Love to God
34 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
29 sections
- A Characteristic of Saints
- Better than all Sacrifices
- Commanded
- Exhibited by Christ
- Exhort One Another To
- God Tries the Sincerity of
- God, Faithful to Those Who Have
- Hypocrites, Without
- Perfected in Obedience
- Perfected, Gives Boldness
- Persevere In
- Pray For
- Produced by Answers to Prayer
- Produced by The Holy Spirit
- Produced by The Love of God to Us
- Promises Connected With
- should Produce Hatred of Sin
- should Produce Joy
- should Produce Love to Saints
- should Produce Obedience to God
- The First Great Commandment
- The Love of the World is a Proof of not Having
- The Uncharitable, Without
- They Who Have are Delivered by Him
- They Who Have are Known of Him
- They Who Have are Preserved by Him
- They Who Have: Have all Things Working for Their Good
- They Who Have: Partake of his Mercy
- They Who Love not Others, are Without
A Characteristic of Saints
- Psalm 5:11 But let all who take refuge in You rejoice; let them ever shout for joy. May You shelter them, that those who love Your name may rejoice in You.
Better than all Sacrifices
- Mark 12:33 and to love Him with all your heart and with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself. This is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
Commanded
- Deuteronomy 11:1 You shall therefore love the LORD your God and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments.
- Joshua 22:5 But be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments, to hold fast to Him, and to serve Him with all …
Exhibited by Christ
- John 14:31 But I do exactly what the Father has commanded Me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up! Let us go on from here.
Exhort One Another To
- Psalm 31:23 Love the LORD, all His saints. The LORD preserves the faithful, but fully repays the arrogant.
God Tries the Sincerity of
- Deuteronomy 13:3 you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. For the LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
God, Faithful to Those Who Have
- Deuteronomy 7:9 Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.
Hypocrites, Without
- Luke 11:42 Woe to you Pharisees! For you pay tithes of mint, rue, and every herb, but you disregard justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without neglecting the former.
- John 5:42 but I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.
Perfected in Obedience
- 1 John 2:5 But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him:
Perfected, Gives Boldness
- 1 John 4:17–18 In this way, love has been perfected among us, so that we may have confidence on the day of judgment; for in this world we are just like Him. …
Persevere In
- Jude 21 keep yourselves in the love of God as you await the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you eternal life.
Pray For
- 2 Thessalonians 3:5 May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance.
Produced by Answers to Prayer
- Psalm 116:1 I love the LORD, for He has heard my voice — my appeal for mercy.
Produced by The Holy Spirit
- Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
- 2 Thessalonians 3:5 May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance.
Produced by The Love of God to Us
- 1 John 4:19 We love because He first loved us.
Promises Connected With
- Deuteronomy 11:13–15 So if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul, …
- Psalm 69:36 The descendants of His servants will inherit it, and those who love His name will settle in it.
- Isaiah 56:6–7 And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD to minister to Him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be His servants — all who keep the Sabbath without profaning it and who hold fast to My covenant— …
- James 1:12 Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.
should Produce Hatred of Sin
- Psalm 97:10 Hate evil, O you who love the LORD! He preserves the souls of His saints; He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
should Produce Joy
- Psalm 5:11 But let all who take refuge in You rejoice; let them ever shout for joy. May You shelter them, that those who love Your name may rejoice in You.
should Produce Love to Saints
- 1 John 5:1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves those born of Him.
should Produce Obedience to God
- Deuteronomy 30:20 and that you may love the LORD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
- 1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,
The First Great Commandment
- Matthew 22:38 This is the first and greatest commandment.
The Love of the World is a Proof of not Having
- 1 John 2:15 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
The Uncharitable, Without
- 1 John 3:17 If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him?
They Who Have are Delivered by Him
- Psalm 91:14 “Because he loves Me, I will deliver him; because he knows My name, I will protect him.
They Who Have are Known of Him
- 1 Corinthians 8:3 But the one who loves God is known by God.
They Who Have are Preserved by Him
- Psalm 145:20 The LORD preserves all who love Him, but all the wicked He will destroy.
They Who Have: Have all Things Working for Their Good
- Romans 8:28 And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.
They Who Have: Partake of his Mercy
- Exodus 20:6 but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
- Deuteronomy 7:9 Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.
They Who Love not Others, are Without
- 1 John 4:20 If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
Related topics
LoveLove to God with all the HeartLove of Man for God
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.