Quotes About Love

Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.

All their evil appears at Gilgal, for there I hated them. I will drive them from My house for the wickedness of their deeds. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.

When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.

It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them in My arms, but they never realized that it was I who healed them.

I led them with cords of kindness, with ropes of love; I lifted the yoke from their necks and bent down to feed them.

How could I give you up, O Ephraim? How could I surrender you, O Israel? How could I make you like Admah? How could I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassion is stirred!

I will not execute the full fury of My anger; I will not turn back to destroy Ephraim. For I am God and not man—the Holy One among you—and I will not come in wrath.

But you must return to your God, maintaining love and justice, and always waiting on your God.

Jacob fled to the land of Aram and Israel worked for a wife—for a wife he tended sheep.

I will heal their apostasy; I will freely love them, for My anger has turned away from them.

Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.

So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.

Then the LORD became jealous for His land, and He spared His people.

Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?

You will show faithfulness to Jacob and loving devotion to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers from the days of old.

Sing for joy, O Daughter of Zion; shout aloud, O Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, O Daughter of Jerusalem!

The LORD your God is among you; He is mighty to save. He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you with His love; He will rejoice over you with singing.”

“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ëAdminister true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.

Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.í

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I am jealous for Zion with great zeal; I am jealous for her with great fervor.”

do not plot evil in your hearts against your neighbor, and do not love to swear falsely, for I hate all these things,” declares the LORD.

If someone asks him, ëWhat are these wounds on your chest?í he will answer, ëThese are the wounds I received in the house of my friends.í