Genesis 27:1-4 (First time "love" used) Isaac's "love" focuses on his belly.
25:27-32 like father, like son
John 6:26 "Ye seek me . . . because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled." [This is an evil.]
Philippians 3:18-19 ". . . they are the enemies...of Christ...whose God is their belly. . . ."
Romans 16:17-18 ". . . they . . . serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly. . . ."
Genesis 29:20 (Second time "love" used) Jacob's love is for a woman: Rachel not Leah. (eyesight)
Genesis 29:32 (Third time "love" used) Leah thinks having Jacob's baby will make him love her.
Proverbs 7 (She's confusing "sex" with "love.")
1st Kings 11:1-8 "But King Solomon loved many strange women. . . ." --Yea, right!
Proverbs 7:16-18 ". . . let us take our fill of love until the morning. . . ." --Yea, right
1st Samuel 18:20 "And Michal Saul's daughter loved David." [This has got to be "True love!"]
2nd Samuel 6:16,20-23 ". . . and she despised him in her heart." [All the love, went out of her.]
2nd Timothy 2:22 "Flee also youthful lusts. . . ." (The Lord doesn't confuse "lust" with "love.")
Colossians 3:5 "Mortify therefore your members . . . fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection. . . ."
Exodus 20:1-6 (Fourth time "love" used) "And God spake . . ." (associating "love" and "commandments.")
(Also in Deuteronomy 5:10 / 7:9 / 10:12-13 / 11:1 / 30:16 / Joshua 22:5 / Daniel 9:4)
John 14:15,21 "If ye love me, keep my commandments." (Said 14 different times in six books)
15:10 "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love. . . ."
1st John 5:2-3 "For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. . . ."
2nd John 6 "And this is love, that we walk after his commandments."
Psalm 119:126-127 "Therefore I love thy commandments above gold. . . ."
v. 131 "I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments." (That's love!)
Song of Solomon 8:7 "Many waters cannot quench love . . . if a man would give all the substance of his house. . . ."
THE LOVE OF GOD
Romans 5:5-8 "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."
1st John 3:16 "Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us. . . ."
1st Timothy 1:12-14 "And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus."
3:1 "Behold, what manner of love...that we should be called the sons of God. . . ."
Jude 21 "Keep yourselves in the love of God." (A warning to Baptists --Remember "Once saved, always saved"?)
John 15:9 "As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love."
(Philippians 2:12 ". . . work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.")
Romans 8:35-39 "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?"
2nd Thessalonians 3:3-5 "And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and in the patient waiting for Christ."
?8:17 "I love them that love me. . . ." (Is that strange?)
LOVING GOD
Matthew 22:35-40 getting the priorities straight
Deuteronomy 6:4-5 "And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart. . . ."
Luke 11:42 "But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye...pass over judgment and the love of God. . . ."
John 5:42-44 "But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you."
8:42,44,47 "If God were your Father, ye would love me. . . . He that is of God heareth God's words. . . ."
Romans 8:28 "all things work together for good to them that love God. . . ."
1st Corinthians 2:9 "Eye hath not seen...the things which God hath prepared for them that love him."
Colossians 4:8 ". . . a crown of righteousness . . . unto all them also that love his appearing."
James 1:12 ". . . the crown of life . . . to them that love him."
1st Peter 1:3-8 ". . . Jesus Christ: Whom having not seen, ye love. . . ."
1st Corinthians 8:3 "But if any man love God, the same is known of him."
John 14:23-24 ". . . if a man love me, he will keep my words. . . ." (a warning to the Charismatics)
1st John 2:3-5 "But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected. . . ."
Psalm 119:140 "Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it."
Psalm 31:23 "O love the Lord, all ye his saints. . . ."
Hebrews 12:3 "For consider him that endured . . . lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds."
Ephesians 3:17-19 ". . . that ye, being rooted and grounded in love . . . to know the love of Christ. . . ."
Matthew 6:24 "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate one, and love the other. . . ." (The Lord and "Mary")
Proverbs 8:36 ". . . all they that hate me love death." (A warning to Catholics!)
LOVE & HATE
Romans 9:13 ". . . Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated." (It never occurs to people that the Lord does both.)
Ecclesiastes 9:1 ". . . no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them." (It's a spiritual thing.)
Ecclesiastes 3:8 "A time to love, and a time to hate. . . ."
Psalm 97:10 "Ye that love the Lord, hate evil."
Amos 5:15 "Hate the evil, and love the good. . . ."
Micah 3:1-3 those who get it backwards God likens unto Cannibals!
Psalm 119:163 "I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love." (example)
(2nd Thessalonians 2:10 ". . . they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.")
Proverbs 10:12 "Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins." (Satan / the Lord)
Proverbs 17:9 "He that covereth a transgression seeketh love. . . ." (The Lord does this!)
(Psalm 32:1 "Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.")
Proverbs 15:17 "Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith."
LOVING OUR ENEMIES
Matthew 5:43-46 "For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the Publicans the same?"
Luke 6:32 "For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them."
LOVING OUR NEIGHBOR
Leviticus 19:17,18 ". . . thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbor. . . thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. . . ."
Proverbs 27:5 "Open rebuke is better than secret love."
(Revelation 3:19 "As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. . . .")
(Hebrews 12:5-11 "For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth. . . .")
Romans 13:8-10 "Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law."
(Incidentally, it didn’t say love "replaces" the law, rather, ". . . love is the fulfilling of the law." It makes it complete.)
CHEAP LOVE
Ezekiel 33:30-32 ". . . they hear thy words, but they will not do them; for with their mouth they shew much love. . . ."
Matthew 24:12 ". . . the love of many shall wax cold. . . ." (one of the signs of the times)
Proverbs 17:17 "A friend loveth at all times, and a brother [in the flesh] is born for adversity."
LOVE IN MARRIAGE
Titus 2:1-5 "That they may teach the young women to . . . love their husbands, to love their children. . . ."
Colossians 3:19 "Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them."
Ephesians 5:25-33 "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the Church, and gave himself for it. . . ."
THINGS NOT TO LOVE (A summary)
1. evil Amos 5:15 "Hate the evil, and love the good. . . ."
2. violence Psalm 11:5 ". . . the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth."
3. lying Psalm 119:163 "I hate and abhor lying. . . ."
4. money 1st Tim. 6:10 "For the love of money is the root of all evil. . . ."
5. the world 1st John 2:15-16 "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world."
6. strife Proverbs 10:12 "Hatred stirreth up strifes. . . ."
7. transgression Proverbs 17:9 "He that covereth a transgression seeketh love. . . ."
8. a reward Isaiah 5:23 "Which justify the wicked for reward. . . ."
9. praise of men John 12:43 ". . . For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God."
10. cursing Psalm 109:17 "As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him. . . ."
11. sleep Proverbs 20:13 "Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty. . . ."
12. pleasure Proverbs 21:17 "He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man. . . ."
13. wine & oil Proverbs 21:17 ". . . he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich."
14. gifts Isaiah 1:23 ". . . every one loveth gifts. . . ."
15. your life Matthew 16:25 "For whosoever will save his life shall lose it. . . ."