How many times does the bible refer to God's love?

Answer 1

In the King James version

the phrase - God so loved - appears twice

# Joh 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. # 1 Joh 4:11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

Answer 2

There are 133 verses in which "my God" is mentioned 143 times. They are listed below.

1. Genesis 28:21

so that I return safely to my father's house, then the LORD will be my God

2. Exodus 15:2

The LORD is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him.

3. Numbers 22:18

But Balaam answered them, "Even if Balak gave me his palace filled with silver and gold, I could not do anything great or small to go beyond the command of the LORD my God.

4. Deuteronomy 4:5

See, I have taught you decrees and laws as the LORD my God commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land you are entering to take possession of it.

5. Deuteronomy 26:14

I have not eaten any of the sacred portion while I was in mourning, nor have I removed any of it while I was unclean, nor have I offered any of it to the dead. I have obeyed the LORD my God; I have done everything you commanded me.

6. Joshua 9:23

You are now under a curse: You will never cease to serve as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God."

7. Joshua 14:8

but my brothers who went up with me made the hearts of the people melt with fear. I, however, followed the LORD my Godwholeheartedly.

8. Joshua 14:9

So on that day Moses swore to me, 'The land on which your feet have walked will be your inheritance and that of your children forever, because you have followed the LORD my Godwholeheartedly.'

9. Ruth 1:16

But Ruth replied, "Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.

10. 2 Samuel 22:3

my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation. He is my stronghold, my refuge and my savior- from violent men you save me.

11. 2 Samuel 22:7

In my distress I called to the LORD; I called out to my God. From his temple he heard my voice; my cry came to his ears.

12. 2 Samuel 22:22

For I have kept the ways of the LORD; I have not done evil by turning from my God.

13. 2 Samuel 22:30

With your help I can advance against a troop ; with my God I can scale a wall.

14. 2 Samuel 24:24

But the king replied to Araunah, "No, I insist on paying you for it. I will not sacrifice to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing." So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen and paid fifty shekels of silver for them.

15. 1 Kings 3:7

"Now, O LORD my God, you have made your servant king in place of my father David. But I am only a little child and do not know how to carry out my duties.

16. 1 Kings 5:4

But now the LORD my God has given me rest on every side, and there is no adversary or disaster.

17. 1 Kings 5:5

I intend, therefore, to build a temple for the Name of the LORD my God, as the LORD told my father David, when he said, 'Your son whom I will put on the throne in your place will build the temple for my Name.'

18. 1 Kings 8:28

Yet give attention to your servant's prayer and his plea for mercy, O LORD my God. Hear the cry and the prayer that your servant is praying in your presence this day.

19. 1 Kings 17:20

Then he cried out to the LORD, "O LORD my God, have you brought tragedy also upon this widow I am staying with, by causing her son to die?"

20. 1 Kings 17:21

Then he stretched himself out on the boy three times and cried to the LORD, "O LORD my God, let this boy's life return to him!"

21. 1 Chronicles 17:25

"You, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build a house for him. So your servant has found courage to pray to you.

22. 1 Chronicles 21:17

David said to God, "Was it not I who ordered the fighting men to be counted? I am the one who has sinned and done wrong. These are but sheep. What have they done? O LORD my God, let your hand fall upon me and my family, but do not let this plague remain on your people."

23. 1 Chronicles 22:7

David said to Solomon: "My son, I had it in my heart to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God.

24. 1 Chronicles 28:20

David also said to Solomon his son, "Be strong and courageous, and do the work. Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD God, my God, is with you. He will not fail you or forsake you until all the work for the service of the temple of the LORD is finished.

25. 1 Chronicles 29:2

With all my resources I have provided for the temple of my God-gold for the gold work, silver for the silver, bronze for the bronze, iron for the iron and wood for the wood, as well as onyx for the settings, turquoise, stones of various colors, and all kinds of fine stone and marble-all of these in large quantities.

