As a Christian, we are called to love - to love everyone.
Sometimes it's hard to love people. Sometimes it's too easy to love people. But God calls us to love people. In fact, it is our second commandment.
And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ Matthew 22:39
God loves us more than we could ever imagine. He loves us more than our mom loves us. Now if you have a great mom, then you can only begin to understand the vast love for us. I recently heard a quote that said...
In the past, I did not understand what it meant to be deeply loved by my Heavenly Father. When you know you are deeply loved by Him, it is so much easier to love others and ultimately love yourself. If you do not understand God's deep love for you, then I encourage you to seek council in what it looks like for God to love us. God's love for us is the easiest thing that will ever happen on this earth. Take joy in his love daily.
I pray that you would continue to learn more about God's love, these verses below accurately display his love. When thinking about a future husband, pray he is able to love like Christ loves us.
Verses on God's Love and How We Should Love:
But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. Luke 6:35
Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. Romans 12:9
Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. Romans 13:10
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13
Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Ephesians 4:2
Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. 1 Peter 4:8
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 1 John 4:7
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. We love because he first loved us. 1 John 4:18-19
Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. John 15:13
And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. Colossians 3:14
Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs. Proverbs 10:12
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. 1 John 3:16-18
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 1 John 4:8
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16
Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires. Who is this coming up from the wilderness leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I roused you; there your mother conceived you, there she who was in labor gave you birth. Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If one were to give all the wealth of one’s house for love, it would be utterly scorned. We have a little sister, and her breasts are not yet grown. What shall we do for our sister on the day she is spoken for? Song of Songs 8:4-8
“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money." Matthew 6:24
Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ Matthew 22:37-39