10 Bible Verses about Love For The Church

Married men, love your wives, as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself up to death for her;

Now that, through your obedience to the truth, you have purified your souls for cherishing sincere brotherly love, you must love another heartily and fervently.

If I then, your Master and Rabbi, have washed your feet, it is also your duty to wash one another's feet. For I have set you an example in order that you may do what I have done to you.

Among all those who had embraced the faith there was but one heart and soul, so that none of them claimed any of his possessions as his own, but everything they had was common property;

O Corinthians, our lips are unsealed to you: our heart is expanded.

Make room for us in your hearts. There is not one of you whom we have wronged, not one to whom we have done harm, not one over whom we have gained any selfish advantage. I do not say this to imply blame, for, as I have already said, you have such a place in our hearts that we would die with you or live with you.

For God is my witness how I yearn over all of you with tender Christian affection.

As for us, we know that we have already passed out of death into Life--because we love our brother men. He who is destitute of love continues dead.

Now I can find joy amid my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my own person whatever is lacking in Christ's afflictions on behalf of His Body, the Church.

But God gives proof of His love to us in Christ's dying for us while we were still sinners.