-21·Verse page·Read context

• The LORD saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren. Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, 'Because the LORD has looked at my affliction; for now my husband will love me.'

  Genesis 29:31-32·Verse page·Read context

• Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive. Jacob loved Rachel. He said, 'I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.'

  Genesis 29:16-18·Verse page·Read context

• Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive. Jacob loved Rachel. He said, 'I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.' Laban said, 'It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.'

  Genesis 29:17-19·Verse page·Read context

• Laban said, 'It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.' Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her. Jacob said to Laban, 'Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.'

  Genesis 29:19-21·Verse page·Read context

• Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors. His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn't speak peaceably to him.

  Genesis 37:3-4·Verse page·Read context

• Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him?

  1 Corinthians 3:5·Verse page·Read context

• Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ. I fed you with milk, not with solid food, for you weren't yet ready. Indeed, you aren't ready even now, for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men?

  1 Corinthians 3:1·Verse page·Read context

• What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

  1 Corinthians 4:21·Verse page·Read context

• Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,

  1 Corinthians 13:4·Verse page·Read context

• If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing. Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,

  1 Corinthians 13:3·Verse page·Read context

• If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing. Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,

  1 Corinthians 13:2·Verse page·Read context

• If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing. 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;

  1 Corinthians 13:3·Verse page·Read context

• Let all that you do be done in love. Now I beg you, brothers—you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have set themselves to serve the saints—

  1 Corinthians 16:14·Verse page·Read context

• Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong! Let all that you do be done in love. Now I beg you, brothers—you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have set themselves to serve the saints—

  1 Corinthians 16:13·Verse page·Read context

• Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him. For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things. Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ,

  2 Corinthians 2:8·Verse page·Read context

• Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

  2 Corinthians 6:14·Verse page·Read context

• Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children. I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

  2 Corinthians 12:14·Verse page·Read context

• His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn't speak peaceably to him. Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more. He said to them, 'Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:'

  Genesis 37:4-6·Verse page·Read context

• Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their offspring after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt.

  Deuteronomy 4:37·Verse page·Read context

• Hear, Israel: The LORD is our God. The LORD is one. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.

  Deuteronomy 6:4-6·Verse page·Read context

• The LORD didn't set his love on you nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:

  Deuteronomy 7:7·Verse page·Read context

• Know therefore that the LORD your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

  Deuteronomy 7:9·Verse page·Read context

• Now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, to keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command you this day for your good?

  Deuteronomy 10:12-13·Verse page·Read context

• Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love the LORD your God. 'But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you;

  Joshua 23:11-12·Verse page·Read context

• How the mighty have fallen in the middle of the battle! Jonathan was slain on your high places. I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was more wonderful than the love of women. How the mighty have fallen, and the weapons of war have perished!

  2 Samuel 1:25-27·Verse page·Read context

• David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her. She bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. The LORD loved him;

  2 Samuel 12:24·Verse page·Read context

• For we through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision amounts to anything, but faith working through love. You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

  Galatians 5:5·Verse page·Read context

• There is one body and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling,

  Ephesians 4:4·Verse page·Read context

• There is one body and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

  Ephesians 4:4·Verse page·Read context

• Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly and gave himself up for her,

  Ephesians 5:25·Verse page·Read context

• "Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise:

  Ephesians 6:2·Verse page·Read context

• This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

  Philippians 1:9·Verse page·Read context

• This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

  Philippians 1:9·Verse page·Read context

• If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

  Philippians 2:1·Verse page·Read context

• Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let's walk by the same rule. Let's be of the same mind. Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example. For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,

  Philippians 3:16·Verse page·Read context

• We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you have toward all the saints, because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News

  Colossians 1:3·Verse page·Read context

• Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged. Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God. And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

  Colossians 3:21·Verse page·Read context

• We always give thanks to God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers, remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father. We know, brothers loved by God, that you are chosen,

  1 Thessalonians 1:2·Verse page·Read context

• May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

  1 Thessalonians 3:12·Verse page·Read context

• Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you. May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

  1 Thessalonians 3:11·Verse page·Read context

• Therefore he who rejects this doesn't reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you. But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

  1 Thessalonians 4:8·Verse page·Read context

• Therefore he who rejects this doesn't reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you. But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another, for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;

  1 Thessalonians 4:8·Verse page·Read context

• Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,

  2 Thessalonians 1:2·Verse page·Read context

• Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,

  2 Thessalonians 1:1·Verse page·Read context

• Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

  2 Thessalonians 2:16·Verse page·Read context

• May the Lord direct your hearts into God's love and into the perseverance of Christ. Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion and not after the tradition which they received from us. For you know how you ought to imitate us. For we didn't behave ourselves rebelliously among you,

  2 Thessalonians 3:5·Verse page·Read context

• As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine, and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes rather than God's stewardship, which is in faith. But the goal of this command is love from a pure heart, a good conscience, and sincere faith,

  1 Timothy 1:3·Verse page·Read context

• May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,

  2 Timothy 1:16·Verse page·Read context

• This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes. May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,

  2 Timothy 1:15·Verse page·Read context

• Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus, to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day

  2 Timothy 1:1·Verse page·Read context

• That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us. This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes. May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,

  2 Timothy 1:14·Verse page·Read context

• This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes. May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain, but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently and found me

  2 Timothy 1:15·Verse page·Read context

• Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers, hearing of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints,

  Philemon 1:3·Verse page·Read context

• Therefore though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate, yet for love's sake I rather appeal to you, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whom I have become the father of in my chains,

  Philemon 1:8·Verse page·Read context

• Again, "I will put my trust in him." Again, "Behold, here I am with the children whom God has given me."

  Hebrews 2:13·Verse page·Read context

• But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and things that accompany salvation, even though we speak like this. For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them. We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

  Hebrews 6:9·Verse page·Read context

• Let's consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

  Hebrews 10:24·Verse page·Read context

• Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

  1 Peter 1:22·Verse page·Read context

• Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

  1 Peter 3:8·Verse page·Read context

• In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother. For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another—

  1 John 3:10·Verse page·Read context

• By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But whoever has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God's love remain in him?

  1 John 3:16·Verse page·Read context

• Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can't sin, because he is born of God. In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother. For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another—

  1 John 3:9·Verse page·Read context

• Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him. By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But whoever has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God's love remain in him?

  1 John 3:15·Verse page·Read context

• If a man says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn't love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

  1 John 4:20·Verse page·Read context

• There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love. We love him, because he first loved us. If a man says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn't love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

  1 John 4:18·Verse page·Read context

• The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those who know the truth,

  2 John 1:1·Verse page·Read context

• The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those who know the truth, for the truth's sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever:

  2 John 1:1·Verse page·Read context

• Beloved, you do a faithful work in whatever you accomplish for those who are brothers and strangers. They have testified about your love before the assembly. You will do well to send them forward on their journey in a way worthy of God,

  3 John 1:5·Verse page·Read context

• Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you. On earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the middle of the fire. Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their offspring after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt.

  Deuteronomy 4:36-37·Verse page·Read context

• About Benjamin he said, 'The beloved of the LORD will dwell in safety by him. He covers him all day long. He dwells between his shoulders.'

  Deuteronomy 33:12·Verse page·Read context

• One man of you shall chase a thousand; for it is the LORD your God who fights for you, as he spoke to you. Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love the LORD your God. 'But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you;

  Joshua 23:10-12·Verse page·Read context

• Samson's wife wept before him, and said, 'You just hate me, and don't love me. You've told a riddle to the children of my people, and haven't told it to me.' He said to her, 'Behold, I haven't told my father or my mother, so why should I tell you?'

  Judges 14:16·Verse page·Read context

• David came to Saul and stood before him. He loved him greatly; and he became his armor bearer. Saul sent to Jesse, saying, 'Please let David stand before me; for he has found favor in my sight.'

  1 Samuel 16:21-22·Verse page·Read context

• Saul commanded his servants, 'Talk with David secretly, and say, "Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore become the king's son-in-law."'

  1 Samuel 18:22·Verse page·Read context

• Then Amnon hated her with exceedingly great hatred; for the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. Amnon said to her, 'Arise, go away.'

  2 Samuel 13:15·Verse page·Read context

• Blessed is the LORD your God, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel. Because the LORD loved Israel forever, therefore he made you king, to do justice and righteousness.

  1 Kings 10:9·Verse page·Read context

• However, I didn't believe the words until I came and my eyes had seen it. Behold, not even half was told me! Your wisdom and prosperity exceed the fame which I heard. Happy are your men, happy are these your servants who stand continually before you, who hear your wisdom. Blessed is the LORD your God, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel. Because the LORD loved Israel forever, therefore he made you king, to do justice and righteousness.

  1 Kings 10:7-9·Verse page·Read context

• As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem)."

  Genesis 48:7·Verse page·Read context

• As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem)." Israel saw Joseph's sons, and said, "Who are these?"

  Genesis 48:7·Verse page·Read context

• Your offspring, whom you become the father of after them, will be yours. They will be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance. As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem)." Israel saw Joseph's sons, and said, "Who are these?"

  Genesis 48:6·Verse page·Read context

• As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem)." Israel saw Joseph's sons, and said, "Who are these?" Joseph said to his father, "They are my sons, whom God has given me here." He said, "Please bring them to me, and I will bless them."

  Genesis 48:7·Verse page·Read context

• The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother, toward the wife whom he loves, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining,

  Deuteronomy 28:54·Verse page·Read context

• On the fourth day, they got up early in the morning, and he rose up to depart. The young lady's father said to his son-in-law, "Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward you shall go your way."

  Judges 19:5·Verse page·Read context

• Michal, Saul's daughter, loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him. Saul said, "I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him." Therefore Saul said to David, "You shall this day be my son-in-law a second time."

  1 Samuel 18:20·Verse page·Read context

• Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, "Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, captain of your body guard, and honored in your house?

  1 Samuel 22:14·Verse page·Read context

• Now therefore, please listen also to the voice of your servant, and let me set a morsel of bread before you. Eat, that you may have strength when you go on your way."

  1 Samuel 28:22·Verse page·Read context

• Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, "Why do you also go with us? Return, and stay with the king; for you are a foreigner and also an exile. Return to your own place. You came but yesterday, and should I today make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and take your brothers with you. May mercy and truth be with you."

  2 Samuel 15:19·Verse page·Read context

• Therefore I set guards in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places. I set the people by families with their swords, their spears, and their bows. I looked, and rose up and said to the nobles, to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, "Don't be afraid of them! Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses."

  Nehemiah 4:13·Verse page·Read context

• Let them praise the LORD for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!

  Psalms 107:8·Verse page·Read context

• Let them praise the LORD for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!

  Psalms 107:15·Verse page·Read context

• Let them praise the LORD for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!

  Psalms 107:21·Verse page·Read context

• Let them praise the LORD for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds for the children of men!

  Psalms 107:31·Verse page·Read context

• Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her:

  Proverbs 31:28·Verse page·Read context

• Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon; for why should I be as one who is veiled?

  Song of Solomon 1:7·Verse page·Read context

• The fig tree ripens her green figs. The vines are in blossom. They give out their fragrance. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.

  Song of Solomon 2:13·Verse page·Read context

• The watchmen who go about the city found me; "Have you seen him whom my soul loves?"

  Song of Solomon 3:3·Verse page·Read context

• How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, the fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds of spices!

