Matthew 10:37

This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment.

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.

But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

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

If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.

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

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Whoever denies the Son doesn’t have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.

“You shall have no other gods before me.

“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.

and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.

These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.

Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

A long white robe was given to each of them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, should complete their course.

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you.

Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know Yahweh.

The sin of the young men was very great before Yahweh; for the men despised Yahweh’s offering.

Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?’

Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father; except that he sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.

There was no king like him before him, who turned to Yahweh with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; and there was none like him who arose after him.

I will praise you, Lord my God, with my whole heart. I will glorify your name forever more.

Let your garments be always white, and don’t let your head lack oil.

“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.

for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.

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

Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,

This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of God’s Kingdom, for which you also suffer.

and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.

Around the throne were twenty-four thrones. On the thrones were twenty-four elders sitting, dressed in white garments, with crowns of gold on their heads.

But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.”

She shall take off the clothing of her captivity, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month. After that you shall go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish on the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.

My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

Pray without ceasing.

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.

Moses said, “Consecrate yourselves today to Yahweh, for every man was against his son and against his brother, that he may give you a blessing today.”

For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves, and he didn’t restrain them.

He also walked in the ways of Ahab’s house, because his mother was his counselor in acting wickedly.

Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father’s house.

It will happen that, when anyone still prophesies, then his father and his mother who bore him will tell him, ‘You must die, because you speak lies in Yahweh’s name;’ and his father and his mother who bore him will stab him when he prophesies.

They immediately left the boat and their father, and followed him.

for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.

The thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight on account of his son.

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

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

Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what Yahweh spoke of, saying, ‘I will show myself holy to those who come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified.’ ” Aaron held his peace.

He said of his father, and of his mother, ‘I have not seen him.’ He didn’t acknowledge his brothers, nor did he know his own children; for they have observed your word, and keep your covenant.

That same night, Yahweh said to him, “Take your father’s bull, even the second bull seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is by it.

They lifted up their voices and wept again; then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth stayed with her.

He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah. Asa cut down her image and burned it at the brook Kidron.

Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go and do as you have said; but make me a little cake from it first, and bring it out to me, and afterward make some for you and for your son.

For our fathers were unfaithful, and have done that which was evil in Yahweh our God’s sight, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of Yahweh, and turned their backs.

Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon; for why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions?

They immediately left their nets and followed him.

But he answered him who spoke to him, “Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?”

Immediately he called them, and they left their father, Zebedee, in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him.

When they had brought their boats to land, they left everything, and followed him.

Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But one to whom little is forgiven, loves little.”

But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.

that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him.

and said to him, ‘Get out of your land and away from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.’

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

Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

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,

“Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited weren’t worthy.

Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardis that didn’t defile their garments. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.