36 Bible Verses about True Love

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.

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

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

In this way is seen the true love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

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

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

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

We know what love is from the fact that He laid down His life for us; and so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

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

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

And it is my prayer that your love may overflow still more and more, directed by fuller knowledge and keener insight,

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.

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

We love, because He loved us first.

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

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,

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

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

spiritual blessing, mercy, and peace will be with us from God the Father and Jesus Christ, the Father's Son, in truth and love.

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.

For love to God means this, to practice obedience to His commands, and His commands are not burdensome,

It bears up under anything; it exercises faith in everything; it keeps up hope in everything; it gives us power to endure in anything.

May the Lord guide you into a realization of God's love for you and into a patient endurance like Christ's.

Love never fails; if there are prophecies, they will be set aside; if now exist ecstatic speakings, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will soon be set aside;

But I hold it against you that you do not love me as you did at first.

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.

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.

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

Love never does a wrong to one's neighbor; so love is the perfect satisfaction of the law.

he is the very one who told me of the love awakened in you by the Spirit.

Your love must be true. You must always turn in horror from what is wrong, but keep on holding to what is right.

But, on the other hand, we shall go on holding to the truth and in love growing up into perfect union with Him, that is, Christ Himself who is the Head.

I give you a new command, to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you too must love one another.

that their hearts may be encouraged, by having been knit together in love and by having atoned to the full assurance of understanding, so that they may finally reach the fullest knowledge of the open secret, Christ Himself,