  Song of Solomon 4:10·Verse page·Read context

• How is your beloved better than another beloved, you fairest among women? How is your beloved better than another beloved, that you say so?

  Song of Solomon 5:9·Verse page·Read context

• Come away, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices!

  Song of Solomon 8:14·Verse page·Read context

• The LORD will strike Egypt, striking and healing. They will return to the LORD, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them. In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria; and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians. In that day Israel will be the third with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth.

  Isaiah 19:22·Verse page·Read context

• The watchmen who go about the city found me. They beat me. They bruised me. The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me. I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am lovesick.

  Song of Solomon 5:7·Verse page·Read context

• Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?

  Song of Solomon 6:1·Verse page·Read context

• Return, return, Shulammite! Return, return, that we may gaze at you. Lover Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite, as at the dance of Mahanaim?

  Song of Solomon 6:13·Verse page·Read context

• My dove, my perfect one, is unique. She is her mother's only daughter. She is the favorite one of her who bore her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed. The queens and the concubines saw her, and they praised her.

  Song of Solomon 6:9·Verse page·Read context

• There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, and virgins without number. My dove, my perfect one, is unique. She is her mother's only daughter. She is the favorite one of her who bore her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed. The queens and the concubines saw her, and they praised her.

  Song of Solomon 6:8·Verse page·Read context

• "But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham my friend, you whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and called from its corners, and said to you, 'You are my servant. I have chosen you and have not cast you away.'

  Isaiah 41:8·Verse page·Read context

• The LORD's word came to me, saying, "Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, 'The LORD says, "I remember for you the kindness of your youth, your love as a bride, how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. Israel was holiness to the LORD, the first fruits of his increase. All who devour him will be held guilty. Evil will come on them,'" says the LORD."

  Jeremiah 2:1·Verse page·Read context

• "Say to your brothers, 'My people!' and to your sisters, 'My loved one!'

  Hosea 2:1·Verse page·Read context

• Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that the LORD, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph."

  Amos 5:15·Verse page·Read context

• Don't trust in a neighbor. Don't put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!

  Micah 7:5·Verse page·Read context

• The best of them is like a brier. The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, even your visitation, has come; now is the time of their confusion. Don't trust in a neighbor. Don't put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!

  Micah 7:4·Verse page·Read context

• Yes, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek the LORD of Armies in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of the LORD."

  Zechariah 8:22·Verse page·Read context

• The LORD of Armies says: "The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah joy, gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace." The LORD of Armies says: "Many peoples and the inhabitants of many cities will yet come. The inhabitants of one will go to another, saying, 'Let's go speedily to entreat the favor of the LORD, and to seek the LORD of Armies. I will go also.'

  Zechariah 8:19·Verse page·Read context

• "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.'

  Matthew 5:43·Verse page·Read context

• One said to him, "Behold, your mother and your brothers stand outside, seeking to speak to you."

  Matthew 12:47·Verse page·Read context

• Then Peter came and said to him, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?"

  Matthew 18:21·Verse page·Read context

• 'Honor your father and your mother.' And, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'"

  Matthew 19:19·Verse page·Read context

• Jesus said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.'

  Matthew 22:37·Verse page·Read context

• A second likewise is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'

  Matthew 22:39·Verse page·Read context

• 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.'

  Matthew 22:37·Verse page·Read context

• A second likewise is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments." Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question,

  Matthew 22:39·Verse page·Read context

• Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, "One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross."

  Mark 10:21·Verse page·Read context

• Therefore still having one, his beloved son, he sent him last to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.'

  Mark 12:6·Verse page·Read context

• The second is like this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."

  Mark 12:31·Verse page·Read context

• The second is like this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these." The scribe said to him, "Truly, teacher, you have said well that he is one, and there is none other but he;

  Mark 12:31·Verse page·Read context

• The scribe said to him, "Truly, teacher, you have said well that he is one, and there is none other but he; and to love him with all the heart, with all the understanding, all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."

