Love, Life and Ministry: A Love Confession

This is most probably the final installment in my Love, Life and Ministry series. Below is a compliation of my favourite love verses, from the bible. I have attempted to put them in a format that is easy to read and that has a logical flow. I hope you are blessed by this!

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A Love Confession:

Your love, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies (Psalm 36:5), your love is better than life (Psalm 63:3), your love is ever before me, and I walk continually in your truth (Psalm 26:3). Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life (Psalm 23:6), because the LORD is good and his love endures forever (Psalm 100:5) and I trust in your unfailing love (Psalm 13:51). Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, and always perseveres. Love never fails (1 Corinthians 13:4-8). It is by this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another (John 13:35). Likewise, greater love has no one than this that he lay down his life for his friends (John 15:13). But, God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8) So, who shall separate us from the love of Christ? (Romans 8:35) For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 8:37-39) So, do everything in love (1 Corinthians 16:14) For Christ’s love compels us (2 Corinthians 5:14) and the only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love (Galatians 5:6), so whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love (1 John 4:8). And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love (1 Corinthians 13:13) and God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son (John 3:16)