76 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 the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

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

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

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

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

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

And walk in love, even as Christ also loved us, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

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

and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

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

who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.

The LORD appeared of old to me, saying, 'Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you.

"You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.

The LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,

"LORD God, do not turn away the face of your anointed. Remember your loving kindnesses to David your servant."

Return, LORD. Deliver my soul, and save me for your loving kindness' sake.

Many sorrows come to the wicked, but loving kindness shall surround him who trusts in the LORD.

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of the LORD.

For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed," says the LORD who has mercy on you.

I will make mention of the loving kindnesses of the LORD and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD has bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

The LORD's faithful love does not cease; his compassion does not fail.

I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.

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

But I know you, that you do not have God's love in yourselves.

If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and remain in his love.

nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, 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, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.

But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

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

Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world does not know us, because it did not know him.

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

The one who has my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me. And the one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him."

So when they had eaten their 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 have affection for you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs."

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which he promised to those who love him.

whom not having seen you love; in whom, though now you do not see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy inexpressible and full of glory?

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

By this everyone 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 to all of you in Christ Jesus.

I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only do not use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;

that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ,

suffering the penalty as the wages of evil; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;

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

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

for they loved men's praise more than God's praise.

for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;

Do not love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love is not in him.

Love is patient and is kind; love does not envy. Love does not brag, is not proud, does not behave itself inappropriately, does not seek its own way, is not irritable, does not keep a record of wrongs; does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;read more.
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and unfeigned faith;

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from a pure heart fervently:

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him? Little children, let us not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Do not destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

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

By this God's love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

But now faith, hope, and love remain?these three. The greatest of these is love.

He said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the great and first commandment. A second likewise is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'

Jesus answered, "The first is, 'Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one: 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."

For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not covet," and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." Love does not harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

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

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.

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