64 Bible Verses about Love, Nature Of

Beloved, let us love one another; because love is of God, and every one that loves has been begotten of God, and knows God. He that loves not never knew God; because God is love.

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

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

And we have known and believed the love which God hath in us. God is love, and he that abides in love abides in God, and God abideth in him.

In this we have known the love, that He laid down His soul in our behalf; and we ought to lay down our souls in behalf of the brethren.

Herein 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 one than this, that one lay down his soul for his friends.

and walk in love, as Christ also loved you, and delivered Himself up for you, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of sweet smell.

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

and hope makes not ashamed; because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the holy Spirit, Who was given to us.

And I beseech 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;

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

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that every one who believes on Him should not perish, but have eternal life;

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

If ye keep My commandments, ye shall abide in My love, even as I have kept My Father's commandments, and abide in His love.

nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, will 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 communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.

but God, being rich in mercy, on account of His great love wherewith He loved us,

for whom the Lord loveth, He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He acknowledgeth."

Behold what manner of love the Father hath given to us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world knows us not, because it knew Him not.

And he, answering, 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 who has My commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loves Me; and he that loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him, and will manifest Myself to him."

So, when they breakfasted, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?" He says to Him, "Yea, Lord, Thou knowest that I fondly love Thee." He saith to him, "Feed My lambs."

And we know that all things are working 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 hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

Happy is a man who endures temptation; because, when he becomes approved, he will receive the crown of life, which He promised to those who love Him.

Whom, not having seen, ye love; on Whom, though now not seeing Him, yet believing, ye exult with joy unspeakable and full of glory;

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

By this shall all know that ye are My disciples, if ye have love one to another."

Owe no one anything, but to love one another; for he that loves another has fulfilled the law.

My love be with you all in Christ Jesus.

I am not speaking by way of command; but as proving, through the diligence of others, the sincerity of your love.

For ye were called to freedom, brethren; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love serve one another;

with all humility and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing with one another in love;

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

that their hearts may he comforted, they being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of the understanding, unto the full knowledge of the mystery of God, even Christ,

suffering evil as wages of unrighteousness; accounting revelry in the daytime a pleasure; spots and blemishes; reveling in their deceivings, while feasting with you;

"Woe to you Pharisees! because ye love the first seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the marketplaces!

And this is the judgment, that the Light hath come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light; for their works were evil.

for they loved the glory of men, rather than the glory of God.

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

leaving the right way, they were led astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,

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

Love suffers long, is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not herself, is not puffed up, behaves not unseemly, seeks not her own, is not provoked, takes no account of evil, rejoices not at unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;read more.
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails; but whether there be prophecies, they will be done away; whether there be tongues, they will cease; whether there be knowledge, it will be done away.

Let love be without hypocrisy; abhorring that which is evil; cleaving to that which is good;

But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and of faith unfeigned;

Having purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned brotherly love, love one another from the heart earnestly;

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

But whosoever possesses the goods of the world, and beholds his brother having need, and shuts up his compassion from him, how does the love of God abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue, but in deed and in truth.

"If ye love Me, ye will keep My commandments;

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

For, if because of your food your brother is aggrieved, you are no longer walking in accordance with love. Destroy not with your food him for whom Christ died.

I have been crucified with Christ; and no longer am I living, but Christ is living in me; and, in so far as I am now living in flesh, I live in the faith of the Son of God, Who loved me, and gave Himself for me.

In this was manifested the love of God in us, that God hath sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we may live through Him.

In 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; and His commandments are not burdensome;

But now abides faith, hope, love; these three; and the greatest of these is love.

And He 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. A second like it is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Jesus answered, "The first is, 'Hear, O Israel; the Lord is our God, the Lord is One; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your mind and with all your strength.' A second is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these."

For this, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not kill," "You shall not steal," "You shall not covet;" and, if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this word, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." Love works no ill to one's neighbor: therefore, love is a fulfillment of the law.

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

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that ye, having been rooted and grounded in love, may be strong to apprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth, and length, and height, and depth, and to know the knowledge-surpassing love of Christ, that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God.

and over all these put on love, which is the uniting-bond of perfectness.

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

He that loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no occasion of stumbling in him.