  Mark 12:32·Verse page·Read context

• Jesus answered, "The greatest is: 'Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.' This is the first commandment. The second is like this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."

  Mark 12:29·Verse page·Read context

• The second is like this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these." The scribe said to him, "Truly, teacher, you have said well that he is one, and there is none other but he; and to love him with all the heart, with all the understanding, all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."

  Mark 12:31·Verse page·Read context

• When they saw him, they were astonished; and his mother said to him, "Son, why have you treated us this way? Behold, your father and I were anxiously looking for you."

  Luke 2:48·Verse page·Read context

• All who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers. When they saw him, they were astonished; and his mother said to him, "Son, why have you treated us this way? Behold, your father and I were anxiously looking for you."

  Luke 2:47·Verse page·Read context

• When they saw him, they were astonished; and his mother said to him, "Son, why have you treated us this way? Behold, your father and I were anxiously looking for you." He said to them, "Why were you looking for me? Didn't you know that I must be in my Father's house?"

  Luke 2:48·Verse page·Read context

• After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the middle of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions. All who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers. When they saw him, they were astonished; and his mother said to him, "Son, why have you treated us this way? Behold, your father and I were anxiously looking for you."

  Luke 2:46·Verse page·Read context

• "But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

  Luke 6:27·Verse page·Read context

• Woe, when men speak well of you, for their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets. "But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

  Luke 6:26·Verse page·Read context

• Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep. Woe, when men speak well of you, for their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets. "But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

  Luke 6:25·Verse page·Read context

• When they couldn't pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?"

  Luke 7:42·Verse page·Read context

• Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But one to whom little is forgiven, loves little."

  Luke 7:47·Verse page·Read context

• When they couldn't pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?" Simon answered, "He, I suppose, to whom he forgave the most." He said to him, "You have judged correctly."

  Luke 7:42·Verse page·Read context

• "A certain lender had two debtors. The one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. When they couldn't pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?" Simon answered, "He, I suppose, to whom he forgave the most." He said to him, "You have judged correctly."

  Luke 7:41·Verse page·Read context

• While he was still coming, the demon threw him down and convulsed him violently. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father. They were all astonished at the majesty of God. But while all were marveling at all the things which Jesus did, he said to his disciples,

  Luke 9:42·Verse page·Read context

• Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" He said to him, "What is written in the law? How do you read it?" He answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself."

  Luke 10:25·Verse page·Read context

• "Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing. He called one of the servants to him and asked what was going on. He said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy.'

  Luke 15:25·Verse page·Read context

• The lord of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.'

  Luke 20:13·Verse page·Read context

• The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand. One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won't see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."

  John 3:35·Verse page·Read context

• By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."

  John 13:35·Verse page·Read context

• Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,

  John 13:1·Verse page·Read context

• A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."

  John 13:34·Verse page·Read context

• By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus answered, "Where I am going, you can't follow now, but you will follow afterwards."

  John 13:35·Verse page·Read context

• Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came from God and was going to God,

  John 13:1·Verse page·Read context

• Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going, you can't come,' so now I tell you. A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."

  John 13:33·Verse page·Read context

• A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus answered, "Where I am going, you can't follow now, but you will follow afterwards."

  John 13:34·Verse page·Read context

• By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus answered, "Where I am going, you can't follow now, but you will follow afterwards." Peter said to him, "Lord, why can't I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you."

  John 13:35·Verse page·Read context

• One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him."

  John 14:21·Verse page·Read context

• If you love me, keep my commandments. I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever:

  John 14:15·Verse page·Read context

• One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him." Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?"

  John 14:21·Verse page·Read context

• If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it. If you love me, keep my commandments. I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever:

  John 14:14·Verse page·Read context

• In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him." Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?"

  John 14:20·Verse page·Read context

• In that day you will ask in my name; and I don't say to you that I will pray to the Father for you, for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God. I came from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world and go to the Father."

