During our Sunday afternoon service I shared several (36!) passages of Scripture from the NT that deal with the subject of “Christian Love.” I read many of them as an introduction to a series on this subject that we’ll look at over the next couple of weeks.

I thought I’d list those 36 passages again, giving the text of two that I mentioned were especially important for this series. They call us to grow more and more in our love for Christ and each other. I don’t have any feeling that we’re deficient in this area, but we must continue to show and grow in our love.

John 13:34-35

John 15:13

Rom 12:9-10

Rom 13:8-10

Rom 14:15

1 Cor 8:1

1 Cor 13:1-7

1 Cor 16:14

Gal 5:6

Gal 5:13-14

Gal 5:22

Eph 4:1-3

Eph 4:15-16

Eph 5:2

Phil 1:9-11 “This I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve the things that are excellent, in order to be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ; having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God”

Col 1:4

Col 3:14

1 Thess 1:3

1 Thess 3:12-13 “¹²and may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another, and for all people, just as we also do for you; ¹³so that He may establish your hearts without blame in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints”

1 Thess 4:9-10

1 Tim 1:5

1 Tim 6:11

2 Tim 1:7

2 Tim 2:22

Heb 10:24

Heb 13:1

1 Pet 1:22

1 Pet 2:17

1 Pet 4:8

2 Pet 1:7

1 John 2:10

1 John 3:10-11

1 John 3:14-18

1 John 3:23

1 John 4:7-8

1 John 4:11-12