39 Bible Verses about True Love

fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love;

Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins.

My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

In this was manifested the love of God in us, because His Son -- the only begotten -- hath God sent to the world, that we may live through him;

and this is the love, that we may walk according to His commands; this is the command, even as ye did hear from the beginning, that in it ye may walk,

Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;

he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

and above all these things, have love, which is a bond of the perfection,

and this I pray, that your love yet more and more may abound in full knowledge, and all judgment,

To my joyous one in chariots of Pharaoh, I have compared thee, my friend,

and we -- we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

we -- we love him, because He -- He first loved us;

The grace with all those loving our Lord Jesus Christ -- undecayingly! Amen.

Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

Better is open reproof than hidden love.

And the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned,

and this is the command we have from Him, that he who is loving God, may also love his brother.

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

if any one may say -- 'I love God,' and his brother he may hate, a liar he is; for he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God -- whom he hath not seen -- how is he able to love?

for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome;

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

and the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God, and to the endurance of the Christ.

The love doth never fail; and whether there be prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;

'But I have against thee: That thy first love thou didst leave!

and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;

and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

the love to the neighbour doth work no ill; the love, therefore, is the fulness of law.

who also did declare to us your love in the Spirit.

My beloved hath answered and said to me, 'Rise up, my friend, my fair one, and come away,

The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good;

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him in all things, who is the head -- the Christ;

'A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;

that their hearts may be comforted, being united in love, and to all riches of the full assurance of the understanding, to the full knowledge of the secret of the God and Father, and of the Christ,