63 Bible Verses about Love, Nature Of

Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God; and every one that loves us a child of God. He who does not love, does not know God; for God is love.

Meanwhile, may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all men, even as I do toward you.

For God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but a spirit of power and of love and of self-control.

And we do know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he who is abiding in love is abiding in God, and God is abiding in him.

By this we learn to know love, because he laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

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

"Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

and to lead lives of love, just as Christ also loved you and gave himself up for you, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for you, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for "an odor of sweetness."

But the harvest-fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity, gentleness, and self-control;

Brothers, I beseech you, by Jesus Christ our Lord, and by the love which the Spirit gives, to help me in my struggle by your prayers to God on my behalf,

and it is he who has told me of your love for me in the spirit.

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

"that you have not the love of God in yourselves.

"If you obey my commands you will abide in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and abide in his love.

Nor height, nor depth, Nor any other created thing, Shall be able to separate us from 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 fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

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

For it is those whom he loves that he disciplines, And he scourges every son whom he acknowledges.

Behold what manner of love the Father has given us in allowing us to be called "Children of God!" And that is what we are. For this reason the world does not recognize us, because it did not know him.

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

"It is he who has my commands and obeys them that loves me; and he who loves me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will manifest myself to him."

When they were through breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these others do?" "Yes, Lord, you know that you are dear to me." he answered. Jesus said to him, "Feed my lambs."

Now we know that all things continually work together for good to those who love God, to those who have been the called according to his purpose.

as I call to mind your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father.

Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love him.

Him you love, though you have never seen him; in him you ever believe, though even now you see him not, and you are rejoicing with joy unspeakable and full of glory,

For love to God means obeying his commandments; and his commandments are not irksome.

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

Never owe any one anything save the debt of brotherly love; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the Law.

My love be with you all in Christ Jesus.

I do not say this by way of command, but by the zeal of others I am trying to prove the reality of your love.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom; only do not make your freedom an excuse for self-indulgence, but in love enslave yourselves to one another.

With all humility and gentleness and long-suffering forbear with one another in love;

And it is my prayer that your love may abound yet more and more in intelligence and insight

May their hearts be comforted! May they be knit together in love! May they gain in all its riches the full assurance of their understanding! May they come to a perfect knowledge of the secret truth of God, which is Christ himself.

suffering wrong as the wage of wrong which they have done. These are men who count it pleasure to carouse in open daylight; they are spots and blemishes reveling in their deceit, even while they are feasting with you.

"Woe unto you Pharisee! for you delight in the best seats in the synagogue, and in the salutation in the market-places.

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

For they loved the approval of men rather than the approval of God.

for Demas has deserted me for love of this present world, and is gone to Thessalonica; Crescens is gone to Galatia; Titus to Dalmatia.

They have forsaken the right way; they have lost their way, and followed the road of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrong-doing.

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love makes no parade, is not puffed up, is not rude, nor selfish, nor easily provoked. Love bears no malice, never rejoices over wrong-doing, but rejoices when the truth rejoices.read more.
It knows how to be silent, it is trustful, hopeful, patient, enduring. Love never fails; but though there are prophecies, they will fail; though there are tongues, they will cease; though there is knowledge, it will be superseded.

Let love be without insincerity. Abhor what is evil; wed yourselves to what is good.

Now the end of the exhortation is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and an undissembled faith.

Now that by obedience to the truth you have purified your lives for a brotherly love without hypocrisy, you must love one another from your hearts, fervently.

Fear does not exist in love; but love, when it is perfect, drives out fear. For fear has always torment, and he who has fear is not yet perfected in love.

But whoever has this world's goods, and beholds his brother in need, and shuts up his heart against him, how can the love of God continue to abide in him? My children, let us not love in word nor in talk, but in deed and in truth.

"If you love me, you will obey my commandments,

But God gives proof of his love to us by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

If your brother is continually pained because of your food, you are not conducting yourself any longer in love. Do not, by what you eat, persist in destroying a man for whom Christ died.

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

In this was the love of God clearly shown toward us, by his sending 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 love to God means obeying his commandments; and his commandments are not irksome.

Faith, Hope, Love endure??hese three; but the greatest of these is Love.

Jesus answered, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. "This is the great and first commandment. "The second, which is like it, is this, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

Jesus replied. "The first is. 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord; and thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength.'" "The second is this, "Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself. Other command greater than these there is none."

For the Law which says, Thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt do no murder, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness, thou shalt not covet, and whatever other commandment there be??s all summed up in this one saying, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Love never wrongs his neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilment of the Law.

because in Christ neither circumcision has any value, nor uncircumcision, but faith which works through love.

that Christ may make his home in your hearts through your faith; that you may be so deeply rooted and so firmly grounded in love, that you may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is "the breadth," "the length," "the depth," and "the height," and may know the love of Christ which transcends all knowing, so that you may be filled with all the "plenitude" of God.

Over them all bind on love, which is the girdle of completeness.

and to piety brotherly love, and to brotherly love, love itself.

But he who loves his brother is abiding in the light, and in it there is no cause of stumbling.