Faith Expressions

Love from Paul’s Letters to the Galatians and Ephesians, and from the First Letter of John

Letter of Paul to the Galatians

“But the Spirit produces love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, humility, and self-control.”

(Galatians 5:22-23 / GNT 2017) --- Bible verses about the fruits or gifts of the Holy Spirit

Letter of Paul to the Ephesians

“I pray that you may have your roots and foundation in love, so that you, together with all God’s people, may have the power to understand how broad and long, how high and deep, is Christ’s love. Yes, may you come to know his love – although it can never be fully known – and so be completely be filled with the very nature of God.”

(Ephesians 3:17-19 / GNT 2017) --- Bible verses about the incomprehensible love of Christ

First Letter of John

“Anyone who loves their brother and sister lives in the light, and there is nothing in them to make them stumble. But anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness.”

(1 John 2:10-11 / NIV® 2011) --- Bible verses about the consequences of loving or not loving a brother and a sister

“Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world – the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life – comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.”

(1 John 2:15-17 / NIV® 2011) --- Bible verses about God’s love as a complete opposition to earthly desires

“See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!”

(1 John 3:1 / NIV® 2011) --- Bible verse about an adoptive God and His love for us

“This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister.”

(1 John 3:10 / NIV® 2011) --- Bible verse about love for a brother and sister as a sign of God’s children

“For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.”

(1 John 3:11 / NIV® 2011) --- Bible verse about loving each other

“This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.”

(1 John 3:16 / NIV® 2011) --- Bible verse about love being defined as Christ’s sacrifice on the cross for us

“Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him. And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.”

(1 John 3:21-23 / NIV® 2011) --- Bible verses about what God commands us to do

“Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.”

(1 John 4:7 / CSB 2018) --- Bible verse about God as the source of love

“The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.”

(1 John 4:8 / CSB 2018) --- Bible verse about not knowing love and God

“God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his one and only Son into the world so that we might live through him.”

(1 John 4:9 / CSB 2018) --- Bible verse about God’s expression of love for us through Christ

“Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.”

(1 John 4:10 / CSB 2018)  --- Bible verse about what true love is which is God’s expression of love for us through Christ

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