Love (per Webster's dictionary): A deep and tender feeling of affection for or attachment or devotion to a person or persons. An expression of one's love or affection. A strong liking or interest in something. God's tender regard and concern for mankind. Mankind's devotion to and desire for God as the supreme good. To feel love for. To delight in, take pleasure in. To feel the emotion of love. Affection: suggests warm, tender feeelings, usually not as powerful or as deep as those implied by love.
So I decided that I would look up all the times that LOVE is mentioned in God's Word, it is 551 times. So this is my not so exhaustive selective reference list to remind myself just how much God loves me!
Ex 15:13 "In your unfailing love you will lead the people you have redeemed. In your strength you will guide them to your holy dwelling."
Ex 34:6 "The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin."
Dt 7:9 "Know therefore that the Lord you God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands."
"FOR HE IS GOOD, HIS LOVE ENDURES FOREVER." Mentioned numerous times over and over!
Neh 1:5 "O Lord, God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with those who love him and obey his commnads..."
Neh 9:17 "But you are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love."
Ps 13:5 "But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation."
Ps 23:6 "Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever."
Ps 26:3 "For your love is ever before me, and I will walk continually in your truth."
Ps 31:21 "Praise be to the Lord, for he showed his wonderful love to me."
Ps 32:10 "The Lord's unfailing love surrounds the man who trusts in him."
Ps 33:5 "The Lord loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of his unfailing love."
Ps 36:5 "Your love, O Lord, reachest to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies."
Ps 36:7 "How priceless is your unfailing love!"
Ps 52:8 "I trust in God's unfailing love for ever and ever."
Ps 63:3 "Because your love is better than life..."
Ps 69:16 "Answer me, O Lord, out of the goodness of your love; in your great mercy turn to me."
Ps 86:5 "You are forgiving and good, O Lord, abounding in love to all who call to you."
Ps 89:2 "I wil declare that your love stands firm forever, that you established your faithfulness in heaven itself."
Ps 90:14 "Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days."
Ps 94:18 "When I said, "My foot is slipping," your love, O Lord, supported me."
Ps 98:3 "He has remembered his love and his faithfulness to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God."
Ps 100:5 "For the Lord is good and his love endures forevere; his faithfulness continues through all generations."
Ps 103:1-5 "Praise the Lord, O my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name. Praise the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits- who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases; who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's."
Ps 103:8 "The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love."
Ps 103:11-14,17 "For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him: as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him; for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust...but from everlasting to everlasting the Lord's love is with those who fear him.
Ps 106:45 "For their sake he remembered his covenant and out of his great love he relented."
Ps 107:43 "Whoever is wise, let him heed these things and consider the great love of the Lord.
Ps 108:6 "Save us and hlep us with your right hand, that those you love may be delivered."
Ps 117:1,2 "Praise the Lord, all you nations; extol him, all you peoples. For great is his love toward us, and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever."
Ps 119:41 "May your unfailing love come to me, O Lord, your salvation according to your promise."
Ps 119:64 "The earth is filled with your love, O Lord; teach me your decrees."
Ps 119:76 "May your unfailing love be my comfort."
Ps 119:124 "Deal with your servant according to your love and teach me your decrees."
Ps 119:132 "Turn to me and have merrcy on me, as you always do to those who love your name."
Ps 119:159 'Preserve my life, O Lord, according to your love."
Ps 138:8 "The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your love, O Lord, endures forever-"
Ps 143:8 "Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you."
Ps 143:12 "In your unfailing love, silence my enemies; destroy all my foes, for I am your servant."
Ps 145:8,9 "The Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love. The Lord is good to all; he has compassion on all he has made."
Ps 147:11 "The Lord delights in those who fear him, who put their hope in his unfailing love."
Pr 10:12 "Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers over all wrongs."
Pr 17:9 "He who covers over an offense promotes love..."
Pr 19:22 "What a man desires is unfailing love..."
SS 2:4 "He has taken me to the banquet hall, and his banner over me is love."
SS 8:7 "Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away."
Is 54:10 "Yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed," says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
Jer 31:3 "I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.
La 3:22,23 "Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness."
Da 9:4 "O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with all who love him and obey his commands."
Hos 10:12 "Sow for yourselves righteousness, reap the fruit of unfailing love."
Hos 11:4 "I led them with cords of human kindness, with ties of love..."
Joel 2:13 "Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity."
Jnh 4:2 "I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity."
Zeph 3:17 "The Lord your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing."
Jn 11:3 "Lord, the one you love is sick."
Jn 13:1 "Having loved his own who were in the world, he now showed them the full extent of his love."
Jn 13:34 "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another."
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