WW_Love_Man's Love for God

IV. Man’s Love for God

Matt. 6:24: "No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love [agapao] the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. [Luke 16:13]

Matt. 10:37: He who loves [phileo] father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves [phileo] son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Matt. 24:12: And because wickedness is multiplied, most men's love [agape] will grow cold

Mark 12:30-33: And you shall love [agapao] the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.' The second is this, 'You shall love [agapao] your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these." And the scribe said to him, "You are right, Teacher; you have truly said that he is one, and there is no other but he; and to love [agapao] him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength, and to love [agapao] one's neighbor as oneself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices." [Matt. 22:37-39; Luke 10:27]

Luke 7:4-5: And when they came to Jesus, they besought him earnestly, saying, "He is worthy to have you do this for him, for he loves [agapao] our nation, and he built us our synagogue." [Assumed love for nation and synagogue due to his love for God.]

Luke 7:41-42: "A certain creditor had two debtors; one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. When they could not pay, he forgave them both. Now which of them will love [agapao] him more?" [Parable about man’s love for the God who forgives great debt.]

Luke 7:47: Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved [agapao] much; but he who is forgiven little, loves little."

Luke 11:42: "But woe to you Pharisees! for you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love [agape] of God; these you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

John 8:42: Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love [agapao] me, for I proceeded and came forth from God; I came not of my own accord, but he sent me.

John 12:43: For they loved [agapao] the praise of men more than the praise of God.

John 14:21: He who has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves [agapao] me; and he who loves [agapao] me will be loved [agapao] by my Father, and I will love [agapao] him and manifest myself to him."

John 14:23-24: Jesus answered him, "If a man loves [agapao] me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love [agapao] him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. He who does not love [agapao] me does not keep my words; and the word which you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me.

John 14:28: You heard me say to you, 'I go away, and I will come to you.' If you loved [agapao] me, you would have rejoiced, because I go to the Father; for the Father is greater than I.

John 16:27: For the Father himself loves [phileo] you, because you have loved [phileo] me and have believed that I came from the Father.

John 21:15-17: When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love [agapao] me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I love [phileo] you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs." A second time he said to him, "Simon, son of John, do you love [agapao] me?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I love [phileo] you." He said to him, "Tend my sheep." He said to him the third time, " Simon, son of John, do you love [phileo] me?" Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, "Do you love [phileo] me?" And he said to him, "Lord, you know everything; you know that I love [phileo] you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep.

1 Cor. 8:1-3: Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that "all of us possess knowledge." "Knowledge" puffs up, but love [agape] builds up. If any one imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. But if one loves [agapao] God, one is known by him.

1 Cor. 16:22: If any one has no love [philoteknos] for the Lord, let him be accursed.

2 Cor. 6:4-6: But as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, tumults, labors, watching, hunger; by purity, knowledge, forbearance, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love [agape].

Phil. 1:15-16: Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good will. The latter do it out of love [agape], knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel.

2 Thes. 3:5: May the Lord direct your hearts to the love [agape] of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.

2 Tim. 3:2-5: For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, fierce, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God [philotheos], holding the form of religion but denying the power of it. Avoid such people.

2 Tim. 4:8: Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved [agapao] his appearing.

Titus 2:2: Bid the older men be temperate, serious, sensible, sound in faith, in love [agape] , and in steadfastness.

Philemon 1:4-5: I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers, because I hear of your love [agape] and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and all the saints.

1 John 2:5: But whoever keeps his word, in him truly love [agape] for God is perfected. By this we may be sure that we are in him.

1 John 2:15: Do not love [agapao] the world or the things in the world. If any one loves [agapao] the world, love [agape] for the Father is not in him.

1 John 5:1-3: Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God, and every one who loves [agapao] the parent loves [agapao] the child. By this we know that we love [agapao] the children of God, when we love [agapao] God and obey his commandments. For this is the love [agape] of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.

Jude 1:21: Keep yourselves in the love [agape] of God; wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

Rev. 12:11: And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved [agapao] not their lives even unto death.