79 Bible Verses about Agape Love

"This is my command, Love one another as I have loved you. "Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Love never fails; but though there are prophecies, they will fail; though there are tongues, they will cease; though there is knowledge, it will be superseded.

"But woe unto you Pharisee! for you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and disregard justice and the love of God; but these you ought to have done, and not leave the other undone.

"that you have not the love of God in yourselves.

By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another."

"As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love.

"If you obey my commands you will abide in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and abide in his love.

"Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

And I have declared??nd will declare??hy name unto them, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and that I may be in them."

But God gives proof of his love to us by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

What shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall anguish, or calamity, or persecution, or famine? Shall nakedness, or peril, or sword?

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

Let love be without insincerity. Abhor what is evil; wed yourselves to what is good.

Love never wrongs his neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilment of the Law.

If your brother is continually pained because of your food, you are not conducting yourself any longer in love. Do not, by what you eat, persist in destroying a man for whom Christ died.

Brothers, I beseech you, by Jesus Christ our Lord, and by the love which the Spirit gives, to help me in my struggle by your prayers to God on my behalf,

because in Christ neither circumcision has any value, nor uncircumcision, but faith which works through love.

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.

But the harvest-fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity, gentleness, and self-control;

Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world to be holy and without blemish in his sight.

For this reason I also, from the time when I heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which prevails among you, and your love to all the saints,

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,

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,

and may know the love of Christ which transcends all knowing, so that you may be filled with all the "plenitude" of God.

With all humility and gentleness and long-suffering forbear with one another in love;

but holding the truth in love we shall grow up in every part into him who is our Head, even Christ.

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.

and to lead lives of love, just as Christ also loved you and gave himself up for you, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for you, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for "an odor of sweetness."

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

(since I heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and your love to all the saints)

and it is he who has told me of your love for me in the spirit.

For he has delivered us out of the dominion of the darkness, and transplanted us into the kingdom of his dear Son,

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.

Over them all bind on love, which is the girdle of completeness.

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.

But now that Timothy has returned from you to me, and has brought good news of your faith and love, and that you are still holding me in affectionate remembrance, always longing to see me as I also am longing to see you.

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.

But let us who are of the day be self-controlled, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

Esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. Live in peace among yourselves.

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.

and with all deceit of unrighteousness for those who are perishing, because they did not receive the love of the truth for their salvation.

May the Lord incline your hearts to the love of God and to the stedfastness of Christ.

Now the end of the exhortation is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and an undissembled faith.

And the grace of our Lord overflowed with faith and love that is in Christ Jesus.

Notwithstanding she will be saved by the Child-bearing; (so will they all), if they live in faith and love and holiness, with self-restraint.

Let no one despise you on account of your youth, but become an example for the faithful in word, in life, in love, in faith, in purity.

But you, O servant of God, flee from these things, and run after integrity, piety, faith, love, stedfastness, gentleness.

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

Hold fast the pattern of sound teaching you have heard from me in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

Flee from the passions of youth, but run after righteousness, faith, love, and peace, in company with those who out of a pure heart call upon the Lord.

But you, Timothy, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aims, my faith, patience, love, endurance,

because I am hearing of your love and of the faith which you hold, not only toward the Lord Jesus Christ, but toward all the saints.

For I have great joy and comfort in your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed.

yet for love's sake, I rather beseech you, I, Paul, an old man, and now a prisoner for Christ Jesus!

Above everything have fervent love to one another; for love veils a multitude of sins.

Salute one another with a kiss of love. Peace be to you all who are in Christ Jesus.

and to piety brotherly love, and to brotherly love, love itself.

and the truth is not in him; bit if any man obey his word, in him truly is the love of God made perfect. By this we come to know that we are in him.

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Behold what manner of love the Father has given us in allowing us to be called "Children of God!" And that is what we are. For this reason the world does not recognize us, because it did not know him.

By this we learn to know love, because he laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

But whoever has this world's goods, and beholds his brother in need, and shuts up his heart against him, how can the love of God continue to abide in him?

Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God; and every one that loves us a child of God.

He who does not love, does not know God; for God is love.

In this was the love of God clearly shown toward us, by his sending his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.

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

No man has ever gazed on God; but if we love one another, God ever abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

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.

In this is love made perfect with us, so that we may have cheerful confidence in the Day of Judgment, because we are living in this world as He lives.

Fear does not exist in love; but love, when it is perfect, drives out fear. For fear has always torment, and he who has fear is not yet perfected in love.

For love to God means obeying his commandments; and his commandments are not irksome.

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

And this is love, that we should lead our lives according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should pass your life in love.

They have borne testimony to your love before the church. You will do well to speed them on their way worthily of God;

May mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you.

These are they who are stains upon your love-feasts; when they feast sumptuously without scruple, looking after none but themselves. They are clouds without water, driven along by the winds; trees of autumn, fruitless, doubly dead, torn up by the roots,

must keep yourselves in the love of God, while waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, which ends in life eternal.

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 endurance; I know that your last works are more than the first.