The Love of Christ
36 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
25 sections
- Exemplified Towards: His Apostles
- Exemplified Towards: John
- Exemplified Towards: Lazarus
- Exemplified Towards: Peter
- Illustrated
- Manifested in His: Coming to Seek the Lost
- Manifested in His: Dying for Us
- Manifested in His: Giving Himself for Us
- Manifested in His: Interceding for Us
- Manifested in His: Praying for his Enemies
- Manifested in His: Rebukes and Chastisements
- Manifested in His: Sending the Spirit
- Manifested in His: Washing Away Our Sins
- Obedient Saints Abide In
- Passes Knowledge
- Saints Obtain Victory Through
- To be Imitated
- To his Church
- To Saints, Is: Constraining
- To Saints, Is: Indissoluble
- To Saints, Is: Unchangeable
- To Saints, Is: Unquenchable
- To Saints, Shall be Acknowledge Even by Enemies
- To the Father
- To Those Who Love Him
Exemplified Towards: His Apostles
- John 13:1 It was now just before the Passover Feast, and Jesus knew that His hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the very end.
- John 13:34 A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.
Exemplified Towards: John
- John 13:23 One of His disciples, the one whom Jesus loved, was reclining at His side.
Exemplified Towards: Lazarus
- John 11:5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
- John 11:36 Then the Jews said, “See how He loved him!”
Exemplified Towards: Peter
- Luke 22:32 But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith will not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”
- Luke 22:61 And the Lord turned and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word that the Lord had spoken to him: “Before the rooster crows today, you will deny Me three times.”
Illustrated
Manifested in His: Coming to Seek the Lost
- Luke 19:10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
Manifested in His: Dying for Us
- John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
- 1 John 3:16 By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
Manifested in His: Giving Himself for Us
- Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
Manifested in His: Interceding for Us
- Hebrews 7:25 Therefore He is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.
- Hebrews 9:24 For Christ did not enter a man-made copy of the true sanctuary, but He entered heaven itself, now to appear on our behalf in the presence of God.
Manifested in His: Praying for his Enemies
- Luke 23:34 Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” And they divided up His garments by casting lots.
Manifested in His: Rebukes and Chastisements
- Revelation 3:19 Those I love I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
Manifested in His: Sending the Spirit
- Psalm 68:18 You have ascended on high; You have led captives away. You have received gifts from men, even from the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there.
- John 16:7 But I tell you the truth, it is for your benefit that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.
Manifested in His: Washing Away Our Sins
- Revelation 1:5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood,
Obedient Saints Abide In
- John 15:10 If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.
Passes Knowledge
- Ephesians 3:19 of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Saints Obtain Victory Through
- Romans 8:37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
To be Imitated
- John 13:34 A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.
- John 15:12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
- Ephesians 5:2 and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.
- 1 John 3:16 By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
To his Church
- Song of Solomon 4:8–9 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, come with me from Lebanon! Descend from the peak of Amana, from the summits of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of the lions, from the mountains of the leopards. …
- Song of Solomon 5:1 I have come to my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice. I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink; drink freely, O beloved.
- John 15:9 As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love.
- Ephesians 5:24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
To Saints, Is: Constraining
- 2 Corinthians 5:14 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.
To Saints, Is: Indissoluble
- Romans 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
To Saints, Is: Unchangeable
- John 13:1 It was now just before the Passover Feast, and Jesus knew that His hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the very end.
To Saints, Is: Unquenchable
- Song of Solomon 8:7 Mighty waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love, his offer would be utterly scorned.
To Saints, Shall be Acknowledge Even by Enemies
- Revelation 3:9 As for those who belong to the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews but are liars instead, I will make them come and bow down at your feet, and they will know that I love you.
To the Father
- Psalm 91:14 “Because he loves Me, I will deliver him; because he knows My name, I will protect him.
- 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.
To Those Who Love Him
- Proverbs 8:17 I love those who love me, and those who seek me early shall find me.
- John 14:21 Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.