80 Bible Verses about Agape Love

This is my command to you, to keep on loving one another as I have loved you. No one can show greater love than this, the giving of his life for his friends.

Love never fails; if there are prophecies, they will be set aside; if now exist ecstatic speakings, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will soon be set aside;

But a curse on you Pharisees, because you pay tithes on mint, rue, and every tiny garden herb, but neglect justice and the love of God! These latter especially you ought to have done, but ought not to have neglected the former.

but I am sure that you do not have the love of God in your hearts.

By this everybody will know that you are my disciples, if you keep on showing love for one another."

I have loved you just as the Father has loved me. You must remain in my love.

If you continue to keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain in His love.

No one can show greater love than this, the giving of his life for his friends.

and I made known to them your very self, and I will make you known still further, so that the love which you have shown to me may be felt in them, and I in union with them."

and hope never disappoints us; for through the Holy Spirit that has been given us, God's love has flooded our hearts.

But God proves His love for us by the fact that Christ died for us while we were still sinners.

Who can separate us from Christ's love? Can suffering or misfortune or persecution or hunger or destitution or danger or the sword?

nor evil forces above or beneath, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God as shown in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Your love must be true. You must always turn in horror from what is wrong, but keep on holding to what is right.

Love never does a wrong to one's neighbor; so love is the perfect satisfaction of the law.

For if your brother is hurt because of the food you eat, you are not living by the standard of love. Stop ruining, by what you eat, the man for whom Christ died.

Now I beg you, brothers, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love that the Spirit inspires, to wrestle with me in prayers to God on my behalf,

For in union with Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor lack of it counts for anything; but only faith that is spurred on to action by love.

For you, brothers, were called to freedom; only you must not let your freedom be an excuse for the gratification of your lower nature, but in love be slaves to one another.

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

Through Him He picked us out before the creation of the world, to be consecrated and above reproach in His sight in love.

This is why I myself, since I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and in all His people,

But God, who is so rich in mercy on account of the great love He has for us,

and that Christ in His love, through your faith, may make His permanent home in your hearts. You must be deeply rooted, your foundations must be strong,

yes, to come at last to know the love of Christ, although it far surpasses human understanding, so that you may be filled with the perfect fullness of God.

with perfect humility and gentleness, with patience, lovingly bearing with one another,

But, on the other hand, we shall go on holding to the truth and in love growing up into perfect union with Him, that is, Christ Himself who is the Head.

For it is under His direction that the whole body is perfectly adjusted and united by every joint that furnishes its supplies; and by the proper functioning of each particular part there is brought about the growing of the body for its building up in love.

and practice living in love, just as Christ loved you too and gave Himself for you as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

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

because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of your love for all God's people,

he is the very one who told me of the love awakened in you by the Spirit.

It is God who has delivered us out of the dominion of darkness and has transferred us into the kingdom of His dearly loved Son,

that their hearts may be encouraged, by having been knit together in love and by having atoned to the full assurance of understanding, so that they may finally reach the fullest knowledge of the open secret, Christ Himself,

And over all these qualities put on love, which is the tie of perfection that binds us together.

for we can never for a moment before our God forget your energizing faith, your toiling love, and your enduring hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

But now, since Timothy has just come back to me from you, and brought me good tidings of your faith and love, and told me how kindly you remembered me and that you are longing to see me as much as I am to see you,

May the Lord make you increase and overflow in love for one another and for all men, as my love for you does,

but let us who belong to the day keep sober, clothed with faith and love for a coat of mail and with the hope of salvation for a helmet.

continue to hold them in the highest esteem for the sake of the work they do. Practice living at peace with one another.

We always ought to be thanking God for you, brothers, as it is right to do so, because your faith is growing so much and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing

and with a completely wicked deception for men who are on the way to destruction, because they refused to love the truth so as to be saved.

May the Lord guide you into a realization of God's love for you and into a patient endurance like Christ's.

But the aim of your instruction is to be love that flows out of a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith.

and the spiritual blessing of our Lord in increasing floods has come upon me, accompanied by faith and love inspired by union with Christ Jesus.

But women will be saved through motherhood, if they continue to live in faith, love, and purity, blended with good sense.

Let no one think little of you because you are young, but always set an example for believers, in speech, conduct, love, faith, and purity.

But you, as a man of God, must be fleeing always from these things; you must constantly strive for uprightness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.

For the Spirit that God has given us does not impart timidity but power and love and self-control.

Continue to be an example in wholesome instructions which you learned from me, in the faith and love that come through union with Christ Jesus.

You must keep on fleeing from the evil impulses of youth, but ever strive for uprightness, faith, love, and peace, in association with those who call upon the Lord with pure hearts.

But you, on your part, have faithfully followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness,

because I continue to hear of the love and faith you have in the Lord Jesus and all His people,

Yes, I have felt great joy and encouragement over your love, because the hearts of God's people have been refreshed by you, my brother.

yet I prefer to appeal to you for love's sake, although I am such as I am, Paul an envoy of Christ Jesus but now a prisoner for Him too;

Above everything else keep your love for one another fervent, because love covers up a multitude of sins.

Greet one another with a kiss of love. Peace to all of you that are in union with Christ.

piety with brotherly affection, brotherly affection with universal love.

but whoever practices obedience to His message really has a perfect love of God in his heart. By this we can be sure that we are in union with Him:

Stop loving the world, or the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, there is no love for the Father in his heart,

See what wonderful love the Father has bestowed on us in letting us be called God's children, and that is what we are! This is why the world does not know what we are, because it has never come to know Him.

We know what love is from the fact that He laid down His life for us; and so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

But if anyone has the world's means of supporting life and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how can love to God remain in him?

Dearly beloved, let us practice loving one another, because love originates with God, and everyone who practices loving is a child of God and knows God by experience.

Whoever does not love has never come to know God by experience, because God is love.

This is the way God's love for us has been shown, namely, God has sent His only Son into the world that we through Him might have life.

In this way is seen the true love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

No one has ever seen God; yet if we practice loving one another, God remains in union with us, and our love for Him attains perfection in our hearts,

So we know by experience and trust the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever continues to love continues in union with God and God in union with him.

Our love attains perfection through our having perfect confidence about the day of judgment, because here in this world we are living as He did.

There is no fear in love, and perfect love drives out fear, because fear pertains to punishment, and no one who is subject to fear has attained perfection in love.

For love to God means this, to practice obedience to His commands, and His commands are not burdensome,

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

Now love means this, that we keep on living in accordance with His commands. The command is this, that we continue to live in love.

They have testified before the church to your love. You will please send them off on their journey in a way befitting the service of God.

may mercy, peace, and love in abundance be given you.

They are blots on your love feasts while they feast with you, daringly caring for no one but themselves; rainless clouds swept along by winds; leafless trees that bear no fruit, doubly dead, uprooted;

you must keep yourselves in the love of God and continue to wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, to bring you to eternal life.

But I hold it against you that you do not love me as you did at first.

"I know what you are doing, I know your love and faithfulness, your service and patient endurance, and I know that you are now working harder than you did at first.