76 Bible Verses about Love, Nature Of

My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God. He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love.

And the Lord give you increase of love in fullest measure to one another and to all men, even as our love to you;

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

And we have seen and had faith in the love which God has for us. God is love, and everyone who has love is in God, and God is in him.

In this we see what love is, because he gave his life for us; and it is right for us to give our lives for the brothers.

And this is love, not that we had love for God, but that he had love for us, and sent his Son to be an offering for our sins.

Greater love has no man than this, that a man gives up his life for his friends.

And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,

And hope does not put to shame; because our hearts are full of the love of God through the Holy Spirit which is given to us.

Now I make request to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that you will be working together with me in your prayers to God for me;

And who, himself, made clear to us your love in the Spirit.

From far away he saw the Lord: my love for you is an eternal love: so with mercy I have made you come with me.

In your mercy you went before the people whom you have made yours; guiding them in your strength to your holy place.

And the Lord went past before his eyes, saying, The Lord, the Lord, a God full of pity and grace, slow to wrath and great in mercy and faith;

O Lord God, let him whom you have taken for yourself never be given up by you: keep in mind your mercies to David your servant.

Come back, O Lord, make my soul free; O give me salvation because of your mercy.

The sinner will be full of trouble; but mercy will be round the man who has faith in the Lord.

Have pity on me, O God, in your mercy; out of a full heart, take away my sin.

Let the wise give thought to these things, and see the mercies of the Lord.

For the mountains may be taken away, and the hills be moved out of their places, but my love will not be taken from you, or my agreement of peace broken, says the Lord, who has had mercy on you.

I will give news of the mercies of the Lord, and his great acts, even all the things the Lord has done for us, in his great grace to the house of Israel; even all he has done for us in his unnumbered mercies.

It is through the Lord's love that we have not come to destruction, because his mercies have no limit.

And I will take you as my bride for ever; truly, I will take you as my bride in righteousness and in right judging, in love and in mercies.

For God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life.

But I have knowledge of you that you have no love for God in your hearts.

If you keep my laws, you will be ever in my love, even as I have kept my Father's laws, and am ever in his love.

Or things on high, or things under the earth, or anything which is made, will be able to come between us and the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the harmony of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.

But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us,

For the Lord sends punishment on his loved ones; everyone whom he takes as his son has experience of his rod.

See what great love the Father has given us in naming us the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not see who we are, because it did not see who he was.

And he, answering, said, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and for your neighbour as for yourself.

He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.

Then when they had taken food, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, is your love for me greater than the love of these others? He said to him, Yes, Lord; you are certain of my love for you. He said to him, Then give my lambs food.

And we are conscious that all things are working together for good to those who have love for God, and have been marked out by his purpose.

Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

There is a blessing on the man who undergoes testing; because, if he has God's approval, he will be given the crown of life, which the Lord has said he will give to those who have love for him.

To whom your love is given, though you have not seen him; and the faith which you have in him, though you do not see him now, gives you joy greater than words and full of glory:

For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.

By this it will be clear to all men that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.

Be in debt for nothing, but to have love for one another: for he who has love for his neighbour has kept all the law.

My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. So be it.

I am not giving you an order, but using the ready mind of others as a test of the quality of your love.

Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another.

With all gentle and quiet behaviour, taking whatever comes, putting up with one another in love;

And my prayer is that you may be increased more and more in knowledge and experience;

So that their hearts may be comforted, and that being joined together in love, they may come to the full wealth of the certain knowledge of the secret of God, even Christ,

For the evil which overtakes them is the reward of their evil-doing: such men take their pleasure in the delights of the flesh even in the daytime; they are like the marks of a disease, like poisoned wounds among you, feasting together with you in joy;

A curse is on you, Pharisees! for your desires are for the most important seats in the Synagogues and for words of respect said to you in the market-place.

And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil.

For the praise of men was dearer to them than the approval of God.

For Demas has gone away from me, for love of this present life, and has gone to Thessalonica: Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

Turning out of the true way, they have gone wandering in error, after the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who was pleased to take payment for wrongdoing;

Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride; Love's ways are ever fair, it takes no thought for itself; it is not quickly made angry, it takes no account of evil; It takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, but has joy in what is true;read more.
Love has the power of undergoing all things, having faith in all things, hoping all things. Though the prophet's word may come to an end, tongues come to nothing, and knowledge have no more value, love has no end.

Let love be without deceit. Be haters of what is evil; keep your minds fixed on what is good.

But the effect of the order is love coming from a clean heart, and a knowledge of what is right, and true faith:

And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:

There is no fear in love: true love has no room for fear, because where fear is, there is pain; and he who is not free from fear is not complete in love.

But if a man has this world's goods, and sees that his brother is in need, and keeps his heart shut against his brother, how is it possible for the love of God to be in him? My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith.

If you have love for me, you will keep my laws.

But God has made clear his love to us, in that, when we were still sinners, Christ gave his life for us.

And if because of food your brother is troubled, then you are no longer going on in the way of love. Do not let your food be destruction to him for whom Christ went into death.

I have been put to death on the cross with Christ; still I am living; no longer I, but Christ is living in me; and that life which I now am living in the flesh I am living by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who in love for me, gave himself up for me.

And the love of God was made clear to us when he sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him.

In this way, we are certain that we have love for the children of God, when we have love for God and keep his laws. For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.

But now we still have faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

And he said to him, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest rule. And a second like it is this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

Jesus said in answer, The first is, Give ear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord; And you are to have love for the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. The second is this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself. There is no other law greater than these.

And this, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not put to death, Do not take what is another's, Do not have desire for what is another's, and if there is any other order, it is covered by this word, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself. Love does no wrong to his neighbour, so love makes the law complete.

Because in Christ Jesus, having circumcision or not having circumcision are equally of no profit; but only faith working through love.

So that Christ may have his place in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and based in love, May have strength to see with all the saints how wide and long and high and deep it is, And to have knowledge of the love of Christ which is outside all knowledge, so that you may be made complete as God himself is complete.

And more than all, have love; the only way in which you may be completely joined together.

And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself.

He who has love for his brother is in the light, and there is no cause of error in him.