80 Bible Verses about Agape Love

This is my commandment: that you love one another just as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this: that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Love never ends. But if [there are] prophecies, they will pass away. If [there are] tongues, they will cease. If [there is] knowledge, it will pass away.

"But woe to you, Pharisees, because you pay a tenth of mint and rue and every garden herb, and neglect justice and love for God! But it was necessary to do these [things] without neglecting those things also.

but I know you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves.

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples--if you have love for one another."

"Just as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and remain in his love.

No one has greater love than this: that someone lay down his life for his friends.

And I made known to them your name, and will make [it] known, in order that the love [with] which you loved me may be in them, and I [may be] in them."

and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

but God demonstrates his own love for us, [in] that [while] we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? [Will] affliction or distress or persecution or hunger or lack of sufficient clothing or danger or the sword?

nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Love must be without hypocrisy. Abhor what [is] evil; be attached to what [is] good,

Love does not commit evil against a neighbor. Therefore love [is the] fulfillment of the law.

For if because of food, your brother is grieved, you are no longer living according to love. Do not destroy by your food that person for whom Christ died.

Now I exhort you, brothers, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to contend along with me in your prayers on my behalf to God,

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not let your freedom [become] an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, [that] we should be holy and blameless before him in love,

Because of this I also, hearing of {your faith} in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,

But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love [with] which he loved us,

[that] Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith (you having been firmly rooted and established in love),

and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, in order that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

with all humility and gentleness, with patience, putting up with one another in love,

But speaking the truth in love, we are to grow into him [with reference to] all [things], who is the head, Christ,

from whom the whole body, joined together and held together by every supporting ligament, according to the working by measure of each single part, the growth of the body makes for the building up of itself in love.

and live in love, just as also Christ loved us, and gave himself for us an offering and sacrifice to God for a fragrant smell.

Peace to the brothers and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

[since we] heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have for all the saints,

[who] also made clear to us your love in the Spirit.

who has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred [us] to the kingdom of the Son {he loves},

so that their hearts may be encouraged, united in love and into all the wealth of the full assurance of insight into the knowledge of the mystery of God, Christ,

And to all these [things] [add] love, which is [the] bond of perfection.

[because we] remember your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father,

But now, [because] Timothy has come to us from you and has brought good news to us of your faith and love, and that {you always think kindly of us}, desiring to see us just as also we [desire to see] you,

and [may] the Lord [cause] you to increase and to abound in love for one another and for all, just as also we [do] for you,

But [because] we are of the day, we must be sober, [by] putting on the breastplate of faith and love and [as] a helmet the hope of salvation,

and to esteem them beyond all measure in love, because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.

We ought to give thanks to God always concerning you, brothers, just as it is fitting, because your faith is flourishing and the love of each one of you all toward one another is increasing

and with every unrighteous deception against those who are perishing, in place of which they did not accept the love of the truth, so that they would be saved.

Now may the Lord direct your hearts toward the love of God and toward the patient endurance of Christ.

But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a faith without hypocrisy,

and the grace of our Lord abounded with the faith and love [that are] in Christ Jesus.

But she will be saved through the bearing of children, if she continues in faith and love and holiness with self-control.

Let no one look down on your youth, but be an example for the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

But you, O man of God, flee from these [things], and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patient endurance, gentleness.

For God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power and love and self-discipline.

Hold fast to the pattern of sound words which you heard from me, in the faith and love [that are] in Christ Jesus.

But flee from youthful desires, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, [and] peace, in company with those who call upon the Lord from a pure heart.

But you have faithfully followed my teaching, way of life, purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance,

[because I] hear about your love and faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints.

For I have great joy and encouragement from your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

instead I appeal to [you] because of love, [since I] am such a one as Paul, now an old man and also a prisoner of Christ Jesus.

Above all, keep your love for one another constant, because love covers a large number of sins.

Greet one another with a loving kiss. Peace to all of you who are in Christ.

and with godliness, brotherly love, and with brotherly love, love.

But whoever keeps his word, truly in this person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in him.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called children of God, and we are! Because of this the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

We have come to know love by this: that {he} laid down his life on behalf of us, and we ought to lay down our lives on behalf of the brothers.

But whoever has the world's material possessions and observes his brother {in need} and shuts his heart against him, how does the love of God reside in him?

Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.

The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God sent his one and only Son into the world in order that we may live through him.

In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son [to be the] propitiation for our sins.

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us and his love is perfected in us.

And we have come to know and have believed the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.

By this love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because just as that one is, [so] also are we in this world.

[There] is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear includes punishment, and the one who is afraid has not been perfected in love.

For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome,

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

And this is love: that we walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.

They have testified [to] your love before the church; you will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God.

May mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you.

These are the ones feasting together without reverence, hidden reefs at your love feasts, caring for themselves, waterless clouds carried away by winds, late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted,

keep yourselves in the love of God, looking forward to the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.

But I have [this] against you: that you have left your first love.

'I know your works, and your love, and faith, and service, and patient endurance--and your last works [are] greater than the first.