MATT. XXII, 37. Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38. This is the first and great commandment. DEUT. VI, 5. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. DEUT. XI, 1. Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, always. JOSH. XXII, 5. But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the Lord charged you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul. PROV. XXIII, 26. My son, give me thy heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways. 1 COR. XVI, 22. If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema maranatha. JUDE, 21. Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. DEUT. VII, 9. Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations. DEUT. XI, 13. And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart, and with all your soul, 14. That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil. 15. And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full. PSALM CXLV, 20. The Lord preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy. PROV. VIII, 17. I love them that love me: and those that seek me early shall find me. JOHN XIV, 21. He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. 22. Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world? 23. Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. JAMES I, 12. Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. 1 COR. II, 9. But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. ROM. VIII, 28. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose. (2.) _The love of God._