36 Bible Verses about True Love

Love has in it no element of fear; but perfect love drives away fear, because fear involves pain, and if a man gives way to fear, there is something imperfect in his love.

Now that, through your obedience to the truth, you have purified your souls for cherishing sincere brotherly love, you must love another heartily and fervently.

No one has greater love than this--a man laying down his life for his friends.

This is love indeed--we did not love God, but He loved us and sent His Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Dear children, let us not love in words only nor with the lips, but in deed and in truth.

God's love for us has been manifested in that He has sent His only Son into the world so that we may have Life through Him.

The love of which I am speaking consists in our living in obedience to God's commands. God's command is that you should live in obedience to what you all heard from the very beginning.

Dear friends, let us love one another; for love has its origin in God, and every one who loves has become a child of God and is beginning to know God.

He who is destitute of love has never had any knowledge of God; because God is love.

We know what love is--through Christ's having laid down His life on our behalf; and in the same way we ought to lay down our lives for our brother men.

Love is patient and kind. Love knows neither envy nor jealousy. Love is not forward and self-assertive, nor boastful and conceited.

And over all these put on love, which is the perfect bond of union;

And it is my prayer that your love may be more and more accompanied by clear knowledge and keen perception, for testing things that differ,

And, as for us, we know the love which God has for us, and we confide in it. God is love, and he who continues to love continues in union with God, and God continues in union with him.

Above all continue to love one another fervently, for love throws a veil over a multitude of faults.

We love because God first loved us.

May grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with perfect sincerity.

Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If any one loves the world, there is no love in his heart for the Father.

But the end sought to be secured by exhortation is the love which springs from a pure heart, a clear conscience and a sincere faith.

And the command which we have from Him is that he who loves God must love his brother man also.

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

If any one says that he loves God, while he hates his brother man, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother man whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.

Love for God means obedience to His commands; and His commands are not irksome.

She knows how to be silent. She is full of trust, full of hope, full of patient endurance.

And may the Lord guide your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ.

Love never fails. But if there are prophecies, they will be done away with; if there are languages, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be brought to an end.

Yet I have this against you--that you no longer love Me as you did at first.

If I possess the gift of prophecy and am versed in all mysteries and all knowledge, and have such absolute faith that I can remove mountains, but am destitute of Love, I am nothing.

And if I distribute all my possessions to the poor, and give up my body to be burned, but am destitute of Love, it profits me nothing.

As for brotherly love, be affectionate to one another; in matters of worldly honour, yield to one another.

Love avoids doing any wrong to one's fellow man, and is therefore complete obedience to Law.

and moreover he has informed us of your love, which is inspired by the Spirit.

Let your love be perfectly sincere. Regard with horror what is evil; cling to what is right.

But we shall lovingly hold to the truth, and shall in all respects grow up into union with Him who is our Head, even Christ.

A new commandment I give you, to love one another; that as I have loved you, you also may love one another.

in order that their hearts may be cheered, they themselves being welded together in love and enjoying all the advantages of a reasonable certainty, till at last they attain the full knowledge of God's truth, which is Christ Himself.