36 Bible Verses about True Love

Fear is not in this love; but the perfect love casteth out fear: for fear hath anguish. He that is afraid is not made perfect in love.

Having purified your souls by obedience to the truth through the Spirit unto fraternal affection undissembled, love each other intensely out of a pure heart:

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Herein is love, not that we have loved God, but that he hath loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiatory sacrifice for our sins.

My dear children, let us not love in word and in tongue, but in deed and in truth;

By this was the love of God manifested to us, that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might have life by him.

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

Beloved, let us love one another; because love is from God, and every one who loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

He that loveth not, never knew God; for God is love.

By this we have known the love [of Christ], because for us he laid down his own life: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

Love is long-suffering, is kind; love envieth not; love is no vain boaster, is not inflated [with pride],

But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.

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

And we have known and believed the love which God hath towards us. God is love; and he that abideth in love, abideth in God, and God in him.

But above all things have fervent love towards each other: for love will conceal a multitude of faults.

We love him, because he first loved us.

Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity.

Love not the world, neither the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

For the end of the commandment is love out of a clean heart, and good conscience, and faith unfeigned:

So this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love also his brother.

grace, mercy, peace be with you from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

If any person say, I love God, yet hateth his brother, he is a liar; for he who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love the God whom he hath not seen?

For this is the love of God, that we should keep his commandments: and his commandments are not burdensome.

beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ.

Love never faileth: but if there be prophetic gifts, they shall be no more; if tongues, they shall cease; if science, it shall vanish away.

Yet have I a charge against thee, that thou art gone back from thy first love.

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries, and all manner of science; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

And if I deal out all my goods in alms, and deliver up my body that I should be burned, but have not love, I am nothing advantaged by it.

In brotherly affection be tenderly attached to each other; in honour preferring one another:

Love doeth no ill to a neighbour; the fulfilment therefore of the law is love.

who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.

Let love be undissembled. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, who is the head, even Christ:

A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

that their hearts may be comforted, firmly united together in love, and unto all riches of full assurance of understanding, in the knowledge of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;