10 Bible Verses about Love For The Church

Husbands, love your wives with divine love, as Christ also loved the church with divine love, and gave himself for her;

Having purified your souls through obedience of the truth unto unhypocritical, brotherly love, fervently from the heart love one another with divine love:

If then I, your Lord and Master, washed your feet, you ought also to wash the feet of one another. For I have given unto you an example, that you may also do as I have done to you.

And of the multitude who believed there was one heart and soul, and no one was saying that any of those things which belonged to him were his own, but all things were common to them.

Our mouth is open unto you, O Corinthians, our heart is enlarged.

Receive us: we have injured no one, we have corrupted no one, we have defrauded no one. I do not speak for castigation: for I have said before, that you are in our hearts to die with you and to live with you.

For God is my witness, how I long after you in the affections of Jesus Christ.

We know that we have passed out of the death into the life, because we love the brethren with divine love; the one loving not with divine love, abides in the death.

Now I rejoice in sufferings in your behalf, and am filling up the residue of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh in behalf of his body, which is the church;

And God commends his love to us, because, we being yet sinners, Christ died for us.