80 Bible Verses about Agape Love

This is my command--Love one another, as I have loved you. No one can give greater proof of love than by laying down his life for his friends.

Love never fails. But, whether it be the gift of preaching, it will be done with; whether it be the gift of 'tongues,' it will cease; whether it be knowledge, it, too, will be done with.

But alas for you Pharisees! You pay tithes on mint, rue, and herbs of all kinds, and pass over justice and love to God. These last you ought to have put into practice without neglecting the first.

But I know this of you, that you have not the love of God in your hearts.

It is by this that every one will recognize you as my disciples--by your loving one another."

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

If you lay my commands to heart, you will remain in my love; just as I have laid the Father's commands to heart and remain in his love.

No one can give greater proof of love than by laying down his life for his friends.

I have made thee known to them, and will do so still; that the love that thou has had for me may be in their hearts, and that I may be in them also."

And that 'hope never disappoints.' For the love of God has filled our hearts through the Holy Spirit which was given us;

But God puts his love for us beyond all doubt by the fact that Christ died on our behalf while we were still sinners.

Who is there to separate us from the love of the Christ? Will trouble, or difficulty, or persecution, or hunger, or nakedness, 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 revealed in Christ Jesus, our Lord!

Let your love be sincere. Hate the wrong; cling to the right.

Love never wrongs a neighbor. Therefore Love fully satisfies the Law.

If, for the sake of what you eat, you wound your Brother's feelings, your life has ceased to be ruled by love. Do not, by what you eat, ruin a man for whom Christ died!

I beg you, then, Brothers, by Jesus Christ, our Lord, and by the love inspired by the Spirit, to join me in earnest prayer to God on my behalf.

If a man is in union with Christ Jesus, neither is circumcision nor the omission of it anything, but faith, working through love, is everything.

Remember, Brothers, to you the Call came to give you freedom. Only do not make your freedom an opportunity for self-indulgence, but serve one another in a loving spirit.

But the fruit produced by the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindliness, generosity, trustfulness, gentleness, self-control.

For he chose us in our union with Christ before the creation of the universe, that we might be holy and blameless in his sight, living in the spirit of love.

And therefore I, ever since I heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which prevails among you, and of your confidence in all Christ's People,

Yet God, in his abundant compassion, and because of the great love with which he loved us,

So that the Christ, through your faith, may make his home within your hearts in love; And I pray that you, now firmly rooted and established, may, with all Christ's People,

And to understand--though it surpasses all understanding--the love of the Christ; and so be filled to the full with God himself.

Always humble and gentle, patient, bearing lovingly with one another,

But holding the truth in a spirit of love, we shall grow into complete union with him who is our Head--Christ himself.

For from him the whole Body, closely joined and knit together by the contact of every part with the source of its life, derives its power to grow, in proportion to the vigor of each individual part; and so is being built up in a spirit of love.

And live a life of love, following the example of the Christ, who loved you and gave himself for you as 'an offering and a sacrifice to God, that should be fragrant and acceptable.'

May God, the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ give our Brothers peace, and love linked with faith.

Now that we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all his People,

And who told us of the love with which the Spirit has inspired you.

For God has rescued us from the tyranny of Darkness, and has removed us into the Kingdom of his Son, who is the embodiment of his love,

In the hope that they, being bound to one another by love, and keeping in view the full blessedness of a firm conviction, may be encouraged to strive for a perfect knowledge of God's hidden Truth,

Over all these virtues put on love; for that is the girdle which makes all complete.

Recalling continually before our God and Father the efforts that have resulted from your faith, the toil prompted by your love, and the patient endurance sustained by your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

But, when Timothy recently returned to us from you with good news of your faith and love, and told us how kindly you think of us--always longing, he said, to see us, just as we are longing to see you--

And for you, may the Lord fill you to overflowing with love for one another and for every one, just as we are filled with love for you;

But let us, who belong to the Day, control ourselves, and put on faith and love as a breast plate, and the hope of Salvation as a helmet.

Hold them in the very greatest esteem and affection for the sake of their work. Live at peace with one another.