26. 1 Chronicles 29:3

Besides, in my devotion to the temple of my God I now give my personal treasures of gold and silver for the temple of my God, over and above everything I have provided for this holy temple:

27. 1 Chronicles 29:17

I know, my God, that you test the heart and are pleased with integrity. All these things have I given willingly and with honest intent. And now I have seen with joy how willingly your people who are here have given to you.

28. 2 Chronicles 2:4

Now I am about to build a temple for the Name of the LORD my God and to dedicate it to him for burning fragrant incense before him, for setting out the consecrated bread regularly, and for making burnt offerings every morning and evening and on Sabbaths and New Moons and at the appointed feasts of the LORD our God. This is a lasting ordinance for Israel.

29. 2 Chronicles 6:19

Yet give attention to your servant's prayer and his plea for mercy, O LORD my God. Hear the cry and the prayer that your servant is praying in your presence.

30. 2 Chronicles 6:40

"Now, my God, may your eyes be open and your ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.

31. 2 Chronicles 18:13

But Micaiah said, "As surely as the LORD lives, I can tell him only what my God says."

32. Ezra 7:28

and who has extended his good favor to me before the king and his advisers and all the king's powerful officials. Because the hand of the LORD my God was on me, I took courage and gathered leading men from Israel to go up with me.

33. Ezra 9:5

Then, at the evening sacrifice, I rose from my self-abasement, with my tunic and cloak torn, and fell on my knees with my hands spread out to the LORD my God

34. Ezra 9:6

and prayed: "O my God, I am too ashamed and disgraced to lift up my face to you, my God, because our sins are higher than our heads and our guilt has reached to the heavens.

35. Nehemiah 2:8

And may I have a letter to Asaph, keeper of the king's forest, so he will give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel by the temple and for the city wall and for the residence I will occupy?" And because the gracious hand of my God was upon me, the king granted my requests.

36. Nehemiah 2:12

I set out during the night with a few men. I had not told anyone what my God had put in my heart to do for Jerusalem. There were no mounts with me except the one I was riding on.

37. Nehemiah 2:18

I also told them about the gracious hand of my God upon me and what the king had said to me. They replied, "Let us start rebuilding." So they began this good work.

38. Nehemiah 5:19

Remember me with favor, O my God, for all I have done for these people.

39. Nehemiah 6:14

Remember Tobiah and Sanballat, O my God, because of what they have done; remember also the prophetess Noadiah and the rest of the prophets who have been trying to intimidate me.

40. Nehemiah 7:5

So my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials and the common people for registration by families. I found the genealogical record of those who had been the first to return. This is what I found written there:

41. Nehemiah 13:14

Remember me for this, O my God, and do not blot out what I have so faithfully done for the house of my God and its services.

42. Nehemiah 13:22

Then I commanded the Levites to purify themselves and go and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember me for this also, O my God, and show mercy to me according to your great love.

43. Nehemiah 13:29

Remember them, O my God, because they defiled the priestly office and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.

44. Nehemiah 13:31

I also made provision for contributions of wood at designated times, and for the firstfruits. Remember me with favor, O my God.

45. Psalm 3:7

Arise, O LORD! Deliver me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.

46. Psalm 5:2

Listen to my cry for help, my King and my God, for to you I pray.

47. Psalm 7:1

[ A shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning Cush, a Benjamite. ] O LORD my God, I take refuge in you; save and deliver me from all who pursue me,

48. Psalm 7:3

O LORD my God, if I have done this and there is guilt on my hands-

49. Psalm 7:6

Arise, O LORD, in your anger; rise up against the rage of my enemies. Awake, my God; decree justice.

50. Psalm 13:3

Look on me and answer, O LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death;

51. Psalm 18:2

The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my Godis my rock, in whom I take refuge. He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

52. Psalm 18:6

In my distress I called to the LORD; I cried to my Godfor help. From his temple he heard my voice; my cry came before him, into his ears.

53. Psalm 18:21

For I have kept the ways of the LORD; I have not done evil by turning from my God.

54. Psalm 18:28

You, O LORD, keep my lamp burning; my God turns my darkness into light.

