80 Bible Verses about Agape Love

This is My command: Love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, that someone would lay down his life for his friends.

Love never ends.
But as for prophecies,
they will come to an end;
as for languages, they will cease;
as for knowledge, it will come to an end.

“But woe to you Pharisees! You give a tenth of mint, rue, and every kind of herb, and you bypass justice and love for God. These things you should have done without neglecting the others.

but I know you—that you have no love for God within you.

By this all people will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”

“As the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you. Remain in My love.

If you keep My commands you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commands and remain in His love.

No one has greater love than this, that someone would lay down his life for his friends.

I made Your name known to them
and will make it known,
so the love You have loved Me with
may be in them and I may be in them.

This hope will not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

But God proves His own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us!

Who can separate us from the love of Christ?
Can affliction or anguish or persecution
or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

height or depth, or any other created thing
will have the power to separate us
from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord!

Love must be without hypocrisy. Detest evil; cling to what is good.

Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Love, therefore, is the fulfillment of the law.

For if your brother is hurt by what you eat, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy that one Christ died for by what you eat.

Now I appeal to you, brothers, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to join with me in fervent prayers to God on my behalf.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision accomplishes anything; what matters is faith working through love.

For you were called to be free, brothers; only don’t use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another through love.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

For He chose us in Him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in His sight. In love

This is why, since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love that He had for us,

and that the Messiah may dwell in your hearts through faith. I pray that you, being rooted and firmly established in love,

and to know the Messiah’s love that surpasses knowledge, so you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

with all humility and gentleness, with patience, accepting one another in love,

But speaking the truth in love, let us grow in every way into Him who is the head—Christ.

From Him the whole body, fitted and knit together by every supporting ligament, promotes the growth of the body for building up itself in love by the proper working of each individual part.

And walk in love, as the Messiah also loved us and gave Himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

Peace to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

for we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all the saints

and he has told us about your love in the Spirit.

He has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son He loves.

I want their hearts to be encouraged and joined together in love, so that they may have all the riches of assured understanding and have the knowledge of God’s mystery—Christ.

Above all, put on love—the perfect bond of unity.

We recall, in the presence of our God and Father, your work of faith, labor of love, and endurance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ,

But now Timothy has come to us from you and brought us good news about your faith and love and reported that you always have good memories of us, wanting to see us, as we also want to see you.

And may the Lord cause you to increase and overflow with love for one another and for everyone, just as we also do for you.

But since we belong to the day, we must be serious and put the armor of faith and love on our chests, and put on a helmet of the hope of salvation.

and to regard them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.

We must always thank God for you, brothers. This is right, since your faith is flourishing and the love each one of you has for one another is increasing.

and with every unrighteous deception among those who are perishing. They perish because they did not accept the love of the truth in order to be saved.

May the Lord direct your hearts to God’s love and Christ’s endurance.

Now the goal of our instruction is love that comes from a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith.

And the grace of our Lord overflowed, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

But she will be saved through childbearing, if she continues in faith, love, and holiness, with good judgment.

Let no one despise your youth; instead, you should be an example to the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

But you, man of God, run from these things,
and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith,
love, endurance, and gentleness.

For God has not given us a spirit of fearfulness, but one of power, love, and sound judgment.

Hold on to the pattern of sound teaching that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

Flee from youthful passions, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

But you have followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, and endurance,

because I hear of your love and faith toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints.

For I have great joy and encouragement from your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

I appeal to you, instead, on the basis of love. I, Paul, as an elderly man and now also as a prisoner of Christ Jesus,

Above all, maintain an intense love for each other, since love covers a multitude of sins.

Greet one another with a kiss of love. Peace to all of you who are in Christ.

godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.

But whoever keeps His word, truly in him the love of God is perfected. This is how we know we are in Him:

Do not love the world or the things that belong to the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.

Look at how great a love the Father has given us that we should be called God’s children. And we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it didn’t know Him.

This is how we have come to know love: He laid down His life for us. We should also lay down our lives for our brothers.

If anyone has this world’s goods and sees his brother in need but closes his eyes to his need—how can God’s love reside in him?

Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent His One and Only Son into the world so that we might live through Him.

Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God remains in us and His love is perfected in us.

And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

In this, love is perfected with us so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, for we are as He is in this world.

There is no fear in love; instead, perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. So the one who fears has not reached perfection in love.

For this is what love for God is: to keep His commands. Now His commands are not a burden,

Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

And this is love: that we walk according to His commands. This is the command as you have heard it from the beginning: you must walk in love.

They have testified to your love in front of the church. You will do well to send them on their journey in a manner worthy of God,

May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.

These are the ones who are like dangerous reefs at your love feasts. They feast with you, nurturing only themselves without fear. They are waterless clouds carried along by winds; trees in late autumn—fruitless, twice dead, pulled out by the roots;

keep yourselves in the love of God, expecting the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ for eternal life.

But I have this against you: You have abandoned the love you had at first.

I know your works—your love, faithfulness, service, and endurance. Your last works are greater than the first.