How should we love that special person in our life, the partner that God has given us? With the Bible we can learn to distinguish and express true love. Let’s put that love into practice!
Love must be sincere. Hate evil; hold on to the good. Love one another with brotherly love, respecting and honoring each other.
(Romans 12:9-10)
And this is my commandment: that you love one another, as I have loved you.
(John 15:12)
Love is patient, love is kind. Love is not envious or boastful or proud. He doesn’t behave rudely, he isn’t selfish, he doesn’t get angry easily, he doesn’t hold a grudge. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. He excuses everything, believes everything, expects everything, supports everything.
(1 Corinthians 13:4-7)
Love is never extinguished.
(1 Corinthians 13:8a)
Engrave me like a seal on your heart; take me as a mark on your arm. Strong is love, like death, and tenacious passion, like the grave. As a divine flame it is the burning fire of love. Neither the many waters can quench it, nor the rivers can extinguish it. If someone offered all his riches in exchange for love, he would only get contempt.
(Song 8:6-7)
Ah, if you kissed me with the kisses of your mouth… truly pleasant is your love, more than wine!
(Song 1:2)
Which apple tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among men. I love to sit in the shade of it; sweet to my palate is its fruit. He took me to the banquet hall, and raised his banner of love over me. Strengthen me with raisins, sustain me with apples, for I faint with love! I wish I could rest my head on his left! I wish his right hand would hug me!
(Song 2:3-6)
The man must fulfill his conjugal duty with his wife, and likewise the woman with her husband. The woman no longer has rights over her own body, but her husband. Neither does the man have a right to his own body, but his wife. Do not deny each other, unless by mutual agreement, and only for a time, to dedicate yourself to prayer. Don’t be long in coming together again; Otherwise, they may fall into the temptation of Satan, due to lack of self-control.
(1 Corinthians 7:3-5)
I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine.
(Song 6:3a)
Have you not read, replied Jesus, that in the beginning the Creator “made them male and female,” and said, “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall come to be one body”? So it’s not two anymore, it’s just one. Therefore, what God has united, let not man separate.
(Matthew 19:4-6)
Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of his wife, just as Christ is the head and Savior of the church, which is his body. Just as the church submits to Christ, so wives must submit to their husbands in everything.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy. He purified her, washing her with water through the word, to present her to himself as a radiant church, without spot or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. Likewise the husband should love his wife as his own body.
(Ephesians 5:22-28a)
He who loves his wife loves himself, for no one has ever hated his own body; on the contrary, he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body. “That is why a man will leave his father and his mother, and he will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one body.” This is a deep mystery; I mean Christ and the church. In any case, each of you also love his wife as himself, and let the wife respect her husband.
(Ephesians 5:28b-33)
Hate is a reason for dissension, but love covers all faults.
(Proverbs 10:12)
Everyone esteem marriage and marital fidelity, for God will judge adulterers and all who commit sexual immorality.
(Hebrews 13:4)
This new commandment I give you: love one another. Just as I have loved you, you too should love one another.
(John 13:34)
Therefore, as God’s chosen ones, saints and loved ones, clothe yourselves with tender affection and goodness, humility, kindness and patience, so that you bear with one another and forgive each other if anyone has a complaint against another. Just as the Lord forgave you, forgive you too.
(Colossians 3:12-13)
Above all, clothe yourselves in love, which is the perfect bond. Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you with all its richness: instruct and counsel one another with all wisdom; sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to God, with heartfelt gratitude. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do it in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
(Colossians 3:14-17)
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Husbands, love your wives and don’t be hard on them.
(Colossians 3:18-19)
The Lord God made a woman from the rib that he had taken from the man and brought her to the man, who exclaimed, “This is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She will be called “woman” because she was taken from man ».
That is why the man leaves his father and his mother, and joins his wife, and the two merge into one being.
(Genesis 2:22-24)
Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers a multitude of sins.
(1 Peter 4:8)
Rather, by living the truth in love, we will grow to be in all things like the one who is the head, that is, Christ.
(Ephesians 4:15)
Always humble and kind, patient, tolerant with each other in love. Strive to maintain the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.
(Ephesians 4:2-3)
And we have come to know and believe that God loves us. God is love. He who remains in love remains in God, and God in him. That love is fully manifested among us so that on the day of judgment we appear with all confidence, because in this world we have lived as Jesus lived. In love there is no fear, but perfect love casts out fear. He who fears awaits punishment, so he has not been perfected in love.
We love because he first loved us.
(1 John 4:16-19)
Enjoy life with the woman you love every day of the meaningless life that God has given you in this world.
(Ecclesiastes 9:9a)
Two are better than one, because they get more fruit for their effort. If one falls down, help him up. Woe to the one who falls and has no one to pick him up! If two lie down together, they will warm up; one alone how will it warm up?
(Ecclesiastes 4:9-11)
Only one can be beat, but two can resist. The three-strand rope is not easily broken!
(Ecclesiastes 4:12)
Treat others the way you want them to treat you.
(Luke 6:31)
So in everything you treat others as you want them to treat you. In fact, this is the law and the prophets.
(Matthew 7:12)
Blessed be your source! Enjoy with the wife of your youth! She is a loving gazelle, she is a lovely fawn. May her breasts always satisfy you! May her love captivate you all the time!
(Proverbs 5:18-19)
How beautiful you are, my love! How beautiful you are! Your eyes are two doves!
How beautiful you are, my beloved! You are a charm!
(Song 1:15-16)
And advise the young women to love their husbands and their children, to be sensible and pure, caretakers of the home, kind and submissive to their husbands, so that the word of God is not spoken ill of.
(Titus 2:4-5)
In the same way, you husbands, be understanding in your conjugal life, each one treating your wife with respect, since as a woman she is more delicate, and both are heirs to the pleasant gift of life. Thus nothing will hinder your prayers.
(1 Peter 3:7)
Precisely for this reason, strive to add virtue to your faith; to his virtue, understanding; to understanding, self-control; to self-control, constancy; to constancy, devotion to God; to devotion to God, brotherly affection; and to brotherly affection, love.
(2 Peter 1:5-7)
Dear brothers, let us love one another, because love comes from God, and everyone who loves has been born from him and knows him. He who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
(1 John 4:7-8)
Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you. Stay in my love.
(John 15:9)
Can two walk together without first agreeing?
(Amos 3:3)
Do nothing out of selfishness or vanity; rather, humbly regard others as superior to yourselves. Each one must look out not only for their own interests, but also for the interests of others.
(Philippians 2:3-4)
Do everything with love.
(1 Corinthians 16:14)
Make sure no one repays evil for evil; rather, always strive to do good, not only to each other, but to everyone.
(1 Thessalonians 5:15)
Love does no harm to others. So love is the fulfillment of the law.
(Romans 13:10)
Did not the Lord make one being, which is body and spirit? And why is it only one? Because he seeks offspring given by God. So take care of yourselves in your own spirit, and do not betray the wife of his youth.
(Malachi 2:15)
But, in view of so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
(1 Corinthians 7:2)
Do not harbor secret hatred against your brother, but frankly rebuke your neighbor so that you do not suffer the consequences of his sin. Do not be vindictive with your neighbor, nor hold a grudge against him. He loves your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.
(Leviticus 19:17-18)
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