55. Psalm 18:29

With your help I can advance against a troop ; with my God I can scale a wall.

56. Psalm 22:1

[ For the director of music. To the tune of "The Doe of the Morning." A psalm of David. ] My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from the words of my groaning?

57. Psalm 22:2

O my God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, and am not silent.

58. Psalm 22:10

From birth I was cast upon you; from my mother's womb you have been my God.

59. Psalm 25:2

in you I trust, O my God. Do not let me be put to shame, nor let my enemies triumph over me.

60. Psalm 30:2

O LORD my God, I called to you for help and you healed me.

61. Psalm 30:12

that my heart may sing to you and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give you thanks forever.

62. Psalm 31:14

But I trust in you, O LORD; I say, "You are my God."

63. Psalm 35:23

Awake, and rise to my defense! Contend for me, my God and Lord.

64. Psalm 35:24

Vindicate me in your righteousness, O LORD my God; do not let them gloat over me.

65. Psalm 38:15

I wait for you, O LORD; you will answer, O Lord my God.

66. Psalm 38:21

O LORD, do not forsake me; be not far from me, O my God.

67. Psalm 40:5

Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders you have done. The things you planned for us no one can recount to you; were I to speak and tell of them, they would be too many to declare.

68. Psalm 40:8

I desire to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart."

69. Psalm 40:17

Yet I am poor and needy; may the Lord think of me. You are my help and my deliverer; O my God, do not delay.

70. Psalm 42:6

my God. My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon-from Mount Mizar.

71. Psalm 42:11

Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.

72. Psalm 43:4

Then will I go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and my delight. I will praise you with the harp, O God, my God.

73. Psalm 43:5

Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.

74. Psalm 44:4

You are my King and my God, who decrees victories for Jacob.

75. Psalm 63:1

[ A psalm of David. When he was in the Desert of Judah. ] O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

76. Psalm 68:24

Your procession has come into view, O God, the procession of my God and King into the sanctuary.

77. Psalm 69:3

I am worn out calling for help; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

78. Psalm 71:4

Deliver me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of evil and cruel men.

79. Psalm 71:12

Be not far from me, O God; come quickly, O my God, to help me.

80. Psalm 71:22

I will praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, O my God; I will sing praise to you with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel.

81. Psalm 83:13

Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.

82. Psalm 84:3

Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young- a place near your altar, O LORD Almighty, my King and my God.

83. Psalm 84:10

Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

84. Psalm 86:2

Guard my life, for I am devoted to you. You are my God; save your servant who trusts in you.

85. Psalm 86:12

I will praise you, O Lord my God, with all my heart; I will glorify your name forever.

86. Psalm 89:26

He will call out to me, 'You are my Father, my God, the Rock my Savior.'

87. Psalm 91:2

I will say of the LORD, "He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust."

88. Psalm 94:22

But the LORD has become my fortress, and my God the rock in whom I take refuge.

89. Psalm 102:24

So I said: "Do not take me away, O my God, in the midst of my days; your years go on through all generations.

90. Psalm 104:1

Praise the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, you are very great; you are clothed with splendor and majesty.

91. Psalm 104:33

I will sing to the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.

92. Psalm 109:26

Help me, O LORD my God; save me in accordance with your love.

93. Psalm 118:28

You are my God, and I will give you thanks; you are my God, and I will exalt you.

94. Psalm 119:115

Away from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commands of my God!

95. Psalm 140:6

O LORD, I say to you, "You are my God." Hear, O LORD, my cry for mercy.

96. Psalm 143:10

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God; may your good Spirit lead me on level ground.

97. Psalm 145:1

[ A psalm of praise. Of David. ] I will exalt you, my Godthe King; I will praise your name for ever and ever.

98. Psalm 146:2

I will praise the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.

99. Proverbs 30:9

Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, 'Who is the LORD ?' Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.

100. Isaiah 7:13

Then Isaiah said, "Hear now, you house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of men? Will you try the patience of my God also?

