64 Bible Verses about Love, Nature Of

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and every one that loves has been born of God and knows God. He that loves not has not known God; for God is love.

and the Lord cause you to be full and abound with love one to another and to all men, as we also to you,

For God gave us not a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

And we have known and believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he that continues in love continues in God and God in him.

By this we have known 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 loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.

No man has greater love than this, that one should give his life for his friends.

and walk in love, as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, an offering and sacrifice to God of good odor.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

and the hope makes not ashamed, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit given us.

But I exhort you by the Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in prayers to God for me,

and who made known to us your love in the Spirit.

For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that every one believing in him may not perish but have eternal life.

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

If you keep my commandments you shall continue in my love, as I have kept my Father's commandments and continue in his love.

nor height, nor depth, nor any other creation, shall be able to separate us from the love of God 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, on account of his great love with which he loved us,??5 even when we were dead in sins he made us alive with Christ,??y grace are you saved,

for the Lord corrects those whom he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.

See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God. The world therefore knows us not, because it knew him not.

And he answered and said, 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 that has my commandments and keeps them, he it is that loves me; and he that loves me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.

When therefore they had breakfasted, 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 am a friend to you. He said to him, Feed my lambs.

And we know that all things work together for good to 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 the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God even our Father,

Blessed is the man who endures trial, for when proved he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

whom not having seen you love, in whom believing though now you see him not you rejoice with joy unspeakable and glorious,

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

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

Owe no man any thing, except to love one another; for he that loves another has fully performed the law.

My love be with you all in Christ Jesus.

I do not speak by command, but on account of the diligence of others, and to prove the genuineness of your love;

For you are called to liberty, brothers, only make not your liberty an occasion for the flesh, but by love serve one another.

with all humility and meekness, with long suffering, forbearing one another in love,

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all understanding,

that your hearts may be comforted, being united in love and [raised] to all the riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God,

receiving the wages of wickedness, accounting luxury in the day-time a pleasure, spots and blemishes, revelling in their deceptions while feasting with you,

Woe to you, Pharisees! for you love the first seat in the synagogues, and salutations in the markets.

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

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

for Demas forsook me having loved the present life and went to Thessalonica, Cresces to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia;

having left the right way they have gone astray, following in the way of Balaam the son of Beor who loved the wages of wickedness,

Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him;

Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love is not boastful, is not puffed up, does not behave unbecomingly, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, devises not evil, rejoices not in wickedness, but rejoices in the truth;read more.
bears all things, believes all things, hopes for all things, and endures all things. Love never fails; but if there are prophecies, they shall pass away; if tongues, they shall cease; if knowledge, it shall pass away.

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

But the end of the commandment is love from a pure heart and good conscience and faith unfeigned,

Having purified your souls by obeying the truth to unfeigned brotherly love, love one another fervently, from the heart,

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has pain; and he that is afraid is not made perfect in love.

And whoever has the goods of the world and sees his brother have need, and withholds his compassions from him, how continues the love of God in him? My little children, let us not love in word nor tongue, but in work and truth.

If you love me, keep my commandments;

but God commends his love to us, that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us;

For if your brother is grieved by your food, you no longer walk in love. Destroy not with your food him for whom Christ died.

I am crucified with Christ; and I no longer live myself, but Christ lives in me; and the present life which I live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

The love of God was manifested to us in this; that God has sent his only Son into the world that we may live through him.

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

And now remain faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

And he said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and all your soul, and 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, First is, Hear 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 strength. Second is this, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these.

For this, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not desire inordinately, and if there is any other commandment, it is summarily comprehended in this word; You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Love does no evil to a neighbor; love therefore is the sum of the law.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails any thing nor uncircumcision, but faith which works by love.

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through the faith, you being founded and established in love, that you may be able to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length, and depth and height, and to know the love of Christ which exceeds knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

and in addition to all these [put on] love, which is the bond of perfection.

and to piety brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.

He that loves his brother continues in the light, and there is no offense in him;