Ephesians 4:16
From him the whole body (knit together and compacted by all its joints) makes continual growth of the body so as to build itself up in love, through the energy of his bounteous provision, according to the need of each several part.
Colossians 2:19
instead of keeping connection with the Head from the whole body draws nourishment for all its needs by the joints which bind it; and is knit together, and grows with a divine growth.
John 15:5
"I am the Vine you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him, bears abundant fruit; because apart from me you can do nothing.
Ephesians 1:4
Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world to be holy and without blemish in his sight.
1 Corinthians 8:1
Now in regard to food which has been offered to idols, we are sure of course that "we all have knowledge." But knowledge puffs up, while love builds up.
1 Corinthians 12:12-28
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, although they be many, are one body; so also is Christ.
1 Corinthians 13:4-9
Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love makes no parade, is not puffed up,
1 Corinthians 13:13-1
Faith, Hope, Love endure??hese three; but the greatest of these is Love.
Galatians 5:6
because in Christ neither circumcision has any value, nor uncircumcision, but faith which works through love.
Galatians 5:13-14
For you, brothers, were called for freedom; only do not make your freedom an excuse for self-indulgence, but in love enslave yourselves to one another.
Galatians 5:22
But the harvest-fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity, gentleness, and self-control;
Ephesians 3:7
It is of this gospel I became a minister according to the gift of the power of the grace of God, bestowed on me by the energy of his power.
Ephesians 3:17
that Christ may make his home in your hearts through your faith; that you may be so deeply rooted and so firmly grounded in love,
Ephesians 4:12
in order to equip the saints for the work of serving, for the building up of the Body of Christ??13 till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to the maturity of manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.
Ephesians 4:15
but holding the truth in love we shall grow up in every part into him who is our Head, even Christ.
Philippians 1:9
And it is my prayer that your love may abound yet more and more in intelligence and insight
Colossians 2:2
May their hearts be comforted! May they be knit together in love! May they gain in all its riches the full assurance of their understanding! May they come to a perfect knowledge of the secret truth of God, which is Christ himself.
1 Thessalonians 1:3
as I call to mind your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father.
1 Thessalonians 2:13
For this reason also I am giving continual thanks to God, because when you heard from me the spoken word of God, you received it not as the word of men, but as the word of God (which in truth it is), who himself is effectually at work in you believe.
1 Thessalonians 3:12
Meanwhile, may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all men, even as I do toward you.
1 Thessalonians 4:9-10
It is not needed that I should write to you about brotherly love; for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.
2 Thessalonians 1:3
I ought always to thank God for you, brothers, as is fitting because of the abundant growth of your faith and of the overflowing love with which every one of you is filled toward one another.
1 Timothy 1:5
Now the end of the exhortation is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and an undissembled faith.
1 Peter 1:22
Now that by obedience to the truth you have purified your lives for a brotherly love without hypocrisy, you must love one another from your hearts, fervently.
1 John 4:16
And we do know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he who is abiding in love is abiding in God, and God is abiding in him.