Love For God

Trust in the LORD with all your heart

God's law is summed up in love.

"Jesus replied: 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments." Matthew 22:37-40

Love for God is shown through keeping His commandments.

"For the love of God is this, that we obey His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome."

I John 5:3

Don't let your love for God weaken.

"Yet there is one thing wrong; you don't love me as at first! Think about those times of your first love (how different now!) and turn back to me again and work as you did before." Revelation 2:4-5

Love & Commandments

The Ten Commandments can be summarized in two overall principles: love toward God (Deuteronomy 6:5) and love toward neighbor (Leviticus 19:18). The first four commandments deal with our relationship with God, and the last six commandments expound on our relationship with fellow man.

Delight yourself also in the LORD, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.

(Psalm 37:4)

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.

(Psalm 91:14)

You who love the LORD, hate evil! He preserves the souls of His saints; He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

(Psalm 97:10)

The LORD preserves all who love Him, But all the wicked He will destroy.

(Psalm 145:20)

He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”

(John 14:21)

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

(Romans 8:28)

We love him, because he first loved us.

-- 1 John 4:19

If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.

-- 1 John 4:20-21

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.

-- 1 John 5:2

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

-- 1 John 5:3