1/25/2024 0 Comments A bible verse about love“For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you. Give thanks to the God of heaven, for his steadfast love endures forever. For their sake he remembered his covenant, and relented according to the abundance of his steadfast love. Nevertheless, he looked upon their distress, when he heard their cry. Psalm 103:17–18īut the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children’s children, to those who keep his covenant and remember to do his commandments. As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him. For I said, “Steadfast love will be built up forever in the heavens you will establish your faithfulness.” Psalm 103:11–13įor as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us. I will sing of the steadfast love of the Lord, forever with my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.īut you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them. They refused to obey and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. Even I and my father’s house have sinned.” Nehemiah 9:17 Nehemiah 1:5–6Īnd I said, “O Lord God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, let your ear be attentive and your eyes open, to hear the prayer of your servant that I now pray before you day and night for the people of Israel your servants, confessing the sins of the people of Israel, which we have sinned against you. He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing. Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations. The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.” Deuteronomy 4:37–39Īnd because he loved your fathers and chose their offspring after them and brought you out of Egypt with his own presence, by his great power, driving out before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day, know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath there is no other. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. Passages about God’s love for us Exodus 20:5–6 Here are 58 Bible verses about love-not just any love, but the kind of love that God has for us, that he calls us to have for him and other people, and that describe the nature of love itself. We’d like to twist this day a bit (though there’s nothing wrong with hearts, flowers, and chocolate) and turn our eyes heavenward to the One who offers a different, perfect kind of love-and who empowers us to love others in a similar fashion. Soon it will be Valentine’s Day, a day on the greeting card calendar for celebrating romantic (or what the Greeks called eros) love. Facebook Twitter Reddit Pinterest Email LinkedIn
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