56 Bible Verses about loving

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.

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

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

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

Let all that you do be done from motives of love.

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.

"If you love those who love you, what credit is it to you? Why, even bad men love those who love them.

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

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

This is my commandment to you, to love one another as I have loved you.

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

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.

And so there remain Faith, Hope, Love--these three; and of these the greatest is Love.

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.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own property. But because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world--for that reason the world hates you.

This agrees with the other Scripture which says, "Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated."

with all lowliness of mind and unselfishness, and with patience, bearing with one another lovingly, and earnestly striving to maintain,

We love because God first loved us.

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

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.

By this we can distinguish God's children and the Devil's children: no one who fails to act righteously is a child of God, nor he who does not love his brother man.

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

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

But I command you all, love your enemies, and pray for your persecutors;

I know your doings, your love, your faith, your service, and your patient endurance; and that of late you have toiled harder than you did at first.

and the grace of our Lord came to me in overflowing fulness, conferring faith on me and the love which is in Christ Jesus.

"If you love me, you will obey my commandments.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

and as for you, may the Lord teach you to love one another and all men, with a growing and a glowing love, resembling our love for you.

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.