Love Of God According To The Torah
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Love is a crucial attribute of God in Christianity, even if in the New Testament the expression “God is love” explicitly occurs only twice and in two not too distant verses: 1 John 4:8,16.
The love of God has been the center of the spirituality of a number of Christian mystics such as Teresa of Avila.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. (Deuteronomy, 6:5)
… The Lord your God is testing you to find out whether you love Him with all your heart and with all your soul. (Deuteronomy, 13:3)
… What does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to observe the Lord’s commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good? (Deuteronomy, 10:12-13)
Love the Lord your God and keep His requirements, His decrees, His laws and His commands always. (Deuteronomy, 11:1)
I love those who love Me… (Proverbs, 8:17)
[The Lord] … showing love to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments. (Deuteronomy, 5:10)
… Love the Lord your God… (Deuteronomy, 30:20)
… Love the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways, to obey His commands, to hold fast to Him and to serve Him with all your heart and all your soul. (Joshua, 22:5)
Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; He is the faithful God, keeping His covenant of love to… those who love Him and keep His commands. (Deuteronomy, 7:9)
So if you faithfully obey the commands I am giving you today—to love the Lord your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul—then I will send rain on your land in its season, both autumn and spring rains… (Deuteronomy, 11:13-14)
O Lord, God of Heaven, the great and awesome God, Who keeps His covenant of love with those who love Him and obey His commands. (Nehemiah, 1:5)
I love… O Lord, the place where Your glory dwells. (Psalms, 26:8)
How lovely is Your dwelling place, O Lord Almighty!… for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. (Psalms, 84:1-2)
So be very careful to love the Lord your God. (Joshua, 23:11)
Love the Lord your God and keep His requirements, His decrees, His laws and His commands always. (Deuteronomy, 11:1)
… You may love Him [God] with all your heart and with all your soul, and live. (Deuteronomy, 30:6)
Love the Lord, all His saints! The Lord preserves the faithful… (Psalms, 31:23)
I love you, O Lord, my strength. (Psalms, 18:1)
I love the Lord… I will call on Him as long as I live. (Psalms, 116:1-2)
“Because he loves Me,” says the Lord, “I will rescue him…” (Psalms, 91:14)
Let those who love the Lord hate evil, for He guards the lives of His faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked. (Psalms, 97:10)
For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commands, decrees and laws… and the Lord your God will bless you… (Deuteronomy, 30:16)
… You carefully follow all these laws I command you today—to love the Lord your God and to walk always in His ways… (Deuteronomy, 19:9)
If you carefully observe all these commands I am giving you to follow—to love the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to hold fast to Him- (Deuteronomy, 11:22)
But let all who take refuge in You be glad; … those who love Your name may rejoice in You. (Psalms, 5:11)
The Lord watches over all who love Him… (Psalms, 145:20)
See also
- Love As A Theological Virtue
- What Is Love?
- Mahabba (Love)
- ‘Ashq (Passion or Intense, Ecstatic Love)
- Self-love
- Free Love
- Platonic Love
- Romance (love)
- Love Quotes
- Biological Basis Of Love
- Philosophy of Love
- Religious Views On love
- Agape “Divine Love”
- God is Love
- Love of God
- Ideal Spirits And Heroes of Love
- Can Love Be Transformed Into True Love?
- Love Versus Fear; Which One?
- Song of Love
- Tolstoy On The Law of Love
- Jewish Views On Love
- Love Of God According To The Torah