36 Bible Verses about Loving One Another

This is my commandment to you, to love one another as I have loved you.

A new commandment I give you, to love one another; that as I have loved you, you also may love one another.

"Thus I command you to love one another.

Dear friends, let us love one another; for love has its origin in God, and every one who loves has become a child of God and is beginning to know God.

Dear friends, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

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.

Let brotherly love always continue.

As for brotherly love, be affectionate to one another; in matters of worldly honour, yield to one another.

with all lowliness of mind and unselfishness, and with patience, bearing with one another lovingly, and earnestly striving to maintain,

It is by this that every one will know that you are my disciples--if you love one another."

The love of which I am speaking consists in our living in obedience to God's commands. God's command is that you should live in obedience to what you all heard from the very beginning.

For this is the Message you have heard from the beginning--that we are to love one another.

Dear children, let us not love in words only nor with the lips, but in deed and in truth.

And the command which we have from Him is that he who loves God must love his brother man also.

and as for you, may the Lord teach you to love one another and all men, with a growing and a glowing love, resembling our love for you.

and submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Owe nothing to any one except mutual love; for he who loves his fellow man has satisfied the demands of Law.

But on the subject of love for the brotherhood it is unnecessary for me to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another;

And this is His command--that we are to believe in His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as He has commanded us to do.

He who is destitute of love has never had any knowledge of God; because God is love.

Above all continue to love one another fervently, for love throws a veil over a multitude of faults.

Greet one another with a kiss of love. Peace be with all of you who are in Christ.

And now, dear lady, I pray you--writing to you, as I do, not a new command, but the one which we have had from the very beginning--let us love one another.

We know what love is--through Christ's having laid down His life on our behalf; and in the same way we ought to lay down our lives for our brother men.

No one has ever yet seen God. If we love one another, God continues in union with us, and His love in all its perfection is in our hearts.

For the entire Law has been obeyed when you have kept the single precept, which says, "You are to love your fellow man equally with yourself."

On the contrary learn to be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ has also forgiven you.

If any one says that he loves God, while he hates his brother man, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother man whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.

In conclusion, all of you should be of one mind, quick to sympathize, kind to the brethren, tenderhearted, lowly-minded,

united by mutual love, with harmony of feeling giving your minds to one and the same object.

Finally, brethren, be joyful, secure perfection of character, take courage, be of one mind, live in peace. And then God who gives love and peace will be with you.

Habitually therefore give one another a friendly reception, just as Christ also has received you, and thus promote the glory of God.

Have full sympathy with one another. Do not give your mind to high things, but let humble ways content you. Do not be wise in your own conceits.

"The second is this: 'Thou shalt love thy fellow man as thou lovest thyself.' "Other Commandment greater than these there is none."

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.

We love because God first loved us.