Love Is First & Greatest Virtue!

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I believe that love rules faith, hope and all the commandments.

I was hoping that you Bible lovers could help supply passages to confirm my belief, or our belief!

THANK YOU!!!
 
I’ll get it started:
1 Corinthians
Chapter 13
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If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal.
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And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.
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If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing. **
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Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, (love) is not pompous, it is not inflated,
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it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,
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it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.
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It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
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Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing.
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For we know partially and we prophesy partially,
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but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
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When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things.
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At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known.
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So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
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Mathew Chapter 22:36-40

“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: “Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hand on these two commandments.”
 
Are there passages that say that God’s voice is love?

Or, love is God’s vioce?

Are there passages that say that God’s call is love?

Are there passages that join or connect God’s voice, call, word or something similar with love?
 
I believe it is this way, I do not know for sure.

God loves us.

We love God’s beauty and happiness because He loved us first.

Then we hope to have or enjoy His beauty, love and happiness.

I fell in love with the beauty of chastity, truth, wisdom and fortitude.

I hope that those beautiful beings become a part of my life.

However, faith in Jesus the Messiah gives them to me.

If I love chastity et cetera, they are started now.

If I love them they will be completed in Heaven.

Then faith tells us that the Promises made to Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, and David have been fulfilled in Jesus the Messiah. WE CAN HAVE THE BEAUTY OF TRUTH, CHASTITY, COURAGE AND ALL THE TRUTH CONTAINED IN CHRIST JESUS. CHRIST CONTAINS ALL OF THE PROMISES.
 
Hello Jim,

Do you understand that Jesus and the Father’s teaching is that love for the Father and love for Jesus is accomplished through obedience to God?

**NIV 1JO 5:3
**This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome.NIV JOH 14:15

"If you love me, you will obey what I command."

**NAB JOH 15:22 **

“If I had not come to them and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin; now, however, their sin cannot be excused. To hate me is to hate my Father. Had I not performed such works among them as no one has ever done before, they would not be guilty of sin; but as it is, they have seen, and they go on hating me and my Father.” NAB DEU 6:1

"These then are the commandments, the statutes and decrees which the LORD, your God, has ordered that you be taught to observe in the land into which you are crossing for conquest, so that you and your son and your grandson may fear the LORD, your God, and keep, throughout the days of your lives, all his statutes and commandments which I enjoin on you, and thus have long life. Hear then, Israel, and be careful to observe them, that you may grow and prosper the more in keeping with the promise of the LORD, the God of your fathers, to give you a land flowing with milk and honey." The great commandment. Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD alone! Therefore, you shall love the LORD, your God, with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength. Take to heart these words which I enjoin on you today. Drill them into your children. Speak of them at home and abroad, whether you are busy or at rest. Bind them at your wrist as a sign and let them be as a pendant on your forehead. Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates. NAB LUK 10:25

"Teacher, what must I do to inherit everlasting life?" Jesus answered him: "What is written in the law? How do you read it?" He replied:
"You shall love the Lord your God
with all your heart,
with all your soul,
with all your strength,
and with all your mind;
and your neighbor as yourself."
Jesus said, “You have answered correctly. Do this and you shall live.” NAB LUK 18:18

"Good teacher, **what must I do to share in everlasting life? **"Jesus said to him, “Why call me ‘good’? None is good but God alone. You know the commandments:
‘You shall not commit adultery.
You shall not kill.
You shall not steal.
You shall not bear dishonest witness.
Honor your father and your mother.’”
NAB DEU 11:13
"If, then, you truly heed my commandments which I enjoin on you today, loving and serving the LORD, you God, with all your heart and all your soul
 
Hello Jim,

I agree with you that it is love for God which is man’s greatest virtue.

If love for God were not important, then there would be no hatred, sin and damnation because God would not have allowed man freedom from the control of His Will. Love, hatred, sin and damnation all flow out from man’s free will. It is attaining free willed love for God, from man, which is so important to God that God allows the down side of human free will which is hatred, sin and damnation.

What is even possession of eternal life if one bares no fruit of love for God?

In Christ’s parables, Jesus points to true riches man can possess which is human love for God. When one looks at the imensity of creation and knowing that God is so imense that He created it all, it is stunning to know that we mere mortals have the capability and tremendous opportunity to love God. What is even more amaizing is that it is this human love for God which God desires with all His heart.

Parables Painting Pictures of Paradise

As a sower sows his crops, so has God sown His Word on earth. In the soil of human free willed hearts grows love and hate for God. Through the blood of Jesus, people bearing the fruits of love are harvested to become an eternal Kingdom for God.
 
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