47 Bible Verses about Being Loved

by this was the love of God displayed towards us, in that God sent his only begotten son into the world, that we might live thro' him.

for if you only love those, who love you, where's the obligation? the very heathen return love for love.

let us love him; since he first loved us.

to all this add love, which is the band of perfect union:

and what heightens his love, was this, that it was not we who first loved God, but it was he that first loved us, and sent his son to expiate our sins.

Consider what proof the father has given us of his love, in allowing us to be called the sons of God: therefore the world does not know us, because it knew him not.

but herein hath God displayed his love towards us, in that Christ died for us, even while we were yet sinners.

I shall be glad to sacrifice myself and all I have for your service, even tho' it should happen that the more I love you, the less I should be beloved.

that their hearts might be comforted, and that being firmly united in love, they might possess the highest and fullest persuasion of the truth of this doctrine, by entring into this mystery, even of God the father, and of Christ,

my dear children, let not our love be only in the language of our lips, but in the real effects of the heart.

compleat my joy, by pursuing the same view, living in mutual love, by being unanimous, and cultivating that harmony.

now love consists in the practice of the divine precepts. this is the precept you have originally receiv'd, as the rule of your conduct.

Love not the world, nor let worldly things engage your affections. he that is worldly affected is a stranger to divine love.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God.

and we have known, and are convinced that God hath loved us. God is love; and he that cultivates social affection, dwelleth in God, and God in him.

then it was that God, who is rich in mercy, thro' his great love, wherewith he loved us,

Fear is a stranger to love; for perfect loves excludes all fear: since pain is the object of fear, he that is affected with fear, cannot be sincere in his love.

this is the proof of the divine love, Christ expos'd his life for us: and we ought to expose our lives for the brethren.

and now faith, hope, social virtue, these three will all remain; but the most permanent of the three is social virtue.

he that has not social affection, does not know God; for God is love.

and be sensible of his exceeding love, in giving you the knowledge of Christ, that you may be filled with all the supplies of divine bounty.

for the father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I had my mission from God.

by this mutual love shall all men know that you are my disciples.

as the father has loved me, and I have loved you: so do you persevere in your love to me.

I in them, and thou in me, that they may have a perfect union, and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

besides, 'tis a commandment we have receiv'd from him, that he who would love God, must love his brother also.

if a man says he loves God, and yet hates his brother, he is a lyar: for he that does not love his brother, who is before his eyes, how can he love God who is invisible?

he that loveth father or mother more than me, is unworthy of me: he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is unworthy of me.

for Christ loved us, and for us gave himself an offering and a sacrifice acceptable to God.

beloved, if God so loved us, we ought to love one another.

never forgetting the effects of your faith, your charitable offices, and the constancy of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ; of which God is our witness.

so that your souls may be possess'd with faith in Christ.

this is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.

for God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him, should not perish, but have eternal life.

and thereby cultivate the divine favour, in the expectation of eternal life by the mercy of Jesus Christ our Lord.

the divine love to us will be in the highest degree, if our condition in this world be the same as was that of Christ Jesus; so that we may appear with confidence in the day of judgment.

but being sincere in mutual love, may be entirely united to Christ, who is the head:

but if a man love God, the same is taught by him.

to all the beloved of God, the saints by this vocation, who are in Rome, grace to you, and peace from God our father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

a new commandment I give unto you, "that ye love one another; that you would have the same love for one another as I have had for you."

and tho' I distribute my whole substance to the poor, and give my body to be burned, and have not social affection, it profits me nothing.

for our love of God consists in the observation of his precepts: precepts that are far from being grievous.

for, brethren, you have been called to liberty. only abuse not this freedom as a pretext to vice, but in offices of love be as servants one to another.

and tho' I should have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and tho' I had all the faith necessary to remove mountains, and had no benevolence, it would signify nothing.

Be ye rooted and grounded in social virtue, that you may be able to comprehend with all saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height of this mystery:

let all your transactions flow from social affections.

Let brotherly love still reign.