Genesis 29:20

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power,

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places of the mountainside, let me see your face. let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet and your face is lovely.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

“I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.

She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, “Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also.” She named him Simeon.

These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, “You just hate me, and don’t love me. You’ve told a riddle to the children of my people, and haven’t told it to me.” He said to her, “Behold, I haven’t told my father or my mother, so why should I tell you?”

All these were the sons of David, in addition to the sons of the concubines; and Tamar was their sister.

My dove, my perfect one, is unique. She is her mother’s only daughter. She is the favorite one of her who bore her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed. The queens and the concubines saw her, and they praised her.

But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,

whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.

Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

but he shall wash its innards and its legs with water. The priest shall burn all of it on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat. He said, “I will go in to my wife’s room.” But her father wouldn’t allow him to go in.

Three sons were born to Absalom, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar. She was a woman with a beautiful face.

the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith;

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

I opened to my beloved; but my beloved left, and had gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn’t find him. I called him, but he didn’t answer.

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

Now the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus,

having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you have toward all the saints,

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you,

so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer.

he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him seven more years.

Aren’t we considered as foreigners by him? For he has sold us, and has also used up our money.

After many days, Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.

He killed the burnt offering; and Aaron’s sons delivered the blood to him, and he sprinkled it around on the altar.

Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

Many waters can’t quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned.

Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.

The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

But the free gift isn’t like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

If any man doesn’t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be cursed. Come, Lord!

For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved and in those who perish:

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. Amen.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”

Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”

Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you.”

If a man has two wives, the one beloved and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated, and if the firstborn son is hers who was hated,

She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.”

After this, Absalom the son of David had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.

I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night.”

The young man didn’t wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father.

For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.