36 Bible Verses about True Love

There is no fear in love. No! Love, when perfect, drives out fear, for fear implies punishment, and the man who feels fear has not attained to perfect love.

Now that, by your obedience to the Truth, you have purified your lives, so that there is growing up among you a genuine brotherly affection, love one another earnestly with all your hearts;

No one can give greater proof of love than by laying down his life for his friends.

His love is seen in this--not in our having loved God, but in his loving us and sending his Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

My children, do not let our love be mere words, or end in talk; let it be true and show itself in acts.

The love of God was revealed to us by his sending his only Son into the world, that we might find Life through him.

And this is love--to live in obedience to the Father's commands. This is the Command as you learned from the first, to live in a spirit of love.

Dear friends, let us love one another, because Love comes from God; and every one who loves has received the new Life from God and knows God.

He who does not love has not learned to know God; for God is Love.

We have learned to know what love is from this--that Christ laid down his life on our behalf. Therefore we also ought to lay down our lives on behalf of our Brothers.

Love is long-suffering, and kind; Love is never envious, never boastful, never conceited, never behaves unbecomingly;

Over all these virtues put on love; for that is the girdle which makes all complete.

And what I pray for is this--that your love may grow yet stronger and stronger, with increasing knowledge and all discernment,

And, moreover, we have learned to know, and have accepted as a fact, the love which God has for us. God is Love; and he who lives in love lives in God, and God in him.

Above all things, let your love for one another be earnest, for 'Love throws a veil over countless sins.'

We love, because God first loved us.

May God's blessing be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.

Do not love the world or what the world can offer. When any one loves the world, there is no love for the Father in him;

The object of all instruction is to call forth that love which comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith.

Indeed, we have this Command from God-- 'He who loves God must also love his Brother.'

Blessing, mercy, and peace will be ours--the gift of God, the Father, and of Jesus Christ, the Father's Son--in a life of truth and love.

If a man says 'I love God,' and yet hates his Brother, he is a liar; for the man who does not love his Brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

For to love God is to lay his commands to heart; and his commands are not burdensome,

Love bears with all things, every trustful, ever hopeful, ever patient.

May the Lord bring you to the love of God, and to the patience of the Christ.

Love never fails. But, whether it be the gift of preaching, it will be done with; whether it be the gift of 'tongues,' it will cease; whether it be knowledge, it, too, will be done with.

But this I have against you--You have abandoned your first love.

Even though I have the gift of preaching, and fathom all hidden truths and all the depths of knowledge; even though I have such faith as might move mountains, yet have not Love, I am nothing!

Even though I dole my substance to the poor, even though I sacrifice my body, that I may boast, yet have not Love, it avails me nothing!

In brotherly love, be affectionate to one another; in showing respect, set an example of deference to one another;

Love never wrongs a neighbor. Therefore Love fully satisfies the Law.

And who told us of the love with which the Spirit has inspired you.

Let your love be sincere. Hate the wrong; cling to the right.

But holding the truth in a spirit of love, we shall grow into complete union with him who is our Head--Christ himself.

I give you a new commandment--Love one another; love one another as I have loved you.

In the hope that they, being bound to one another by love, and keeping in view the full blessedness of a firm conviction, may be encouraged to strive for a perfect knowledge of God's hidden Truth,