36 Bible Verses about True Love

Love has no dread in it; no, love in its fulness drives all dread away, for dread has to do with punishment ??anyone who has dread, has not reached the fulness of love.

Now that your obedience to the Truth has purified your souls for a brotherly love that is sincere, love one another heartily and steadily.

To lay life down for his friends, man has no greater love than that.

Love lies in this, not in our love for him but in his love for us ??in the sending of his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

My dear children, let us put our love not into words or into talk but into deeds, and make it real.

This is how the love of God has appeared for us, by God sending his only Son into the world, so that by him we might live.

To live by his commands, that is what love means: and the command is, live in love as you have learned to do from the very beginning.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love belongs to God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God;

he who does not love, does not know God, for God is love.

We know what love is by this, that He laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for the brotherhood.

Love is very patient, very kind. Love knows no jealousy; love makes no parade, gives itself no airs,

And above all you must be loving, for love is the link of the perfect life.

And it is my prayer that your love may be more and more rich in knowledge and all manner of insight, enabling you to have a sense of what is vital,

well, we do know, we have believed, the love God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

Above all, be keen to love one another, for love hides a host of sins.

We love, because He loved us first.

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

Love not the world, nor yet what is in the world; if anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.

Whereas the aim of the Christian discipline is the love that springs from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from a sincere faith.

And we get this command from him, that he who loves God is to love his brother as well.

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

If anyone declares, 'I love God,' and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who will not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot possibly love the God whom he has never seen.

(for love to God means keeping his commands). And his commands are not irksome,

always slow to expose, always eager to believe the best, always hopeful, always patient.

May the Lord direct your hearts towards God's love and towards Christ's patience!

Love never disappears. As for prophesying, it will be superseded; as for 'tongues,' they will cease; as for knowledge, it will be superseded.

But I have this against you: you have given up loving one another as you did at first.

I may prophesy, fathom all mysteries and secret lore, I may have such absolute faith that I can move hills from their place, but if I have no love, I count for nothing;

I may distribute all I possess in charity, I may give up my body to be burnt, but if I have no love, I make nothing of it.

Put affection into your love for the brotherhood; be forward to honour one another;

Love never wrongs a neighbour; that is why love is the fulfilment of the law.

and it is he who has informed us of your love in the Spirit.

Let your love be a real thing, with a loathing for evil and a bent for what is good.

we are to hold by the truth, and by our love to grow up wholly into Him. For He, Christ, is the head, and under him,

I give you a new command, to love one another ??as I have loved you, you are to love one another.

May their hearts be encouraged! May they learn the meaning of love! May they have all the wealth of conviction that comes from insight! May they learn to know that open secret of God, the Father of Christ,