22 Bible Verses about Jesus Christ, Love Of

(Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.)

For the love of Christ controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died.

"I give you a new commandment -- to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

No one has greater love than this -- that one lays down his life for his friends.

and from Jesus Christ -- the faithful witness, the firstborn from among the dead, the ruler over the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and has set us free from our sins at the cost of his own blood

All those I love, I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent!

So when Jesus had washed their feet and put his outer clothing back on, he took his place at the table again and said to them, "Do you understand what I have done for you?

and thus to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that although he was rich, he became poor for your sakes, so that you by his poverty could become rich.

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost."

[But Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they don't know what they are doing."] Then they threw dice to divide his clothes.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

So he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.

For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands -- the representation of the true sanctuary -- but into heaven itself, and he appears now in God's presence for us.

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would have none of it!

When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were bewildered and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

As he got out he saw the large crowd, and he had compassion on them and healed their sick.

Then Jesus called the disciples and said, "I have compassion on the crowd, because they have already been here with me three days and they have nothing to eat. I don't want to send them away hungry since they may faint on the way."

When the Lord saw her, he had compassion for her and said to her, "Do not weep."

In this way what was spoken by Isaiah the prophet was fulfilled: "He took our weaknesses and carried our diseases."

"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.