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41 Verses of Love from God’s Word: To Help Us Stand Against the Enemy’s Lies

February 14, 2017 by Debbie 4 Comments

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We have a choice every day, to choose the voices we listen to. And most days, it takes a determined effort to choose wisely.

So this is a month we hear a lot about love, and because of that, you can be assured the enemy will do all he can to twist the real meaning and try to steal your joy. He despises everything about real love, because real love starts with God.

Don’t let him win.

May God help us to live aware and walk in His Spirit every day. May He help us to stand against the lies and schemes with His Truth. May He give us the awareness and courage to step right over the enemy’s traps.

Here’s how he may be working overtime this month:

  • Satan is a liar and a deceiver. He loves to incite evil and hate. He’ll try to trap us with counterfeit love. Because he wants nothing more than to keep us pursuing things swaddled up in lies, farther and farther away from God.
  • He’ll remind you again of your struggles. He’s an expert in our weaknesses, and whispers lies of defeat. Making us feel all alone, heaping on condemnation, guilt, and shame.
  • He works hard in our marriages, creating distance, fueling quarrels, getting us overly focused on our “own needs,” so that we lose sight of the other. He takes joy when we feel neglected and unloved, he loves inciting division and defeat.
  • He steals away our attention from the most important. For even he knows the truth, that God is the only One who can meet our deepest needs. So he’ll do anything to keep us from Him.
  • He’ll keep us so busy, hurried, and distracted, that we never have time to show love and care for another. He desires to keep us going everywhere but getting nowhere, and certainly nowhere closer to Truth.

Yet no matter how hard he fights against us, or what our current situation is, or the hard times we might be facing, we can choose to focus on what God says. The powerful love of Christ wins every time against the enemy’s lies of defeat. We can choose the better way. We can choose whose voice we listen to.

God’s love is perfect, faithful, unconditional, forgiving, all-encompassing, pure, lasting, sacrificial, strong, enduring, refreshing, redeeming, everlasting, lavish, full, inspiring, hope-filled, gracious, and so much more. It’s never based on us, our abilities, or striving to ever be good enough. It’s found in Him, His character, and huge capacity to give. It knows no boundaries and has no limits.

There’s no place too deep that His love can’t reach us still.

His love letter to us breathes grace, strength, hope, and peace.

Believe the truth He speaks over you…and know beyond a doubt that you are loved.

41 Verses of Love, from God’s Heart to Us:

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”  John 3:16

“Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”  John 15:13

“Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.”  1 Peter 4:8

“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Rom. 5:8

“But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.”  Psalm 86:15

“Let all that you do be done in love.”  1 Corinthians 16:14

“So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other.  Just as I have loved you, you should love each other.  Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.”  John 13:34-35

“There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment.  The one who fears is not made perfect in love.  We love because He first loved us.”  1 John 4:18-19

“If you love me, you will obey what I command.”  John 14:15

“Above all, be loving. This ties everything together perfectly.”  Colossians 3:14

“Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.   Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.”  1 John 4:7-8

“Hate stirs up trouble, but love forgives all offenses.”  Proverbs 10:12

“Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves.”  Romans 12:9-10

“Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever.”  1 Chronicles 16:34

“A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.”  Proverbs 17:17

“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.”  Zephaniah 3:17

“He has shown you, O man, what is good.  And what does the Lord require of you?  To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.”  Micah 6:8

“For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.”  2 Corinthians 5:14

“But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great…” Luke 6:35

“Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.” Ephesians 5:25

“For you have been called to live in freedom, my brothers and sisters.  But don’t use your freedom to satisfy your sinful nature.  Instead, use your freedom to serve one another in love.  For the whole law can be summed up in this one command:  ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”  Galatians 5:13-14

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.”  Galatians 5:22-23

“Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.”  Romans 13:8

“Your love, O Lord, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies.  Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your justice like the great deep.”  Psalm 36:5-6

“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 5:2

“Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness.  Whoever loves his brother lives in the light, and there is nothing in him to make him stumble.”  1 John 2:9-10

“How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!”  1 John 3:1

“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?  Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.”  1 John 3:16-18

“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. ”  1 John 4:9-11

“His banner over me is love.”  Song of Songs 2:4

“The commandments…are summed up in the one command, ‘Love your neighbor as you love yourself.’  If you love others, you will never do them wrong, to love, then, is to obey the whole Law.”  Romans 13:9-10

“Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death…Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away.”  Song of Songs 8:6-7

“I will declare that your love stands firm forever, that you established your faithfulness in heaven itself.”  Psalm 89:2

“The earth is filled with your love, O Lord…”  Psalm 119:64

“You were cleansed from your sins when you obeyed the truth, so now you must show sincere love to each other as brothers and sisters.  Love each other deeply with all your heart.”  1 Peter 1:22

“Jesus replied: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’  This is the first and greatest commandment.  And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”  Matthew 22:37-39

“In all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.  For I am convinced that neither death or 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.”  Romans 8:37-39

“‘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,’ says the Lord, who has compassion on you.”  Isaiah 54:10

“May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other…”  1Thess. 3:12

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.  Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.  Love never fails…“So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.” 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, 13

“Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you.” Psalm 63:3

May God help us to live aware.

Stay alert to the enemy’s schemes.

Choose whose voice we listen to.

Keep close to the One who loves us more than we could ever imagine.

And live a life of love.

(This article was adapted from the original found here: http://www.crosswalk.com/blogs/debbie-mcdaniel/50-verses-of-love-to-cover-any-shade-of-grey.html )

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  1. Jenny says

    March 28, 2017 at 8:39 am

    Words here r so powerful…I try to love everyone who comes across my path…but I have ppl who lie & tell me things that r not true…but i still love them…hoping 1 day…they turn around & bcome a child of God too…to love me …to love God as I do…waiting patiently😊

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    • Lisa says

      May 30, 2017 at 9:26 am

      I understand!😊 You Be Encouraged because God loves you!!!! His love is soooooo DEEP AND SOOOOOO WIDE – I know His Love is Real and unconditional! I too am going through something similar it’s for a special someone who is not walking with the Lord we broke up but we are still friends I know that’s God but I am trusting God for HIS WILL to be done – maybe He allowed this person to move out of the way because it wasn’t His will for Me – I’m learning that God knows better than I do what I need and who is good for me – I don’t want any stumbling blocks my soul is way too important for mans approval acceptance or love!

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  2. Beth says

    February 13, 2018 at 8:25 pm

    Beautiful. Isn’t God’s word so powerful?

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  3. Gwen Thielges says

    February 7, 2019 at 12:17 pm

    So true that which voice we listen to is a choice we have to make! Thanks for sharing!

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