The Love of God
39 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
34 sections
- Abiding
- Christ Abides In
- Christ, the Especial Object of
- Constraining
- Everlasting
- Exhibited in Adoption
- Exhibited in Chastisements
- Exhibited in Christ's Dying for Us While Sinners
- Exhibited in Defeating Evil Counsels
- Exhibited in Drawing Us to Himself
- Exhibited in Election
- Exhibited in Forgiving Sin
- Exhibited in Freeness of Salvation
- Exhibited in Quickening of Souls
- Exhibited in Redemption
- Exhibited in Temporal Blessings
- Exhibited in The Giving of Christ
- Exhibited in The Sending of Christ
- Great
- Irrespective of Merit
- Manifested Towards: His Saints
- Manifested Towards: Perishing Sinners
- Manifested Towards: The Cheerful Giver
- Manifested Towards: The Destitute
- Perfected in Saints by Brotherly Love
- Perfected in Saints by Obedience
- Saints Know and Believe
- Saints should Abide In
- Shed Abroad in the Heart by the Holy Spirit
- Sovereign
- The Source of Our Love to Him
- To be Sought in Prayer
- Unalienable
- Unfailing
Abiding
- Zephaniah 3:17 The LORD your God is among you; He is mighty to save. He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you with His love; He will rejoice over you with singing.”
Christ Abides 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.
Christ, the Especial Object of
- John 15:9 As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love.
- John 17:26 And I have made Your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love You have for Me may be in them, and I in them.”
Constraining
- Hosea 11:4 I led them with cords of kindness, with ropes of love; I lifted the yoke from their necks and bent down to feed them.
Everlasting
- Jeremiah 31:3 The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.
Exhibited in Adoption
- 1 John 3:1 Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.
Exhibited in Chastisements
- Hebrews 12:6 For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.”
Exhibited in Christ's Dying for Us While Sinners
- Romans 5:8 But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
- 1 John 4:10 And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
Exhibited in Defeating Evil Counsels
- Deuteronomy 23:5 Yet the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam, and the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you.
Exhibited in Drawing Us to Himself
- Hosea 11:4 I led them with cords of kindness, with ropes of love; I lifted the yoke from their necks and bent down to feed them.
Exhibited in Election
- Malachi 1:2–3 “I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you ask, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet Jacob I have loved, …
- Romans 9:11–13 Yet before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad, in order that God’s plan of election might stand, …
Exhibited in Forgiving Sin
- Isaiah 38:17 Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
Exhibited in Freeness of Salvation
- Titus 3:4–7 But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, …
Exhibited in Quickening of Souls
- Ephesians 2:4–5 But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, …
Exhibited in Redemption
- Isaiah 43:3–4 For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I give Egypt for your ransom, Cush and Seba in your place. …
- Isaiah 63:9 In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
Exhibited in Temporal Blessings
- Deuteronomy 7:13 He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your womb and the produce of your land— your grain, new wine, and oil, the young of your herds and the lambs of your flocks— in the land that He swore to …
Exhibited in The Giving of Christ
- John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Exhibited in The Sending of Christ
- 1 John 4:9 This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.
Great
- Ephesians 2:4 But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
Irrespective of Merit
- Deuteronomy 7:7 The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than the other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.
- Job 7:17 What is man that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart upon him,
Manifested Towards: His Saints
- John 16:27 For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came from God.
- John 17:23 I in them and You in Me — that they may be perfectly united, so that the world may know that You sent Me and have loved them just as You have loved Me.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:16 Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who by grace has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope,
- 1 John 4:16 And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
Manifested Towards: Perishing Sinners
Manifested Towards: The Cheerful Giver
- 2 Corinthians 9:7 Each one should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not out of regret or compulsion. For God loves a cheerful giver.
Manifested Towards: The Destitute
- Deuteronomy 10:18 He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
Perfected in Saints by Brotherly Love
- 1 John 4:12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.
Perfected in Saints by 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:
Saints Know and Believe
- 1 John 4:16 And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
Saints should Abide 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.
Shed Abroad in the Heart by the Holy Spirit
- Romans 5:5 And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.
Sovereign
- Deuteronomy 7:8 But because the LORD loved you and kept the oath He swore to your fathers, He brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
- Deuteronomy 10:15 Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them, above all the peoples, even to this day.
The Source of Our Love to Him
- 1 John 4:19 We love because He first loved us.
To be Sought in Prayer
- 2 Corinthians 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.
Unalienable
- Romans 8:39 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.
Unfailing
- Isaiah 49:15–16 “Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you! …
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LoveThe Love of God is a Part of his CharacterSalvation is of LoveThe Loving-Kindness of God is Through Christ
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.