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Psalms 31:23
Oh, love the Lord, all you His saints! For the Lord preserves the faithful, And fully repays the proud person.
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Deuteronomy 6:5
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
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1 Corinthians 8 3
But if anyone loves God, this one is known by Him.
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Deuteronomy 30:16
in that I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, that you may live and multiply; and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you go to possess.
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Deuteronomy 10:12
“ And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
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1 Kings 3 6
And Solomon said:“ You have shown great mercy to Your servant David my father, because he walked before You in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with You; You have continued this great kindness for him, and You have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
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1 Kings 3 14
So if you walk in My ways, to keep My statutes and My commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”
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Deuteronomy 30:20
that you may love the Lord your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days; and that you may dwell in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.”
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1 John 4 19-1 John 4 20
We love Him because He first loved us.If someone says,“ I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
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2 Chronicles 17 3-2 Chronicles 17 5
Now the Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the former ways of his father David; he did not seek the Baals,but sought the God of his father, and walked in His commandments and not according to the acts of Israel.Therefore the Lord established the kingdom in his hand; and all Judah gave presents to Jehoshaphat, and he had riches and honor in abundance.
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2 Kings 18 22
But if you say to me,‘ We trust in the Lord our God,’ is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and said to Judah and Jerusalem,‘ You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?”’
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John 14:21
He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”
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Mark 12:29-30
Jesus answered him,“ The first of all the commandments is:‘ Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment.
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1 Kings 15 3
And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; his heart was not loyal to the Lord his God, as was the heart of his father David.
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2 Kings 14 4
However the high places were not taken away, and the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
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1 Kings 11 38
Then it shall be, if you heed all that I command you, walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight, to keep My statutes and My commandments, as My servant David did, then I will be with you and build for you an enduring house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.
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1 Kings 15 14
But the high places were not removed. Nevertheless Asa’s heart was loyal to the Lord all his days.
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James 2:5
Listen, my beloved brethren: Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?
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2 Kings 15 4
except that the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
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1 Kings 22 43
And he walked in all the ways of his father Asa. He did not turn aside from them, doing what was right in the eyes of the Lord. Nevertheless the high places were not taken away, for the people offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.
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2 Samuel 12 24-2 Samuel 12 25
Then David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her and lay with her. So she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. Now the Lord loved him,and He sent word by the hand of Nathan the prophet: So he called his name Jedidiah, because of the Lord.
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John 14:15
“ If you love Me, keep My commandments.
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1John 5:2-3
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1 Kings 11 4
For it was so, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned his heart after other gods; and his heart was not loyal to the Lord his God, as was the heart of his father David.
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James 1:12
Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.
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1 Kings 11 6
Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord, and did not fully follow the Lord, as did his father David.
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2 Kings 12 3
But the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
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1 Chronicles 28 8-1 Chronicles 28 9
Now therefore, in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the Lord, and in the hearing of our God, be careful to seek out all the commandments of the Lord your God, that you may possess this good land, and leave it as an inheritance for your children after you forever.“ As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a loyal heart and with a willing mind; for the Lord searches all hearts and understands all the intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will cast you off forever.
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2 Kings 15 35
However the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. He built the Upper Gate of the house of the Lord.
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2 Kings 18 4
He removed the high places and broke the sacred pillars, cut down the wooden image and broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made; for until those days the children of Israel burned incense to it, and called it Nehushtan.
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Deuteronomy 30:6
And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
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Matthew 22:37
Jesus said to him,“‘ You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
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Romans 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
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1 Kings 9 4
Now if you walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and My judgments,
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1 Kings 2 3-1 Kings 2 4
And keep the charge of the Lord your God: to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commandments, His judgments, and His testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn;that the Lord may fulfill His word which He spoke concerning me, saying,‘ If your sons take heed to their way, to walk before Me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul,’ He said,‘ you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.’
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1 Kings 11 34
However I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand, because I have made him ruler all the days of his life for the sake of My servant David, whom I chose because he kept My commandments and My statutes.