Love motivated Jesus, who is your example to do all things with love.

Love motivated Jesus, who is your example to do all things with love.

“Let all that you do be done with love [agape].” (1Cor 16:14)

“But whoever keeps His word, truly the love [agape] of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him.” (1Jn 2:5)

“We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is fitting, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love [agape] of every one of you all abounds toward each other” (2Thes 1:3)

“Therefore My Father loves [agapao] Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again.” (Jn 10:17)

“Beloved, let us love [agapao] one another, for love [agape] is of God; and everyone who loves [agapao] is born of God and knows God.” (1Jn 4:7)

“Love suffers long and is kind…but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” (1Cor 13:4,6,7)

“that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love [agape], and attaining to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ” (Col 2:2)

“remembering without ceasing your work of faith, labor of love [agape], and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of our God and Father” (1Thes 1:3)

“Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.” (Rom 12:9)

“Love [agape] does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love [agape] is the fulfillment of the law.” (Rom 13:10)

“For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love [agape] and of a sound mind.” (2Tim 1:7)

“For this is the love [agape] of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.” (1Jn 5:3)

“By this we know that we love [agapao] the children of God, when we love [agapao] God and keep His commandments.” (1Jn 5:2)

“He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he 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.” (Jn 14:21)

“Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone 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.” (Jn 14:23)

“But that the world may know that I love [agapao] the Father, and as the Father gave Me commandment, so I do. Arise, let us go from here.” (Jn 14:31)

“As the Father loved [agapao] Me, I also have loved [agapao] you; abide in My love [agape].” (Jn 15:9)

Reading: 1Cor 16; 2Cor 1; Lk 2