Consider what Jesus taught:
Love God
- Matthew 22:37–38 — “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.”
- Mark 12:29–30 — “And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.”
- Luke 10:27 — “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind.”
Love Your Neighbor
- Matthew 22:39 — “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
- Mark 12:31 — “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
- Luke 10:27 — “And your neighbor as yourself.”
Love One Another
- John 13:34 — “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you.”
- John 13:35 — “By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 15:12 — “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.”
- John 15:17 — “These things I command you, so that you will love one another.”
Love Your Enemies
- Matthew 5:44 — “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.”
- Luke 6:27 — “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.”
- Luke 6:35 — “But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return.”
Love Those Who Cannot Repay You
- Luke 14:12–14 — Jesus teaches to invite the poor, crippled, lame, and blind rather than only friends and family who can repay you.
Love Jesus
- John 14:15 — “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.”
- John 14:21 — “Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me.”
- John 14:23 — “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word.”
- John 21:15–17 — Jesus repeatedly asks Peter, “Do you love me?”
The Greatest Commandments Summarized
- Matthew 22:40 — “On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
- Mark 12:33 — Loving God and neighbor “is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
The Good Samaritan Example of Love
- Luke 10:25–37 — Jesus defines neighbor-love through the parable of the Good Samaritan.
Love in Action / Mercy
- Matthew 25:35–40 — Caring for the hungry, thirsty, stranger, naked, sick, and prisoner is treated as done unto Christ Himself.

