'Loved' in the Bible

And Isaac led her into his mother Sarah's tent; and he took Rebecca, and she became his wife, and he loved her. And Isaac was comforted after the death of his mother.

And Isaac loved Esau, because venison was to his taste; and Rebecca loved Jacob.

And he went, and fetched and brought them to his mother. And his mother prepared a savoury dish such as his father loved.

And Jacob loved Rachel, and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.

And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they were in his eyes as single days, because he loved her.

And he went in also to Rachel; and he loved also Rachel more than Leah. And he served with him yet seven other years.

And his soul fastened on Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the maiden, and spoke consolingly to the maiden.

And Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was son of his old age; and he made him a vest of many colours.

And his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, and they hated him, and could not greet him with friendliness.

And because he loved thy fathers, and chose their seed after them, he brought thee out with his countenance, with his great power, out of Egypt,

but because Jehovah loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath Jehovah brought you out with a powerful hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

But Jehovah thy God would not listen to Balaam; and Jehovah thy God turned the curse into blessing unto thee, because Jehovah thy God loved thee.

After this he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Deli'lah.

but to Hannah he used to give a double portion, for he loved Hannah; but Jehovah had shut up her womb.

And David came to Saul, and stood before him; and he loved him greatly; and he became his armour-bearer.

And it came to pass, when he had ended speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

And Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

But all Israel and Judah loved David, for he went out and came in before them.

And Michal Saul's daughter loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing was right in his sight.

And Saul saw and knew that Jehovah was with David; and Michal Saul's daughter loved him.

And Jonathan caused David to swear again, by the love he had for him, for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her and lay with her; and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon; and Jehovah loved him.

And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David having a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar, Amnon the son of David loved her.

And Amnon hated her with an exceeding great hatred, for the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to her, Arise, be gone.

And Solomon loved Jehovah, walking in the statutes of David his father; only, he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the place of his father; for Hiram always loved David.

But king Solomon loved many foreign women, besides the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, Hittites;

And Huram king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because Jehovah loved his people, he made thee king over them.

Blessed be Jehovah thy God, who delighted in thee, to set thee on his throne, to be king to Jehovah thy God! Because thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore did he make thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.

And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines; for he had taken eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he begot twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

And he built towers in the desert and digged many cisterns; for he had much cattle, both in the lowland and on the plateau, husbandmen also and vinedressers on the mountains and in Carmel; for he loved husbandry.

And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins, and he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.

All my intimate friends abhor me, and they whom I loved are turned against me.

Jehovah, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thy glory dwelleth.

Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated wickedness; therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy companions.

He hath chosen our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

Thou hast loved evil rather than good, lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.

Thou hast loved all devouring words, O deceitful tongue!

But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved;

And he loved cursing; so let it come unto him. And he delighted not in blessing; and let it be far from him.

And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved;

And I will lift up my hands unto thy commandments, which I have loved, and I will meditate in thy statutes.

See how I have loved thy precepts: quicken me, O Jehovah, according to thy loving-kindness.

Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee; and I will give men for thee, and peoples for thy life.

All ye, gather yourselves together, and hear: which among them hath declared these things? He whom Jehovah hath loved shall execute his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.

and they shall spread them out to the sun and to the moon and to all the host of the heavens, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the ground.

Thus saith Jehovah to this people: Even so have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet; and Jehovah hath no delight in them: now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.

Jehovah hath appeared from afar unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love; therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn thee.

therefore, behold, I will gather all thy lovers with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all that thou hast loved, with all that thou hast hated, I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.

Rejoice not, Israel, exultingly, as the peoples; for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved harlot's hire upon every corn-floor.

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

I have loved you, saith Jehovah; but ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith Jehovah, and I loved Jacob,

Judah hath dealt unfaithfully, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the sanctuary of Jehovah which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.

And Jesus looking upon him loved him, and said to him, One thing lackest thou: go, sell whatever thou hast and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross.

For which cause I say to thee, Her many sins are forgiven; for she loved much; but he to whom little is forgiven loves little.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believes on him may not perish, but have life eternal.

And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men have loved darkness rather than light; for their works were evil.

Jesus said to them, If God were your father ye would have loved me, for I came forth from God and am come from him; for neither am I come of myself, but he has sent me.

Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

The Jews therefore said, Behold how he loved him!

for they loved glory from men rather than glory from God.

Now before the feast of the passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour had come that he should depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, loved them to the end.

Now there was at table one of his disciples in the bosom of Jesus, whom Jesus loved.

A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

He that has my commandments and keeps them, he it is that loves me; but he that loves me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will manifest myself to him.

Ye have heard that I have said unto you, I go away and I am coming to you. If ye loved me ye would rejoice that I go to the Father, for my Father is greater than I.

As the Father has loved me, I also have loved you: abide in my love.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.

I in them and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and that thou hast loved them as thou hast loved me.

And I have made known to them thy name, and will make it known; that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them and I in them.

Jesus therefore, seeing his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, says to his mother, Woman, behold thy son.

That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved says to Peter, It is the Lord. Simon Peter therefore, having heard that it was the Lord, girded his overcoat on him (for he was naked), and cast himself into the sea;

Peter, turning round, sees the disciple whom Jesus loved following, who also leaned at supper on his breast, and said, Lord, who is it that delivers thee up?

But in all these things we more than conquer through him that has loved us.

according as it is written, I have loved Jacob, and I have hated Esau.

Now I shall most gladly spend and be utterly spent for your souls, if even in abundantly loving you I should be less loved.

I am crucified with Christ, and no longer live, I, but Christ lives in me; but in that I now live in flesh, I live by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who has loved me and given himself for me.

but God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love wherewith he loved us,

and walk in love, even as the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour.

Husbands, love your own wives, even as the Christ also loved the assembly, and has delivered himself up for it,

But our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us, and given us eternal consolation and good hope by grace,

for Demas has forsaken me, having loved the present age, and is gone to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

Thou hast loved righteousness and hast hated lawlessness; therefore God, thy God, has anointed thee with oil of gladness above thy companions.

having left the straight way they have gone astray, having followed in the path of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the reward of unrighteousness;

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.

Beloved, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

We love because he has first loved us.

Behold, I make them of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews, and are not, but lie; behold, I will cause that they shall come and shall do homage before thy feet, and shall know that I have loved thee.

and they have overcome him by reason of the blood of the Lamb, and by reason of the word of their testimony, and have not loved their life even unto death.