Quotes About Love

Then Hiram king of Tyre wrote a letter in reply to Solomon: “Because the LORD loves His people, He has set you over them as king.”

and said: “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven or on earth, keeping Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.

Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you to set you on His throne to be king for the LORD your God. Because your God loved Israel enough to establish them forever, He has made you king over them to carry out justice and righteousness.”

Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to confront him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, the wrath of the LORD is upon you.

For if you return to the LORD, your brothers and sons will receive mercy in the presence of their captors and will return to this land. For the LORD your God is gracious and merciful; He will not turn His face away from you if you return to Him.”

Again and again the LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to His people through His messengers because He had compassion on them and on His dwelling place.

Then I said: “O LORD, God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion with those who love Him and keep His commandments,

But in Your great compassion, You did not put an end to them; nor did You forsake them, for You are a gracious and compassionate God.

Did not King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations, and he was loved by his God, who made him king over all Israel—yet foreign women drew him into sin.

And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah (that is, Esther), the daughter of his uncle, because she did not have a father or mother. The young woman was lovely in form and appearance, and when her father and mother had died, Mordecai had taken her in as his own daughter.

And every day Mordecai would walk back and forth in front of the court of the harem to learn about Estherís welfare and what was happening to her.

And the king loved Esther more than all the other women, and she found grace and favor in his sight more than all of the other virgins. So he placed the royal crown upon her head and made her queen in place of Vashti.

For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.

A despairing man should have the kindness of his friend, even if he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

You have granted me life and loving devotion, and Your care has preserved my spirit.

All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.

when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me,

The dying man blessed me, and I made the widowís heart sing for joy.

I served as eyes to the blind and as feet to the lame.

if I have eaten my morsel alone, not sharing it with the fatherless—

though from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my motherís womb I guided the widow—

if his heart has not blessed me for warming him with the fleece of my sheep,

Surely no fear of me should terrify you; nor will my hand be heavy upon you.