Bible Cross References
the Lord
1 Thessalonians 4:10
And you have, in fact, behaved like this toward all the believers in all of Macedonia. So we beg you, our friends, to do even more.
Psalm 115:4
Their gods are made of silver and gold, formed by human hands.
Luke 17:5
The apostles said to the Lord, "Make our faith greater."
2 Corinthians 9:10
And God, who supplies seed for the sower and bread to eat, will also supply you with all the seed you need and will make it grow and produce a rich harvest from your generosity.
James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect present comes from heaven; it comes down from God, the Creator of the heavenly lights, who does not change or cause darkness by turning.
2 Peter 3:18
But continue to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory, now and forever! Amen.
abound
1 Thessalonians 4:9
There is no need to write you about love for each other. You yourselves have been taught by God how you should love one another.
1 Thessalonians 4:10
And you have, in fact, behaved like this toward all the believers in all of Macedonia. So we beg you, our friends, to do even more.
Philippians 1:9
I pray that your love will keep on growing more and more, together with true knowledge and perfect judgment,
2 Thessalonians 1:3
Our friends, we must thank God at all times for you. It is right for us to do so, because your faith is growing so much and the love each of you has for the others is becoming greater.
love
1 Thessalonians 5:15
See that no one pays back wrong for wrong, but at all times make it your aim to do good to one another and to all people.
Matthew 7:12
"Do for others what you want them to do for you: this is the meaning of the Law of Moses and of the teachings of the prophets.
Matthew 22:39
The second most important commandment is like it: 'Love your neighbor as you love yourself.'
Romans 13:8
Be under obligation to no one---the only obligation you have is to love one another. Whoever does this has obeyed the Law.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
1
I may be able to speak the languages of human beings and even of angels, but if I have no love, my speech is no more than a noisy gong or a clanging bell.
2
I may have the gift of inspired preaching; I may have all knowledge and understand all secrets; I may have all the faith needed to move mountains---but if I have no love, I am nothing.
3
I may give away everything I have, and even give up my body to be burned ---but if I have no love, this does me no good.
4
Love is patient and kind; it is not jealous or conceited or proud;
5
love is not ill-mannered or selfish or irritable; love does not keep a record of wrongs;
6
love is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth.
7
Love never gives up; and its faith, hope, and patience never fail.
8
Love is eternal. There are inspired messages, but they are temporary; there are gifts of speaking in strange tongues, but they will cease; there is knowledge, but it will pass.
9
For our gifts of knowledge and of inspired messages are only partial;
10
but when what is perfect comes, then what is partial will disappear.
11
When I was a child, my speech, feelings, and thinking were all those of a child; now that I am an adult, I have no more use for childish ways.
12
What we see now is like a dim image in a mirror; then we shall see face-to-face. What I know now is only partial; then it will be complete---as complete as God's knowledge of me.
13
Meanwhile these three remain: faith, hope, and love; and the greatest of these is love.
Galatians 5:6
For when we are in union with Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor the lack of it makes any difference at all; what matters is faith that works through love.
Galatians 5:13
As for you, my friends, you were called to be free. But do not let this freedom become an excuse for letting your physical desires control you. Instead, let love make you serve one another.
Galatians 5:14
For the whole Law is summed up in one commandment: "Love your neighbor as you love yourself."
Galatians 5:22
But the Spirit produces love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
2 Peter 1:7
to your godliness add Christian affection; and to your Christian affection add love.
1 John 3:11-19
11
The message you heard from the very beginning is this: we must love one another.
12
We must not be like Cain; he belonged to the Evil One and murdered his own brother Abel. Why did Cain murder him? Because the things he himself did were wrong, and the things his brother did were right.
13
So do not be surprised, my friends, if the people of the world hate you.
14
We know that we have left death and come over into life; we know it because we love others. Those who do not love are still under the power of death.
15
Those who hate others are murderers, and you know that murderers do not have eternal life in them.
16
This is how we know what love is: Christ gave his life for us. We too, then, ought to give our lives for others!
17
If we are rich and see others in need, yet close our hearts against them, how can we claim that we love God?
18
My children, our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action.
19
This, then, is how we will know that we belong to the truth; this is how we will be confident in God's presence.
1 John 4:7-16
7
Dear friends, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Whoever loves is a child of God and knows God.
8
Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.
9
And God showed his love for us by sending his only Son into the world, so that we might have life through him.
10
This is what love is: it is not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the means by which our sins are forgiven.
11
Dear friends, if this is how God loved us, then we should love one another.
12
No one has ever seen God, but if we love one another, God lives in union with us, and his love is made perfect in us.
13
We are sure that we live in union with God and that he lives in union with us, because he has given us his Spirit.
14
And we have seen and tell others that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
15
If we declare that Jesus is the Son of God, we live in union with God and God lives in union with us.
16
And we ourselves know and believe the love which God has for us. God is love, and those who live in love live in union with God and God lives in union with them.
even
1 Thessalonians 2:8
Because of our love for you we were ready to share with you not only the Good News from God but even our own lives. You were so dear to us!