47 Bible Verses about Being Loved

God's love for us has been manifested in that He has sent His only Son into the world so that we may have Life through Him.

"If you love those who love you, what credit is it to you? Why, even bad men love those who love them.

We love because God first loved us.

And over all these put on love, which is the perfect bond of union;

This is love indeed--we did not love God, but He loved us and sent His Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

See what marvellous love the Father has bestowed upon us--that we should be called God's children: and that is what we are. For this reason the world does not recognize us--because it has not known Him.

But God gives proof of His love to us in Christ's dying for us while we were still sinners.

And as for me, most gladly will I spend all I have and be utterly spent for your salvation.

in order that their hearts may be cheered, they themselves being welded together in love and enjoying all the advantages of a reasonable certainty, till at last they attain the full knowledge of God's truth, which is Christ Himself.

Dear children, let us not love in words only nor with the lips, but in deed and in truth.

united by mutual love, with harmony of feeling giving your minds to one and the same object.

The love of which I am speaking consists in our living in obedience to God's commands. God's command is that you should live in obedience to what you all heard from the very beginning.

Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If any one loves the world, there is no love in his heart for the Father.

Dear friends, let us love one another; for love has its origin in God, and every one who loves has become a child of God and is beginning to know God.

And, as for us, we know the love which God has for us, and we confide in it. God is love, and he who continues to love continues in union with God, and God continues in union with him.

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the intense love which He bestowed on us,

Love has in it no element of fear; but perfect love drives away fear, because fear involves pain, and if a man gives way to fear, there is something imperfect in his love.

We know what love is--through Christ's having laid down His life on our behalf; and in the same way we ought to lay down our lives for our brother men.

And so there remain Faith, Hope, Love--these three; and of these the greatest is Love.

He who is destitute of love has never had any knowledge of God; because God is love.

yes, to attain to a knowledge of the knowledge-surpassing love of Christ, so that you may be made complete in accordance with God's own standard of completeness.

for the Father Himself holds you dear, because you have held me dear and have believed that I came from the Father's presence.

It is by this that every one will know that you are my disciples--if you love one another."

As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you: continue in my love.

I in them and Thou in me; that they may stand perfected in one; that the world may come to understand that Thou didst send me and hast loved them with the same love as that with which Thou hast loved me.

And the command which we have from Him is that he who loves God must love his brother man also.

If any one says that he loves God, while he hates his brother man, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother man whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.

Any one who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and any one who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;

And live and act lovingly, as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up to death on our behalf as an offering and sacrifice to God, yielding a fragrant odor.

Dear friends, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

For we never fail to remember your works of faith and labours of love and your persistent and unwavering hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father;

I pray that Christ may make His home in your hearts through your faith; so that having your roots deep and your foundations strong, in love, you may become mighty to grasp the idea,

This is my commandment to you, to love one another as I have loved you.

For so greatly did God love the world that He gave His only Son, that every one who trusts in Him may not perish but may have the Life of Ages.

must keep yourselves safe in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ which will result in the Life of the Ages.

Our love will be manifested in all its perfection by our having complete confidence on the day of the Judgement; because just what He is, we also are in the world.

But we shall lovingly hold to the truth, and shall in all respects grow up into union with Him who is our Head, even Christ.

but if any one loves God, that man is known by God.

To all God's loved ones who are in Rome, called to be saints. May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

A new commandment I give you, to love one another; that as I have loved you, you also may love one another.

And if I distribute all my possessions to the poor, and give up my body to be burned, but am destitute of Love, it profits me nothing.

Love for God means obedience to His commands; and His commands are not irksome.

You however, brethren, were called to freedom. Only do not turn your freedom into an excuse for giving way to your lower natures; but become bondservants to one another in a spirit of love.

If I possess the gift of prophecy and am versed in all mysteries and all knowledge, and have such absolute faith that I can remove mountains, but am destitute of Love, I am nothing.

as it is grasped by all God's people, of the breadth and length, the height and depth--

Let all that you do be done from motives of love.

Let brotherly love always continue.