55 Bible Verses about Love For God

He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me;

Then will the king say to those on his right hand, Come, ye blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry, and ye gave me food; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in; naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came to me.read more.
Then will the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungry, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? and when saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? or when did we see thee sick, or in prison, and come to thee? And the king will answer and say to them, Truly do I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did it to one of the least of these my brethren, ye did it to me.

And many women were there, looking on from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, rendering services to him; among whom was Mary the Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee. And at evening there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who was himself also a disciple of Jesus.read more.
This man went to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given him. And Joseph took the body, and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock, and having rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, went away. And Mary the Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.

For whoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because ye belong to Christ, truly do I say to you, he will not lose his reward.

Jesus answered, 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."

And the scribe said to him, In truth, Teacher, thou hast well said, that He is one, and that there is no other but he; and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength, and to love ones neighbor as ones self, is more than all the whole burntofferings and the sacrifices.

Lord! now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word;

Wherefore, I say to thee, her many sins have been forgiven; for she loved much; but he to whom little is forgiven loveth little.

But woe to you Pharisees! for ye pay tithes of the mint, and the rue, and every herb; and pass by justice and the love of God. These ought ye to have done, and not to leave those undone.

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

Jesus said to them, If God were your father, ye would love me; for from God I proceeded forth and am come; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments;

He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me; and he that loveth me will be loved by my Father; and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

Jesus answered and said to him, If any one loveth me, he will keep my word; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our abode with him.

Ye heard me say to you, I am going away, and am coming again to you. If ye loved me, ye would have rejoiced that I go to the Father; for the Father is greater than I.

As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love.

for the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from God.

And I made known to them thy name, and will make it known; that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

He saith to him the third time, Simon, son of John, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said to him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith to him, Feed my sheep.

Then answered Paul, What mean ye that ye weep, and break my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

and hope will not disappoint us; because the love of God hath been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which hath been given to us.

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

but if any one love God, the same is known by Him.

If any one loveth not the Lord, let him be accursed! The Lord is at hand.

and are well pleased rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

For the love of Christ constraineth us, because we thus judged, that if one died for all, then all died; and he died for all, that they who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who died for their sakes, and rose again.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith working by love.

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

But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ; through whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.

that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith, ye having been rooted and grounded in love, that ye may be able to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height, and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fullness of God.

but cleaving to truth in love, may grow up in all things unto him who is the head, even Christ;

Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an incorruptible love.

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

but I am held in a strait by the two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; for it is far better;

But whatever things were gain to me, those for the sake of Christ I have counted but loss. Nay more, I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as refuse, that I may gain Christ,

who also brought to our knowledge your love in the Spirit.

And the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God, and to perseverance in the cause of Christ.

for God gave us not the spirit of cowardice, but of power, and of love, and of admonition.

Hold the pattern of sound words, which thou heardest from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus;

henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me at that day, and not to me only, but to all those who have loved his appearing.

hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints;

For God is not unjust so as to forget your work, and the love which ye showed toward his name, in that ye ministered and are still ministering to the saints.

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he is approved, he will receive the crown of life, which He promised to them that love him.

Hearken, my beloved brethren. Did not God choose the poor as to the world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to them that love him?

whom, having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory,

To you therefore who believe, is the honor; but to the disobedient, "the stone which the builders rejected, the same hath become the cornerstone,"

But whoever keepeth his word, truly in him is the love of God perfected. Hereby we know that we are in him.

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

But whoever hath this worlds goods, and seeth his brother having need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? My children, let us not love in word, nor in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

No one hath ever seen God. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

And we have known and believed the love that God hath in regard to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Herein hath love been perfected with us, that we have confidence in the day of judgment; because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casteth out fear; because fear hath torment; and he that feareth is not made perfect in love.read more.
We love, because he first loved us. If any one saith, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar; for he that loveth not his brother, whom he hath seen, how can he love God, whom he hath not seen? And this commandment we have from him, that he who loveth God love also his brother.

Whoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ hath been born of God; and every one that loveth him that begat, loveth also him that hath been begotten of 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; and his commandments are not burdensome,

And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, as ye have heard from the beginning, that ye should walk in it.

keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

But I have this against thee, that thou hast left thy first love.