Bible Quotes About Love

An Illustration of God’s Love for Idolatrous Israel The LORD said to me,“Go, show love to your wife again, even though she loves another man and continually commits adultery. Likewise, the LORD loves the Israelites although they turn to other gods and love to offer raisin cakes to idols.”

Hosea 3:1

Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap unfailing love. Break up the unplowed ground for yourselves, for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and showers deliverance on you.

Hosea 10:12

Israel’s Hired Lovers They have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey that wanders off. Ephraim has hired prostitutes as lovers.

Hosea 8:9

For their mother has committed adultery; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said,“I will seek out my lovers; they are the ones who give me my bread and my water, my wool, my flax, my olive oil, and my wine.

Hosea 2:5

I will commit myself to you forever; I will commit myself to you in righteousness and justice, in steadfast love and tender compassion.

Hosea 2:19

But you must return to your God, by maintaining love and justice, and by waiting for your God to return to you.

Hosea 12:6

Fertility Imagery: Plowing, Sowing, and Reaping Ephraim was a well-trained heifer who loved to thresh grain; I myself put a fine yoke on her neck. I will harness Ephraim. Let Judah plow! Let Jacob break up the unplowed ground for himself!

Hosea 10:11

Israel cries out to me,“My God, we acknowledge you!”

Hosea 8:2

I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like a lily, he will send down his roots like a cedar of Lebanon.

Hosea 14:5

Jacob in Aram, Israel in Egypt, and Ephraim in Trouble Jacob fled to the country of Aram, then Israel worked to acquire a wife; he tended sheep to pay for her.

Hosea 12:12