56 Bible Verses about loving

Since you have purified your souls by obeying the truth, in sincere love for the brotherhood you must love one another heartily and fervently,

Dear children, let us stop loving with words or lips alone, but let us love with actions and in truth.

And over all these qualities put on love, which is the tie of perfection that binds us together.

Whoever does not love has never come to know God by experience, because God is love.

let everything be done in love.

This is the way God's love for us has been shown, namely, God has sent His only Son into the world that we through Him might have life.

Now if you practice loving only those who love you, what credit do you get for that? Why, even notorious sinners practice loving those who love them.

No one can show greater love than this, the giving of his life for his friends.

Spiritual blessing be with all who have an undying love for our Lord Jesus Christ.

This is my command to you, to keep on loving one another as I have loved you.

Above everything else keep your love for one another fervent, because love covers up a multitude of sins.

Stop loving the world, or the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, there is no love for the Father in his heart,

And so these three, faith, hope, and love endure, but the greatest of them is love.

Dearly beloved, let us practice loving one another, because love originates with God, and everyone who practices loving is a child of God and knows God by experience.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love what is its own. But it is because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, that the world hates you.

As the Scripture says, "Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated."

with perfect humility and gentleness, with patience, lovingly bearing with one another,

We love, because He loved us first.

Love is so patient and so kind; love never boils with jealousy; it never boasts, is never puffed with pride;

So we know by experience and trust the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever continues to love continues in union with God and God in union with him.

This is the way to distinguish God's children from the devil's children. No one who fails to do right is God's child, and no one who fails to love his brother.

In brotherly love be affectionate to one another, in personal honors put one another to the fore,

This is the command that we get from Him, that whoever loves God loves his brother too.

But I tell you, practice loving your enemies and praying for your persecutors,

"I know what you are doing, I know your love and faithfulness, your service and patient endurance, and I know that you are now working harder than you did at first.

and the spiritual blessing of our Lord in increasing floods has come upon me, accompanied by faith and love inspired by union with Christ Jesus.

"If you really love me, you will keep my commands.

If I should dole out everything I have for charity, and give my body up to torture in mere boasting pride, but have no love, I get from it no good at all.

If anyone says, "I love God," and yet habitually hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

There is no fear in love, and perfect love drives out fear, because fear pertains to punishment, and no one who is subject to fear has attained perfection in love.

If I should have the gift of prophecy, And know all secret truths, and knowledge in its every form, and have such perfect faith that I could move mountains, but have no love, I am nothing.

Now love means this, that we keep on living in accordance with His commands. The command is this, that we continue to live in love.

May the Lord make you increase and overflow in love for one another and for all men, as my love for you does,

But the aim of your instruction is to be love that flows out of a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith.