Old
Testament Teaching on Love
Deuteronomy
5:9-10
9
Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy
God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,
10
And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
KJV
Deuteronomy
6:5
And
thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul,
and with all thy might. KJV
Deuteronomy
7:7-9
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:
8
But because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had
sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and
redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of
Egypt.
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. KJV
Deuteronomy
7:13-15
13
And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless
the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and
thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land
which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
14
Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female
barren among you, or among your cattle.
15
And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the
evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon
all them that hate thee. KJV
Deuteronomy
10:12
And
now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord
thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy
God with all thy heart and with all thy soul. KJV
Deuteronomy
11:1
Therefore,
thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and
his judgments, and his commandments, always. KJV
Deuteronomy
11:22
For
if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do
them, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto
him. KJV
Deuteronomy
13:3-4
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.
4
Ye shall walk after the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments,
and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. KJV
Deuteronomy
30:6
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. KJV
Deuteronomy
30:16
In
that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and
to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest
live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither
thou goest to possess it. KJV
Deuteronomy
30:20
That
thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and
that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy
days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers,
to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them. KJV
Joshua
22:5
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. KJV
Joshua
23:11
Take
good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the Lord your God. KJV
Psalms
5:11-12
11
But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for
joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in
thee.
12
For thou, Lord, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as
with a shield. KJV
Psalms
18:1-3
1
I will love thee, O Lord, my strength.
2
The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in
whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
3
I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved
from mine enemies. KJV
Psalms
31:23-24
23
O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord preserveth the faithful, and
plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
24
Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the
Lord. KJV
Psalms
40:16
Let
all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy
salvation say continually, The Lord be magnified. KJV
Psalms
91:14-15
14
Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set
him on high, because he hath known my name.
15
He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I
will deliver him, and honor him. KJV
Psalms
116:1-2
1
I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.
2
Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as
long as I live. KJV
Psalms
119:97
Oh
how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day. KJV
Psalms
119:127-128
127
Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
128
Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I
hate every false way. KJV
Psalms
119:165
Great
peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them. KJV
Psalms
122:6
Pray
for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. KJV
Psalms
145:20
The
Lord preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy. KJV
Proverbs
4:5-8
5
Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of
my mouth.
6
Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep
thee.
7
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting
get understanding.
8
Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honor, when thou
dost embrace her. KJV
Proverbs
8:17
I
love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me. KJV
Proverbs
8:21
That
I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their
treasures. KJV
Proverbs
10:12
Hatred
stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins. KJV
Proverbs
15:17
Better
is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. KJV
Proverbs
17:9
He
that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter
separateth very friends. KJV
Proverbs
18:21
Death
and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the
fruit thereof. KJV
Proverbs
27:5
Open
rebuke is better than secret love. KJV
Song
of Solomon 1:2
Let
him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine. KJV
Song
of Solomon 1:4
Draw
me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will
be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the
upright love thee. KJV
Song
of Solomon 1:15-16
15
Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes.
16
Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green. KJV
Song
of Solomon 2:2
As
the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. KJV
Song
of Solomon 2:4
He
brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love. KJV
Song
of Solomon 2:7
I
charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the
field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please. KJV
Song
of Solomon 2:10
My
beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
KJV
Song
of Solomon 4:7
Thou
art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee. KJV
Song
of Solomon 4:10
How
fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine!
and the smell of thine ointments than all spices! KJV
Song
of Solomon 8:7
Many
waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give
all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned. KJV
Jeremiah
31:3-4
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.
4
Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be rebuilt, O virgin of Israel: thou
shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of
them that make merry. KJV
Micah
6:8
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? KJV
Zephaniah
3:17
The
Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over
thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.
KJV
Psalms
26:8
Lord,
I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honor
dwelleth. KJV
Psalms
78:68
But
chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved. KJV
Isaiah
43:4-5
4
Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have
loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.
5
Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather
thee from the west. KJV
Psalms
36:7
How
excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their
trust under the shadow of thy wings. KJV
Psalms
36:10
Oh
continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to
the upright in heart. KJV
Psalms
40:11
Withhold
not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Lord: let thy lovingkindness and thy
truth continually preserve me. KJV
Psalms
42:8
Yet
the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his
song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life. KJV
Psalms
51:1
Have
mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the
multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. KJV
Psalms
63:3-4
3
Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.
4
Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name. KJV
Psalms
92:2
To
shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night.
KJV
Psalms
103:4
Who
redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and
tender mercies. KJV
Psalms
138:2
I
will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness
and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name. KJV
Jeremiah
9:24
But
let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that
I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in
the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the Lord. KJV
Jeremiah
32:18
Thou
shewest lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the
fathers into the bosom of their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God,
the Lord of hosts, is his name. KJV
Hosea
2:19-20
19
And I will betroth thee unto me forever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in
righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.
20
I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord.
KJV
For God so loved this world that He gave His only begotton Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
God did not send His Son into this world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him would be saved.
The thief (Satan the devil) comes only for to kill, steal and destroy. But Jesus has come to give us life, and life more abundantly, until it overflows.
I urge you to come to the Cross today and receive Jesus as your Savior and Lord. He will wash away all your sins and make you as clean and white as fresh snow.
Just pray this prayer and mean it with your heart:
Dear Lord Jesus (if you are not able to call him Lord yet, then just say "Jesus")
I receive You as my Savior and Lord. I give my life over to You. I believe that You died and rose again, and that if I call on the Name of the Lord I shall be saved.
I accept you into my heart right now, and confess that You are Lord and have risen from the dead and forever live to make intercession for me.
Thank You for washing my heart pure and clean and making me whole, and for giving me peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Thank You that now I am a new creature in Christ Jesus. The old has gone and the new has come.
And there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh (carnality and sin), but walk after the Spirit. In Jesus' Name, Amen.
If you prayed this prayer, I believe you got born again and are now heaven bound and will be with the Lord forever and have eternal life. Your sins are now forgiven. You are accepted in the Beloved.
I would encourage you to find a good Bible based local church to help you grow in your faith, to learn the Word of God, to praise and worship Him, and to have fellowship with the saints.
Serving Christ is the best decision you will ever make.
God bless you!!!
