Article 52

By Steven J. Hogan

FROM THE WORD OF GOD:

Joshua 23:11 – So be very careful to love the Lord your God.
Psalm 13:5 – I trust in Your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in Your salvation.
Psalm 18:1 – I love You, O Lord, my strength.
Psalm 23:6 – Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
Psalm 26:3 – Your love is ever before me, and I walk continually in Your truth.
Psalm 31: 7-8 – I will rejoice and be glad in Your love, for you saw my affliction and knew the anguish of my soul.

Psalm 31:21 – Praise be to the Lord, for He showed His wonderful love to me when I was in a besieged city.
Psalm 33:22 – May Your unfailing love be with us, O Lord, even as we put our hope in You.
Psalm 36:5, 7, 10 – Your love, O Lord, reaches to the heavens… How priceless is Your unfailing love… Continue Your love to those who know You.
Psalm 40:10-11 – I do not conceal Your love and Your truth from the great assembly. Do not withhold Your mercy from me, O Lord; may Your love and Your truth always protect me.

Psalm 42:8 – By day the Lord directs His love, at night His song is with me.
Psalm 44:11 – It was not by their sword that they won the land, nor did their arm bring them victory. It was Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your face, for You loved them.
Psalm 48:9 – Within Your temple, O God, we meditate on Your unfailing love.
Psalm 51:1 – Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your unfailing love, according to Your great compassion.
Psalm 52:8 – I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in God’s unfailing love forever and ever.

Psalm 57:3, 10 – He sends from heaven and saves me, rebuking those who hotly pursue me; God sends His love and His faithfulness… For great is Your love, reaching to the heavens; Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
Psalm 59:16-17 – I will sing of Your strength, in the morning I will sing of Your love… O my strength, I sing praise to You; You, O God, are my fortress, my loving God.
Psalm 60:5 – Save us and help us with Your right hand, that those You love may be delivered.

Psalm 62:11-12 – Two things have I heard: that You, O God, are strong, and that You, O God, are loving.
Psalm 63:3 – Because Your love is better than life, my lips will glorify You.
Psalm 69:13 – I pray to You, O Lord, in the time of Your favor; in Your great love, O God, answer me with Your sure salvation.
Psalm 85:10 – Love and truth meet together; righteousness and peace kiss each other.

Psalm 86:5, 13, 15 – You are forgiving and good, O Lord, abounding in love to all who call to You… Great is Your love toward me; You have delivered me from the depths of the grave… You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and truth.
Psalm 89:1 – I will sing of the Lord’s great love forever.
Psalm 89:24 – My faithful love will be with him, and through My name his horn will be exalted.
Psalm 90:14 – Satisfy us in the morning with Your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.

Psalm 91:14 – “Because he loves Me,” says the Lord, “I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges My name.”
Psalm 92:1-2 – It is good to praise the Lord and make music to Your name, O Most High, to proclaim Your love in the morning and Your faithfulness at night.
Psalm 98:3 – He has remembered His love and His faithfulness to the house of Israel.
Psalm 100:5 – The Lord is good and His love endures forever; His faithfulness continues through all generations.

Psalm 101:1 – I will sing of Your love and justice; to You, O Lord, I will sing praise.
Psalm 103:1, 4, 11, 17 – Praise the Lord… who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion… As high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His love for those who fear Him… From everlasting to everlasting, the Lord’s love is with those who fear Him.
Psalm 107:8, 15, 21, 31, 43 – Let them give thanks to the Lord for His unfailing love and His wonderful deeds for men… Whoever is wise, let him heeds these things and consider the great love of the Lord.

Psalm 115:1 – Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to Your name be the glory, because of Your love and truth.
Psalm 117:2 – Great is His love toward us, and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever.
Psalm 118:4 – Let those who fear the Lord say: “His love endures  forever.”
Psalm 119:41 – May Your unfailing love come to me, O Lord, Your salvation according to Your promise.

Psalm 119:64 – The earth is filled with Your love, O Lord; teach me Your decrees.
Psalm 119:76 – May Your unfailing love be my comfort, according to Your promise to Your servant.
Psalm 119:88 – Preserve my life, O Lord, according to Your love, and I will obey the statutes of Your mouth.
Psalm 119:97 – O, how I love Your law! I meditate on it all day long.

Psalm 119:124 – Deal with Your servant according to Your love, and teach me Your decrees.
Psalm 119:149 – Hear my voice in accordance with Your love; preserve my life, O Lord, according to Your laws.
Psalm 119:159 – See how I love Your precepts; preserve my life, O Lord, according to Your love.
Psalm 136:1-26 – Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good. His love endures forever.

Psalm 138:8 –The Lord will fulfill His purpose for me; Your love, O Lord, endures forever – do not abandon the works of your hands.
Psalm 143:8 –Let the morning bring me word of Your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in You. Show me the way I should go, for to You I lift up my soul.
Psalm 144:1-2 – Praise be to the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle. He is my loving God and my fortress, my stronghold, and my deliverer.
Psalm 145:8 – The Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love.

Proverbs 8:17 – I love those who love Me, and those who seek Me find Me.
Isaiah 54:10 – Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet My unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor My covenant of peace be removed.
Jeremiah 31:3 – I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with lovingkindness.
Lamentations 3:22 – Because of the Lord’s great love, we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail.

Hosea 11:4 – I led them with cords of human kindness, with ties of love.
Zephaniah 3:17 – The Lord your God is with you, He is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.
Mark 12:30 – Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might… love your neighbor as yourself.
John 3:16 – For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.

John 13:34 – A new command I give you: love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
John 14:21 – Whoever has My commands and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I too will love him and show Myself to him.
John 15:9 – As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Now remain in My love. If you obey My commands, you will remain in My love.

John 17:24 – May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know You have sent Me and have loved them even as You have loved Me.
Romans 5:5 – Hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.
Romans 5:8 – God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 8:35 – Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?… For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 – Love is patient, love is kind… love never fails.
1 Corinthians 16:13 – Do everything in love.
2 Corinthians 5:14 – Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, and therefore all died.
2 Corinthians 13:11 – Finally, brethren, rejoice, be made complete, be comforted, be like-minded, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

2 Corinthians 13:14 – The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.
Galatians 2:20 – I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
Ephesians 1:3-5 – In love, He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself.

Ephesians 2:4-5 – But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ.
Ephesians 3:17b -19 – … you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge.

Ephesians 5:1-2 – Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children, and live a life of love just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. 
Ephesians 6:24 – Grace to all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.
Colossians 3:12 – Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, cloth yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience… Over all these things, put on love.

2 Thessalonians 3:5 – May the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and the steadfastness of Christ.
Titus 3:4-7 – When the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy…
Hebrews 12:6  – The Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastens everyone He accepts as His son.

1 John 2:5, 15 – If anyone obeys His word, God’s love is truly made complete in him… If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1 John 3:1 – How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!
1 John 3:16 – 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. If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?

1 John 4:7 – Let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
1 John 4:8-12 – This is how God showed His love among us: He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another… if we love one another, God lives in us and His love is made complete in us.

1 John 4:16-18 – So we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like Him. There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear.
1 John 4:19 – We love because He first loved us.
1 John 5:3 – This is love for God: to obey His commands.

Jude 20-21 – Keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.
Revelation 1:5b – To Him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by His blood, and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve His God and Father – to Him be glory and power forever and ever! Amen