64 Bible Verses about Love, Nature Of

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

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

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

So we know and believe the love God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

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

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

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

And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

Now I urge you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

and who also told us of your love in the Spirit.

For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

But I know you, that you do not have the love of God in you.

If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

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

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

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

For those whom the Lord loves he disciplines, and he scourges every son whom he receives."

See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God! And so we are! The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

And he answered, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind'; and 'your neighbor as yourself.'"

He who has my commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him."

When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I love you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs."

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who are called according to his purpose.

remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, for when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.

Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorious joy,

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.

I am not speaking this as a command, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it with the earnestness of others.

For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing tolerance for one another in love,

And this is my prayer, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment,

that their hearts may be encouraged as they are knit together in love, to have all the riches of assured understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, that is, Christ himself,

suffering wrong for their wrongdoing. They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, as they carouse with you.

Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces.

And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

for Demas, having loved this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

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.

Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous or boastful, it is not arrogant or rude, it does not seek its own, it is not provoked, it keeps no record of wrongs, it does not rejoice in evil, but rejoices with the truth.read more.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails; but where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

Let love be genuine. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.

But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.

Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth for a sincere love of the brethren, love one another earnestly from the heart.

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. And he who fears is not made perfect in love.

But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or tongue but in deed and in truth.

"If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

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

If your brother is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. Do not by your eating destroy the one for whom Christ died.

I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.

So now faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Jesus said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the great and first commandment. And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'

Jesus answered, "The first is: 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord. And you shall love 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: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."

The commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not covet," and any other commandment there may be, are summed up in this sentence, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is of any avail, but faith working through love.

so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have power to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.

and to godliness, brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness, love.

He who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.