21 Bible Verses about Christ's Love

Then Jesus looked at him and loved him, and said to him, "You lack one thing. Go, sell everything you have, and give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; then come back and follow me."

Now Jesus held in loving esteem Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

So the sisters sent this message to Jesus, "Lord, listen! the one you love so well is sick."

So the Jews said, "See how tenderly He loved him!"

One of the disciples, whom Jesus specially loved, was sitting very close to Jesus at His right.

So Jesus, on seeing His mother and the disciple whom He loved standing near, said to His mother, "There is your son."

So she ran away and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple whom Jesus tenderly loved, and said to them, "They have taken away the Lord from the tomb, and we do not know where they have put Him."

So that disciple whom Jesus used to love tenderly said to Peter, "It is the Lord!" When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he belted on his fisherman's coat, for he had taken it off, and plunged into the sea.

Peter turned and saw following them the disciple whom Jesus specially loved, who at the supper leaned back upon Jesus' breast and asked, "Lord, who is it that is going to betray you?"

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.

I have been crucified with Christ, and I myself no longer live, but Christ is living in me; the life I now live as a mortal man I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.

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

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.

Whoever continues to hold and keep my commands is the one who really loves me, and whoever really loves me will be loved by my Father; yes, I will love him myself and will make myself real to him."

so that you with all God's people may be strong enough to grasp the idea of the breadth and length, the height and depth, 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.

Before the Passover feast started, Jesus knew that His time had come for Him to leave the world and go to the Father, and as He had loved His own in the world He loved them to the last.

You married men must love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her,

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.

and from Jesus Christ the trustworthy witness, the First-born of the dead, and the Sovereign of the kings of the earth. To Him who ever loves us and once for all released us from our sins by His blood,

For the love of Christ continuously constrains me, because I am convinced that as One died for all, all have died,