What did “love” mean in the O.T.? Deut. 6:4 – 5 is a command and YaHUsha quoted from it in Matt. 22:37 – 39.
Deut. 6:4 Hear, O Israel: YaHUaH our Elohim is one YaHUaH:
Deut. 6:5 And thou shall love YaHUaH your Elohim with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.
Mat 22:37 YaHUsha said unto him, you shall love YaHUaH your Elohim with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.
Mat 22:38 This is the first and great commandment.
Mat 22:39 And the second is like unto it, you shall love your neighbour as yourself.
Mat 22:40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
“To love” is “ahavah” in Hebrew and it comes from a root that means “to give”.
John 3:16 For Elohim so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Elohim is Love …
1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of Elohim; and every one that loves is born of Elohim, and knows Elohim.
1 John 4:8 He that loves not knows not Elohim; for Elohim is love.
1 John 4:9 In this was manifested the love of Elohim toward us, because that Elohim sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.
1 John 4:10 Herein is love, not that we loved Elohim, but that He loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1 John 4:11 Beloved, if Elohim so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
1 John 4:12 No man has seen Elohim at any time. If we love one another, Elohim dwells in us, and his love is perfected in us.
1 John 4:13 Hereby know we that we dwell in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of his Spirit.
1 John 4:14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
1 John 4:15 Whosoever shall confess that YaHUsha is the Son of Elohim, Elohim dwells in him, and he in Elohim.
1 John 4:16 And we have known and believed the love that Elohim has to us. Elohim is love; and he that dwells in love dwells in Elohim, and Elohim in him.
1 John 4:17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world.
1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear: because fear has torment. He that fears is not made perfect in love.
1 John 4:19 We love Him, because He first loved us.
1 John 4:20 If a man say, I love Elohim, and hates his brother, he is a liar: for he that loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love Elohim whom he hath not seen?
1 John 4:21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loves Elohim love his brother also.
