How Shall I Love?
List by Ami Hendrickson
God loves us with an everlasting, unquenchable love. He sent His Son, Jesus, to pay our sinful debt and redeem us. God is Love. Jesus is our example. Scripture is clear: we are to love one another as God loves us (John 15:12).
Love without limits
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.
Love people
1 John 2:10
He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.
Love incorruptibly
Ephesians 6:24
Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. Amen.
Love with compassion and forgiveness
Colossians 3:12-13
Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.
Love selflessly
1 John 3:16
By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
Love people like God loves me
John 13:34-35
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.
Love mercifully
Micah 6:8
He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does the LORD require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
Love sacrificially
Ephesians 5:1-2
Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. 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.
Love without hypocrisy
Romans 12:9-10
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good. In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another.
Love sincerely
1 Peter 1:22
Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently.
