14 Bible Verses About Compelled by Love
14 Bible verses about Compelled by Love to read, reflect on, and commit to memory.
It is the love of Christ that drives us on. We have reached this judgment: one has died on behalf of all, and so all have died.
He died on behalf of all, so that those who live would no longer live for their own sake, but for the sake of the one who died and was raised on their behalf.
Preaching the gospel gives me no reason to be proud, for I am under compulsion. It will go hard with me if I do not preach the gospel!
I could even wish that I myself were under a curse, cut off from Christ, on behalf of my brothers and sisters, my own people by human descent.
After they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” Peter said to him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my lambs.”
It is the love of Christ that drives us on. We have reached this judgment: one has died on behalf of all, and so all have died. He died on behalf of all, so that those who live would no longer live for their own sake, but for the sake of the one who died and was raised on their behalf.
If I say, “I will not mention him or speak in his name anymore,” then it is like a fire burning in my heart, shut up inside my bones. I wear myself out holding it in, and I cannot.
With the weak I became weak, to win over the weak. To all people I have become all things, so that one way or another I may save some.
I am under obligation to Greeks and to non-Greeks, to the educated and to the uneducated.
But I set no value on my life, as if it were precious to me. All I want is to run my course to the end and carry out the ministry I received from the Lord Jesus: to bear full witness to the gospel of the grace of God.
Brothers and sisters, what my heart longs for, and what I ask God for them, is that they may be saved.
The master told the servant, ‘Go out to the country roads and the hedgerows, and press people to come in, so that my house will be full.
Jesus said to them, “My food is doing the will of the one who sent me, and bringing his work to completion.”
When he saw the crowds, he felt deep pity for them, because they were worn out and abandoned, like sheep with no shepherd.