  John 16:26·Verse page·Read context

• "Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who will believe in me through their word,

  John 17:20·Verse page·Read context

• Righteous Father, the world hasn't known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me. I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them."

  John 17:25·Verse page·Read context

• Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold, your son!"

  John 19:26·Verse page·Read context

• Cretans and Arabians—we hear them speaking in our languages the mighty works of God!"

  Acts 2:11·Verse page·Read context

• Even as it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."

  Romans 9:13·Verse page·Read context

• As he says also in Hosea, "I will call them 'my people,' which were not my people; and her 'beloved,' who was not beloved."

  Romans 9:25·Verse page·Read context

• In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor prefer one another,

  Romans 12:10·Verse page·Read context

• 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,

  Romans 12:10·Verse page·Read context

• If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men. Don't seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God's wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord." Therefore "If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head."

  Romans 12:18·Verse page·Read context

• Now the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus,

  Romans 15:5·Verse page·Read context

• Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God. Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers, and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "Therefore I will give praise to you among the Gentiles and sing to your name."

  Romans 15:7·Verse page·Read context

• Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

  Genesis 2:24·Verse page·Read context

• The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

  Genesis 2:18·Verse page·Read context

• Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God. Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.”

  Ruth 1:16-17·Verse page·Read context

• Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of the LORD. Many waters can’t quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned.

  Song of Solomon 8:6-7·Verse page·Read context

• My beloved is mine, and I am his. He browses among the lilies.

  Song of Solomon 2:16·Verse page·Read context

• Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

  Colossians 3:14·Verse page·Read context

• Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do. Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

  Colossians 3:12-14·Verse page·Read context

• with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love, being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

  Ephesians 4:2-3·Verse page·Read context

• “For this cause a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife. Then the two will become one flesh.” This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and the assembly. Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

  Ephesians 5:31-33·Verse page·Read context

• So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”

  Matthew 19:6·Verse page·Read context

• He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh’? So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”

  Matthew 19:4-6·Verse page·Read context

• What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

  Mark 10:9·Verse page·Read context

• For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife, and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

  Mark 10:7-9·Verse page·Read context

• And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

  1 Peter 4:8·Verse page·Read context

• 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.

  1 John 4:7-8·Verse page·Read context

• No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

  1 John 4:12·Verse page·Read context

• 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;

  1 Corinthians 13:4-6·Verse page·Read context

• Let all that you do be done in love.

  1 Corinthians 16:14·Verse page·Read context

• 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,

  Romans 12:9-10·Verse page·Read context

• Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

  Proverbs 3:3-4·Verse page·Read context

• Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of the LORD.

  Proverbs 18:22·Verse page·Read context

• “This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

  John 15:12·Verse page·Read context

• “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.

  John 15:12-13·Verse page·Read context

• Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

  Hebrews 13:4·Verse page·Read context

• Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up. Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone?

  Ecclesiastes 4:9-11·Verse page·Read context

• If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

  Ecclesiastes 4:12·Verse page·Read context

• Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?

  Amos 3:3·Verse page·Read context

• A Song of Ascents. By Solomon. Unless the LORD builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

  Psalms 127:1·Verse page·Read context

• Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house, your children like olive shoots around your table. Behold, this is how the man who fears the LORD is blessed.

  Psalms 128:3-4·Verse page·Read context

• For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

  Isaiah 62:5·Verse page·Read context

• Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

  Proverbs 5:18·Verse page·Read context

• bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

  1 Corinthians 13:7·Verse page·Read context

• Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

  Ephesians 5:28·Verse page·Read context

• Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

  Ephesians 5:33·Verse page·Read context

• 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.

  1 Corinthians 13:4-7·Verse page·Read context

• I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love, being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

  Ephesians 4:1-3·Verse page·Read context

• Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up. Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone? If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

  Ecclesiastes 4:9-12·Verse page·Read context