Brothers, it is our duty always to thank God about you, as is but right, considering the wonderful growth of your faith, and because, without exception, your love for one another is continually increasing.

to the ruin of those who are on the path to destruction, because they have never received and loved the Truth to their own Salvation.

May the Lord bring you to the love of God, and to the patience of the Christ.

The object of all instruction is to call forth that love which comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith.

and the loving-kindness of our Lord was boundless, and filled me with that faith and love which come from union with Christ Jesus.

But women will find their salvation in motherhood, if they never abandon faith, love, or holiness, and behave with modesty.

Do not let any one look down on you because you are young, but, by your conversation, your conduct, your love, your faith, and your purity, be an example to those who hold the Faith.

But do you, Servant of God, avoid all this. Aim at righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, gentleness.

For the Spirit which God gave us was not a spirit of cowardice, but a spirit of power, love, and self-control.

Keep before you, as an example of sound teaching, all that you learnt from me as you listened with that faith and love which come from union with Christ Jesus.

Flee from the passions of youth, but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, in the company of those who, with a pure heart, invoke the Lord.

But you, Timothy, were a close observer of my teaching, my conduct, my purposes, my faith, my forbearance, my love, and my patient endurance,

Because I hear of the love and the faith which you show, not only to the Lord Jesus, but also to all his People;

I have indeed found great joy and encouragement in your love, knowing, as I do, how the hearts of Christ's People have been cheered, brother, by you.

Yet the claims of love make me prefer to plead with you--yes, even me, Paul, though I am an ambassador for Christ Jesus and, now a prisoner for him as well.

Above all things, let your love for one another be earnest, for 'Love throws a veil over countless sins.'

Greet one another with the kiss of love. May God give his peace to you all in your union with Christ.

piety by brotherly affection, and brotherly affection by love.

but, whenever a man lays his Message to heart, in that man the love of God has indeed reached its perfection. By this we know that we are in union with God--

Do not love the world or what the world can offer. When any one loves the world, there is no love for the Father in him;

Think what love the Father has shown us in allowing us to be called 'Children of God'; as indeed we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it has not learned to know him.

We have learned to know what love is from this--that Christ laid down his life on our behalf. Therefore we also ought to lay down our lives on behalf of our Brothers.

But, if any one has worldly possessions, and yet looks on while his Brother is in want, and steels his heart against him, how can it be said that the love of God is within him?

Dear friends, let us love one another, because Love comes from God; and every one who loves has received the new Life from God and knows God.

He who does not love has not learned to know God; for God is Love.

The love of God was revealed to us by his sending his only Son into the world, that we might find Life through him.

His love is seen in this--not in our having loved God, but in his loving us and sending his Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

No human eyes have ever seen God, yet, if we love one another, God remains in union with us, and his love attains its perfection in us.

And, moreover, we have learned to know, and have accepted as a fact, the love which God has for us. God is Love; and he who lives in love lives in God, and God in him.

It is through this that love has attained its perfection in us, so that we may have confidence on the Day of Judgment, because what Christ is that we also are in this world.

There is no fear in love. No! Love, when perfect, drives out fear, for fear implies punishment, and the man who feels fear has not attained to perfect love.

For to love God is to lay his commands to heart; and his commands are not burdensome,

Blessing, mercy, and peace will be ours--the gift of God, the Father, and of Jesus Christ, the Father's Son--in a life of truth and love.

And this is love--to live in obedience to the Father's commands. This is the Command as you learned from the first, to live in a spirit of love.

They themselves have testified before the Church to your love; and you will do well to help them on their way in a manner worthy of the service of God.

May mercy, peace, and love be yours in ever-increasing measure.

These are the men who are blots upon your 'Love-feasts,' when they feast together and provide without scruple for themselves alone. They are clouds without rain, driven before the winds; they are leafless trees without a vestige of fruit, dead through and through, torn up by the roots;

and keep within the love of God, while waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, to bring you to Immortal Life.

But this I have against you--You have abandoned your first love.

I know your life, your love, faith, service, and endurance; and I know that your life of late has been better than it was at first.