101. Isaiah 25:1

[ Praise to the LORD ] O LORD, you are my God; I will exalt you and praise your name, for in perfect faithfulness you have done marvelous things, things planned long ago.

102. Isaiah 40:27

Why do you say, O Jacob, and complain, O Israel, "My way is hidden from the LORD; my cause is disregarded by my God"?

103. Isaiah 44:17

From the rest he makes a god, his idol; he bows down to it and worships. He prays to it and says, "Save me; you are my god."

104. Isaiah 49:4

But I said, "I have labored to no purpose; I have spent my strength in vain and for nothing. Yet what is due me is in the LORD's hand, and my reward is with my God."

105. Isaiah 49:5

And now the LORD says- he who formed me in the womb to be his servant to bring Jacob back to him and gather Israel to himself, for I am honored in the eyes of the LORD and my God has been my strength-

106. Isaiah 57:21

"There is no peace," says my God, "for the wicked."

107. Isaiah 61:10

I delight greatly in the LORD; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

108. Jeremiah 31:18

"I have surely heard Ephraim's moaning: 'You disciplined me like an unruly calf, and I have been disciplined. Restore me, and I will return, because you are the LORD my God.

109. Daniel 4:8

Finally, Daniel came into my presence and I told him the dream. (He is called Belteshazzar, after the name of my god, and the spirit of the holy gods is in him.)

110. Daniel 6:22

My God sent his angel, and he shut the mouths of the lions. They have not hurt me, because I was found innocent in his sight. Nor have I ever done any wrong before you, O king."

111. Daniel 9:4

I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed: "O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with all who love him and obey his commands,

112. Daniel 9:19

O Lord, listen! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, hear and act! For your sake, O my God, do not delay, because your city and your people bear your Name."

113. Daniel 9:20

[ The Seventy "Sevens" ] While I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and making my request to the LORD my God for his holy hill-

114. Hosea 2:23

I will plant her for myself in the land; I will show my love to the one I called 'Not my loved one. ' I will say to those called 'Not my people, ' 'You are my people'; and they will say, 'You are my God.' "

115. Hosea 9:8

The prophet, along with my God, is the watchman over Ephraim, yet snares await him on all his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.

116. Hosea 9:17

My God will reject them because they have not obeyed him; they will be wanderers among the nations.

117. Joel 1:13

[ A Call to Repentance ] Put on sackcloth, O priests, and mourn; wail, you who minister before the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you who minister before my God; for the grain offerings and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.

118. Jonah 2:6

To the roots of the mountains I sank down; the earth beneath barred me in forever. But you brought my life up from the pit, O LORD my God.

119. Micah 7:7

But as for me, I watch in hope for the LORD, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.

120. Habakkuk 1:12

[ Habakkuk's Second Complaint ] O LORD, are you not from everlasting? My God, my Holy One, we will not die. O LORD, you have appointed them to execute judgment; O Rock, you have ordained them to punish.

121. Zechariah 11:4

[ Two Shepherds ] This is what the LORD my God says: "Pasture the flock marked for slaughter.

122. Zechariah 14:5

You will flee by my mountain valley, for it will extend to Azel. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.

123. Matthew 27:46

About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?"-which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

124. Mark 15:34

And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?"-which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

125. John 20:17

Jesus said, "Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet returned to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, 'I am returning to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.' "

126. John 20:28

Thomas said to him, "My Lord and my God!"

127. Romans 1:8

[ Paul's Longing to Visit Rome ] First, I thank my Godthrough Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being reported all over the world.

128. 2 Corinthians 12:21

I am afraid that when I come again my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, sexual sin and debauchery in which they have indulged.

129. Philippians 1:3

[ Thanksgiving and Prayer ] I thank my God every time I remember you.

130. Philippians 4:19

And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.

131. Philemon 1:4

[ Thanksgiving and Prayer ] I always thank my God as I remember you in my prayers,

132. Revelation 3:2

Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your deeds complete in the sight of my God.

133. Revelation 3:12

Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will he leave it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on him my new name.

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