22 Bible Verses about Jesus Christ, Love Of

Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

For the love of Christ overmasters us, the conclusion at which we have arrived being this--that One having died for all, His death was their death,

A new commandment I give you, to love one another; that as I have loved you, you also may love one another.

No one has greater love than this--a man laying down his life for his friends.

and from Jesus Christ, the truthful witness, the first of the dead to be born to Life, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has freed us from our sins with His own blood,

All whom I hold dear, I reprove and chastise; therefore be in earnest and repent.

So after He had washed their feet, put on His garments again, and returned to the table, He said to them, "Do you understand what I have done to you?

yes, to attain to a knowledge of the knowledge-surpassing love of Christ, so that you may be made complete in accordance with God's own standard of completeness.

We know what love is--through Christ's having laid down His life on our behalf; and in the same way we ought to lay down our lives for our brother men.

For you know the condescending goodness of our Lord Jesus Christ--how for your sakes He became poor, though He was rich, in order that you through His poverty might grow rich.

For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost."

Jesus prayed, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they are doing." And they divided His garments among them, drawing lots for them;

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me; and the life which I now live in the body I live through faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself up to death on my behalf.

Hence too He is able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, seeing that He ever lives to plead for them.

For not into a Holy place built by men's hands--a mere copy of the reality--did Christ enter, but He entered Heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! thou who murderest the Prophets and stonest those who have been sent to thee! how often have I desired to gather thy children to me, just as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not come!

And when He saw the crowds He was touched with pity for them, because they were distressed and were fainting on the ground like sheep which have no shepherd.

So Jesus went out and saw an immense multitude, and felt compassion for them, and cured those of them who were out of health.

But Jesus called His disciples to Him and said, "My heart yearns over this mass of people, for it is now the third day that they have been with me and they have nothing to eat. I am unwilling to send them away hungry, lest they should faint on the road."

The Lord saw her, was moved with pity for her, and said to her, "Do not weep."

in order that this prediction of the Prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled, "He took on Him our weaknesses, and bore the burden of our diseases."

"I am the Good Shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his very life for the sheep.