80 Bible Verses about Agape Love

My commandment is this -- to love one another just as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this -- that one lays down his life for his friends.

Love never ends. But if there are prophecies, they will be set aside; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be set aside.

"But woe to you Pharisees! You give a tenth of your mint, rue, and every herb, yet you neglect justice and love for God! But you should have done these things without neglecting the others.

but I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.

Everyone will know by this that you are my disciples -- if you have love for one another."

"Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain in my love.

If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commandments and remain in his love.

No one has greater love than this -- that one lays down his life for his friends.

I made known your name to them, and I will continue to make it known, so that the love you have loved me with may be in them, and I may be in them."

And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Love must be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil, cling to what is good.

Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

For if your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy by your food someone for whom Christ died.

Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to join fervently with me in prayer to God on my behalf.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision carries any weight -- the only thing that matters is faith working through love.

For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity to indulge your flesh, but through love serve one another.

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

For he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world that we may be holy and unblemished in his sight in love.

For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,

But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, so that, because you have been rooted and grounded in love,

and thus to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

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

But practicing the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ, who is the head.

From him the whole body grows, fitted and held together through every supporting ligament. As each one does its part, the body grows in love.

and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

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

since we heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have for all the saints.

who also told us of your love in the Spirit.

He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son he loves,

My goal is that their hearts, having been knit together in love, may be encouraged, and that they may have all the riches that assurance brings in their understanding of the knowledge of the mystery of God, namely, Christ,

And to all these virtues add love, which is the perfect bond.

because we recall in the presence of our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and endurance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

But now Timothy has come to us from you and given us the good news of your faith and love and that you always think of us with affection and long to see us just as we also long to see you!

And may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we do for you,

But since we are of the day, we must stay sober by putting on the breastplate of faith and love and as a helmet our hope for salvation.

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

We ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith flourishes more and more and the love of each one of you all for one another is ever greater.

and with every kind of evil deception directed against those who are perishing, because they found no place in their hearts for the truth so as to be saved.

Now may the Lord direct your hearts toward the love of God and the endurance of Christ.

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

and our Lord's grace was abundant, bringing faith and love in Christ Jesus.

But she will be delivered through childbearing, if she continues in faith and love and holiness with self-control.

Let no one look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in your speech, conduct, love, faithfulness, and purity.

But you, as a person dedicated to God, keep away from all that. Instead pursue righteousness, godliness, faithfulness, love, endurance, and gentleness.

For God did not give us a Spirit of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Hold to the standard of sound words that you heard from me and do so with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

But keep away from youthful passions, and pursue righteousness, faithfulness, love, and peace, in company with others who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

You, however, have followed my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance,

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

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

I would rather appeal to you on the basis of love -- I, Paul, an old man and even now a prisoner for the sake of Christ Jesus --

Above all keep your love for one another fervent, because love covers a multitude of sins.

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

to godliness, brotherly affection; to brotherly affection, unselfish love.

But whoever obeys his word, truly in this person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in him.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

(See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God's children -- and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.

But whoever has the world's possessions and sees his fellow Christian in need and shuts off his compassion against him, how can the love of God reside in such a person?

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

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

By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him.

In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

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

By this love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because just as Jesus is, so also are we in this world.

There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears punishment has not been perfected in love.

For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments do not weigh us down,

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.

(Now this is love: that we walk according to his commandments.) This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning; thus you should walk in it.

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

May mercy, peace, and love be lavished on you!

These men are dangerous reefs at your love feasts, feasting without reverence, feeding only themselves. They are waterless clouds, carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit -- twice dead, uprooted;

maintain yourselves in the love of God, while anticipating the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that brings eternal life.

But I have this against you: You have departed from your first love!

I know your deeds: your love, faith, service, and steadfast endurance. In fact, your more recent deeds are greater than your earlier ones.