66 Bible Verses about Love, For One Another

For the whole law can be summed up in a single commandment, namely, "You must love your neighbor as yourself."

You must not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the children of your people, but you must love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.

The foreigner who resides with you must be to you like a native citizen among you; so you must love him as yourself, because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

So you must love the resident foreigner because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

The second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'

The second is: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."

My commandment is this -- to love one another just as I have loved you.

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

Now on the topic of brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

Brotherly love must continue.

But if you fulfill the royal law as expressed in this scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well.

You have purified your souls by obeying the truth in order to show sincere mutual love. So love one another earnestly from a pure heart.

Honor all people, love the family of believers, fear God, honor the king.

Now this is his commandment: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he gave us the commandment.

And the commandment we have from him is this: that the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian too.

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

Do we not all have one father? Did not one God create us? Why do we betray one another, in this way making light of the covenant of our ancestors?

So by your knowledge the weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed. If you sin against your brothers or sisters in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. For this reason, if food causes my brother or sister to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause one of them to sin.

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.

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

The one who loves his fellow Christian resides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.

We know that we have crossed over from death to life because we love our fellow Christians. The one who does not love remains in death.

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

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

Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.

The one who forgives an offense seeks love, but whoever repeats a matter separates close friends.

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

with such affection for you we were happy to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives, because you had become dear to us.

A friend loves at all times, and a relative is born to help in adversity.

Now I will most gladly spend and be spent for your lives! If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

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.

since it was because of the work of Christ that he almost died. He risked his life so that he could make up for your inability to serve me.

I have great joy in the Lord because now at last you have again expressed your concern for me. (Now I know you were concerned before but had no opportunity to do anything.)

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.

I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.'

When Job's three friends heard about all this calamity that had happened to him, each of them came from his own country -- Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They met together to come to show sympathy for him and to console him.

and though my physical condition put you to the test, you did not despise or reject me. Instead, you welcomed me as though I were an angel of God, as though I were Christ Jesus himself!

For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,

If a fellow Israelite from one of your villages in the land that the Lord your God is giving you should be poor, you must not harden your heart or be insensitive to his impoverished condition. Instead, you must be sure to open your hand to him and generously lend him whatever he needs.

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?

Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the saints greet you.

But Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, hugged his neck, and kissed him. Then they both wept.

Then he threw himself on the neck of his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck. He kissed all his brothers and wept over them. After this his brothers talked with him.

They all began to weep loudly, and hugged Paul and kissed him,

Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.

All the brothers and sisters send greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss.

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

When Abram heard that his nephew had been taken captive, he mobilized his 318 trained men who had been born in his household, and he pursued the invaders as far as Dan. Then, during the night, Abram divided his forces against them and defeated them. He chased them as far as Hobah, which is north of Damascus. He retrieved all the stolen property. He also brought back his nephew Lot and his possessions, as well as the women and the rest of the people.

So Moses returned to the Lord and said, "Alas, this people has committed a very serious sin, and they have made for themselves gods of gold. But now, if you will forgive their sin, but if not, wipe me out from your book that you have written."

Jonathan made a covenant with David, for he loved him as much as he did his own life.

A centurion there had a slave who was highly regarded, but who was sick and at the point of death. When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, asking him to come and heal his slave. When they came to Jesus, they urged him earnestly, "He is worthy to have you do this for him,read more.
because he loves our nation, and even built our synagogue." So Jesus went with them. When he was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to say to him, "Lord, do not trouble yourself, for I am not worthy to have you come under my roof.

But the expert, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?" Jesus replied, "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell into the hands of robbers, who stripped him, beat him up, and went off, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road, but when he saw the injured man he passed by on the other side.read more.
So too a Levite, when he came up to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan who was traveling came to where the injured man was, and when he saw him, he felt compassion for him. He went up to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him. The next day he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, 'Take care of him, and whatever else you spend, I will repay you when I come back this way.' Which of these three do you think became a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?" The expert in religious law said, "The one who showed mercy to him." So Jesus said to him, "Go and do the same."

The group of those who believed were of one heart and mind, and no one said that any of his possessions was his own, but everything was held in common.

At that hour of the night he took them and washed their wounds; then he and all his family were baptized right away.

especially saddened by what he had said, that they were not going to see him again. Then they accompanied him to the ship.

who risked their own necks for my life. Not only I, but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.

For out of great distress and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not to make you sad, but to let you know the love that I have especially for you.

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

For God is my witness that I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.

So then, my brothers and sisters, dear friends whom I long to see, my joy and crown, stand in the Lord in this way, my dear friends!

May the Lord grant mercy to the family of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my imprisonment. But when he arrived in Rome, he eagerly searched for me and found me.

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles so that we may be able to comfort those experiencing any trouble with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow toward us, so also our comfort through Christ overflows to you.read more.
But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort that you experience in your patient endurance of the same sufferings that we also suffer.

My children -- I am again undergoing birth pains until Christ is formed in you!

I thank my God every time I remember you.

although we could have imposed our weight as apostles of Christ; instead we became little children among you. Like a nursing mother caring for her own children, with such affection for you we were happy to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives, because you had become dear to us.

So in all our distress and affliction, we were reassured about you, brothers and sisters, through your faith. For now we are alive again, if you stand firm in the Lord. For how can we thank God enough for you, for all the joy we feel because of you before our God?read more.
We pray earnestly night and day to see you in person and make up what may be lacking in your faith.