76 Bible Verses about Love, Nature Of

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you;

For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline.

And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him.

Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

and hope putteth not to shame; because the love of God hath been shed abroad in our hearts through the Holy Spirit which was given unto us.

Now I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;

who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.

Jehovah appeared of old unto me,'saying , Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

Thou in thy lovingkindness hast led the people that thou hast redeemed: Thou hast guided them in thy strength to thy holy habitation.

And Jehovah passed by before him, and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth,

O Jehovah God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember thy lovingkindnesses to David thy servant.

Return, O Jehovah, deliver my soul: Save me for thy lovingkindness'sake.

Many sorrows shall be to the wicked; But he that trusteth in Jehovah, lovingkindness shall compass him about.

Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

Whoso is wise will give heed to these things; And they will consider the lovingkindnesses of Jehovah.

For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my lovingkindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed, saith Jehovah that hath mercy on thee.

I will make mention of the lovingkindnesses of Jehovah, and the praises of Jehovah, according to all that Jehovah hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.

It is of Jehovah's lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in justice, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in yourselves.

If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.

but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and'such we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself.

He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself unto him.

So when they had broken their fast, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon,'son of John, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs.

And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he hath been approved, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them that love him.

whom not having seen ye love; on whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory:

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law.

My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.

I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.

with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;

that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, even Christ,

suffering wrong as the hire of wrong-doing; men that count it pleasure to revel in the day-time, spots and blemishes, revelling in their deceivings while they feast with you;

Woe unto you Pharisees! for ye love the chief seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the marketplaces.

And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

for they loved the glory that is of men more than the glory that is of God.

for Demas forsook me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the'son of Beor, who loved the hire of wrong-doing;

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil; rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth;read more.
beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall be done away.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned:

Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently:

There is no fear in love: but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath punishment; and he that feareth is not made perfect in love.

But whoso hath the world's goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him? My Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.

But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

For if because of meat thy brother is grieved, thou walkest no longer in love. Destroy not with thy meat him for whom Christ died.

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Herein was the love of God manifested in us, that God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him.

Hereby we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

And he said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second like unto it is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

Jesus answered, The first is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God, the Lord is one: and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength. The second is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not covet, and if there be any other commandment, it is summed up in this word, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: love therefore is the fulfilment of the law.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be strong to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God.

and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.

and in your godliness brotherly kindness; and in your brotherly kindness love.

He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is no occasion of stumbling in him.