64 Bible Verses about Love, Nature Of

Dearly beloved, let us practice loving one another, because love originates with God, and everyone who practices loving is a child of God and knows God by experience. Whoever does not love has never come to know God by experience, because God is love.

May the Lord make you increase and overflow in love for one another and for all men, as my love for you does,

For the Spirit that God has given us does not impart timidity but power and love and self-control.

So we know by experience and trust the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever continues to love continues in union with God and God in union with him.

We know what love is from the fact that He laid down His life for us; and so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

In this way is seen the true love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

No one can show greater love than this, the giving of his life for his friends.

and practice living in love, just as Christ loved you too and gave Himself for you as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

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

and hope never disappoints us; for through the Holy Spirit that has been given us, God's love has flooded our hearts.

Now I beg you, brothers, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love that the Spirit inspires, to wrestle with me in prayers to God on my behalf,

he is the very one who told me of the love awakened in you by the Spirit.

"For God loved the world so much that He gave His Only Son, so that anyone who trusts in Him may never perish but have eternal life.

but I am sure that you do not have the love of God in your hearts.

If you continue to keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain in His love.

nor evil forces above or beneath, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God as shown in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The spiritual blessing of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the common sharing of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

But God, who is so rich in mercy on account of the great love He has for us,

For He disciplines everyone He loves, and chastises every son whom He heartily receives."

See what wonderful love the Father has bestowed on us in letting us be called God's children, and that is what we are! This is why the world does not know what we are, because it has never come to know Him.

Then he answered, "You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, your whole strength, and your whole mind, and your neighbor as you do yourself."

Whoever continues to hold and keep my commands is the one who really loves me, and whoever really loves me will be loved by my Father; yes, I will love him myself and will make myself real to him."

After they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, are you more devoted to me than you are to these things?" Peter answered Him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I tenderly love you." Jesus said to him, "Then feed my lambs."

Yes, we know that all things go on working together for the good of those who keep on loving God, who are called in accordance with God's purpose.

for we can never for a moment before our God forget your energizing faith, your toiling love, and your enduring hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Blessed is the person who endures trial, for when he stands the test, he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love Him.

You must continue to love Him, although you have never seen Him, but because you do believe in Him, although you do not now see Him, you must continue to rejoice with an unutterable and triumphant joy,

For love to God means this, to practice obedience to His commands, and His commands are not burdensome,

By this everybody will know that you are my disciples, if you keep on showing love for one another."

Stop owing anybody anything, except the obligation to love one another, for whoever practices loving others has perfectly satisfied the law.

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

I am not saying this in the spirit of a command, but I am simply trying to test the genuineness of your love by the enthusiasm of others.

For you, brothers, were called to freedom; only you must not let your freedom be an excuse for the gratification of your lower nature, but in love be slaves to one another.

with perfect humility and gentleness, with patience, lovingly bearing with one another,

And it is my prayer that your love may overflow still more and more, directed by fuller knowledge and keener insight,

that their hearts may be encouraged, by having been knit together in love and by having atoned to the full assurance of understanding, so that they may finally reach the fullest knowledge of the open secret, Christ Himself,

They think their daily luxurious living real pleasure; they are spots and blots, deceitfully living in luxurious pleasure while they continue their religious feasting with you.

A curse on you Pharisees, because you like to have the front seats in synagogues, and to be greeted with honor in public places!

And the ground for the sentence is this, that the light has come into the world, and yet, because their actions were evil, men have loved darkness more than the light.

for they loved the praise of men instead of the praise of God.

for Demas has forsaken me because he loved the present world, and has gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia;

They have left the straight road and gone astray. They have followed the road that Balaam, the son of Beor, trod, who fell in love with the profits of wrongdoing

Stop loving the world, or the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, there is no love for the Father in his heart,

Love is so patient and so kind; love never boils with jealousy; it never boasts, is never puffed with pride; It does not act with rudeness, or insist upon its rights; it never gets provoked, it never harbors evil thoughts; Is never glad when wrong is done, but always glad when truth prevails;read more.
It bears up under anything; it exercises faith in everything; it keeps up hope in everything; it gives us power to endure in anything. Love never fails; if there are prophecies, they will be set aside; if now exist ecstatic speakings, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will soon be set aside;

Your love must be true. You must always turn in horror from what is wrong, but keep on holding to what is right.

But the aim of your instruction is to be love that flows out of a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith.

Since you have purified your souls by obeying the truth, in sincere love for the brotherhood you must love one another heartily and fervently,

There is no fear in love, and perfect love drives out fear, because fear pertains to punishment, and no one who is subject to fear has attained perfection in love.

But if anyone has the world's means of supporting life and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how can love to God remain in him? Dear children, let us stop loving with words or lips alone, but let us love with actions and in truth.

"If you really love me, you will keep my commands.

But God proves His love for us by the fact that Christ died for us while we were still sinners.

For if your brother is hurt because of the food you eat, you are not living by the standard of love. Stop ruining, by what you eat, the man for whom Christ died.

I have been crucified with Christ, and I myself no longer live, but Christ is living in me; the life I now live as a mortal man I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.

This is the way God's love for us has been shown, namely, God has sent His only Son into the world that we through Him might have life.

This is how we can be sure that we love the children of God, by continuing to love God and to obey His commands. For love to God means this, to practice obedience to His commands, and His commands are not burdensome,

And so these three, faith, hope, and love endure, but the greatest of them is love.

And He answered him, "'You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, and your whole mind.' This is the greatest command, and is first in importance. The second is like it: 'You must love your neighbor as you do yourself.'

Jesus answered, "The first one is, 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord, and you must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, your whole mind, and your whole strength.' And this is the second, 'You must love your neighbor as you do yourself.' No other command is greater than these."

For the commandments, "You must not commit adultery; you must not murder; you must not steal; you must not have an evil desire," and any other commandment if there is any, are summed up in this command, "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself." Love never does a wrong to one's neighbor; so love is the perfect satisfaction of the law.

For in union with Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor lack of it counts for anything; but only faith that is spurred on to action by love.

and that Christ in His love, through your faith, may make His permanent home in your hearts. You must be deeply rooted, your foundations must be strong, so that you with all God's people may be strong enough to grasp the idea of the breadth and length, the height and depth, yes, to come at last to know the love of Christ, although it far surpasses human understanding, so that you may be filled with the perfect fullness of God.

And over all these qualities put on love, which is the tie of perfection that binds us together.

piety with brotherly affection, brotherly affection with universal love.

Whoever continues to love his brother is always in the light, and he is no hindrance to others.