56 Bible Verses about loving

You that have purified your souls by the holy spirit, in obeying the gospel, which obliges you to an undisguised benevolence, let your hearts be mutually affected with the most disinterested ardour;

my dear children, let not our love be only in the language of our lips, but in the real effects of the heart.

to all this add love, which is the band of perfect union:

he that has not social affection, does not know God; for God is love.

let all your transactions flow from social affections.

by this was the love of God displayed towards us, in that God sent his only begotten son into the world, that we might live thro' him.

for if you only love those, who love you, where's the obligation? the very heathen return love for love.

there cannot be greater love than that of a man, who lays down his life for his friends.

grace be with all those that have love uncorrupted for our Lord Jesus Christ. amen.

this is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.

but above all, let your mutual benevolence be intense, for benevolence cancels a multitude of offences.

Love not the world, nor let worldly things engage your affections. he that is worldly affected is a stranger to divine love.

and now faith, hope, social virtue, these three will all remain; but the most permanent of the three is social virtue.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God.

if you were of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world does hate you.

as it is written, "Jacob have I loved, but Esau I have discarded."

with all humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another in love;

let us love him; since he first loved us.

Social affection is patient, is kind; is a stranger to envy; is not insolently vain, nor arrogant: does not behave indecently,

and we have known, and are convinced that God hath loved us. God is love; and he that cultivates social affection, dwelleth in God, and God in him.

In this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: he that does not practise virtue, and fraternal benevolence, is not of God.

in brotherly kindness be passionately affected to one another; in honour prefer one another:

besides, 'tis a commandment we have receiv'd from him, that he who would love God, must love his brother also.

but I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them who traduce you, and persecute you:

your charitable offices, your faith, and your patience, and that your last works exceed the first.

but the favour of our Lord display'd itself by that faith and charity, which was wrought in me by Jesus Christ.

if ye love me, keep my commandments.

and tho' I distribute my whole substance to the poor, and give my body to be burned, and have not social affection, it profits me nothing.

if a man says he loves God, and yet hates his brother, he is a lyar: for he that does not love his brother, who is before his eyes, how can he love God who is invisible?

Fear is a stranger to love; for perfect loves excludes all fear: since pain is the object of fear, he that is affected with fear, cannot be sincere in his love.

and tho' I should have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and tho' I had all the faith necessary to remove mountains, and had no benevolence, it would signify nothing.

now love consists in the practice of the divine precepts. this is the precept you have originally receiv'd, as the rule of your conduct.

may the Lord make you increase and abound in mutual love, in love towards all men, as we do towards you:

such a charge will produce that charity, which arises from purity, from a good conscience, and a sincere belief: