76 Bible Verses about Love, Nature Of

Beloved, let us love one another; because love is of God, and every one that loves has been begotten of God, and knows God. He that loves not has not known God; for God is love.

But you, may the Lord make to exceed and abound in love toward one another, and toward all, even as we also towards you,

For God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power, and of love, and of wise discretion.

And we have known and have believed the love which God has to us. God is love, and he that abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

Hereby we have known love, because he has laid down his life for us; and we ought for the brethren to lay down our lives.

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

No one has greater love than this, that one should lay down his life for his friends.

and walk in love, even as the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity,

and hope does not make ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given to us:

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

who has also manifested to us your love in the Spirit.

Jehovah hath appeared from afar unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love; therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn thee.

Thou by thy mercy hast led forth the people that thou hast redeemed; Thou hast guided them by thy strength unto the abode of thy holiness.

And Jehovah passed by before his face, and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in goodness and truth,

Jehovah Elohim, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember mercies to David thy servant.

Return, Jehovah, free my soul; save me for thy loving-kindness' sake.

Many sorrows hath the wicked; but he that confideth in Jehovah, loving-kindness shall encompass him.

{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David; when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba.} Be gracious unto me, O God, according to thy loving-kindness; according to the abundance of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

Whoso is wise, let him observe these things, and let them understand the loving-kindnesses of Jehovah.

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

I will record the loving-kindnesses of Jehovah, the praises of Jehovah, according to all that Jehovah hath bestowed upon us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel which he hath bestowed upon them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses.

It is of Jehovah's loving-kindness we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not;

And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; and I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in loving-kindness, and in mercies;

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

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

If ye shall keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love, 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, because of his great love wherewith he loved us,

for whom the Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.

See what love the Father has given to us, that we should be called the children of God. For this reason the world knows us not, because it knew him not.

But 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 thine understanding; and thy neighbour as thyself.

He that has my commandments and keeps them, he it is that loves me; but he that loves me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will manifest myself to him.

When therefore they had dined, Jesus says to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He says to him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I am attached to thee. He says to him, Feed my lambs.

But we do know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to purpose.

remembering unceasingly your work of faith, and labour of love, and enduring constancy of hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for, having been proved, he shall receive the crown of life, which He has promised to them that love him.

whom, having not seen, ye love; on whom though not now looking, but believing, ye exult with joy unspeakable and filled with the glory,

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

By this shall all know that ye are disciples of mine, if ye have love amongst yourselves.

Owe no one anything, unless to love one another: for he that loves another has fulfilled the law.

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

I do not speak as commanding it, but through the zeal of others, and proving the genuineness of your love.

For ye have been called to liberty, brethren; only do not turn liberty into an opportunity to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing with one another in love;

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

to the end that their hearts may be encouraged, being united together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the full knowledge of the mystery of God;

receiving the reward of unrighteousness; accounting ephemeral indulgence pleasure; spots and blemishes, rioting in their own deceits, feasting with you;

Woe unto you, Pharisees, for ye love the first seat in the synagogues and salutations in the market-places.

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

for they loved glory from men rather than glory from God.

for Demas has forsaken me, having loved the present age, and is gone to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

having left the straight way they have gone astray, having followed in the path of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the reward of unrighteousness;

Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any one love the world, the love of the Father is not in him;

Love has long patience, is kind; love is not emulous of others; love is not insolent and rash, is not puffed up, does not behave in an unseemly manner, does not seek what is its own, is not quickly provoked, does not impute evil, does not rejoice at iniquity but rejoices with the truth,read more.
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails; but whether prophecies, they shall be done away; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall be done away.

Let love be unfeigned; abhorring evil; cleaving to good:

But the end of what is enjoined is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and unfeigned faith;

Having purified your souls by obedience to the truth to unfeigned brotherly love, love one another out of a pure heart fervently;

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has torment, and he that fears has not been made perfect in love.

But whoso may have the world's substance, and see his brother having need, and shut up his bowels from him, how abides the love of God in him? Children, let us not love with word, nor with tongue, but in deed and in truth.

If ye love me, keep my commandments.

but God commends his love to us, in that, we being still sinners, Christ has died for us.

For if on account of meat thy brother is grieved, thou walkest no longer according to love. Destroy not him with thy meat for whom Christ has died.

I am crucified with Christ, and no longer live, I, but Christ lives in me; but in that I now live in flesh, I live by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who has loved me and given himself for me.

Herein as to us has been manifested the love of God, that God has sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

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

And now abide faith, hope, love; these three things; and the greater of these is love.

And he said to him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy understanding. This is the great and first commandment. And the second is like it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

And Jesus answered him, The first commandment of all is, Hear, Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord; and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding, and with all thy strength. This is the first commandment. And a second like it is this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is not another commandment greater than these.

For, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not lust; and if there be any other commandment, it is summed up in this word, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love works no ill to its neighbour; love therefore is the whole law.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision has any force, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.

that the Christ may dwell, through faith, in your hearts, being rooted and founded in love, in order that ye may be fully able to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height; and to know the love of the Christ which surpasses knowledge; that ye may be filled even to all the fulness of God.

And to all these add love, which is the bond of perfectness.

in godliness brotherly love, in brotherly love love:

He that loves his brother abides in light, and there is no occasion of stumbling in him.