64 Bible Verses about Love, Nature Of

Beloved, let us love one another; because love is from God, and every one who loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not, never knew God; for God is love.

And the Lord cause you to abound and overflow with love one to another, and towards all men, as we also do to you:

For God hath not given us a spirit of fear; but of courage, and of love, and of sobriety.

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

By this we have known the love [of Christ], because for us he laid down his own life: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

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

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

and walk in love as Christ also hath loved us, and given himself for us, an oblation and sacrifice to God, for an odour of a sweet smell.

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

and hope doth not make us ashamed; because the love of God is poured out into our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given to us.

Now I exhort you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that you wrestle earnestly with me in prayers for me unto God;

who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.

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

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

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

nor exaltation, nor deepest depression, 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 Ghost be with you all. Amen.

But God, being rich in mercy, through the great love with which he hath loved us,

for whom the Lord loveth he correcteth, 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! therefore 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 might, and with all thy understanding, and thy neighbour as thyself."

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

When therefore they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith to him, Yes, Lord! thou knowest that I love thee. He saith to him, Feed my lambs.

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

without ceasing calling to mind your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

Blessed is the man who patiently supports temptation: for when he is proved, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to those who love him.

whom though ye have not seen, ye love; on whom, though ye have not as yet gazed, yet believing, ye exult with joy unutterable and glorious:

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

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

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

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

I speak not by commandment, but because of the forwardness of others, and to prove the genuineness of your love.

For ye have been called unto liberty, brethren; only use not that liberty as a pretext for carnality, but in love be subject one to another.

with all humility and meekness, with long suffering, forbearing one another in love;

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

that their hearts may be comforted, firmly united together in love, and unto all riches of full assurance of understanding, in the knowledge of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;

receiving the recompence of iniquity, counting daily luxury their pleasure; spots and blemishes, when they feast together with you; riotously indulging in their own delusions:

Wo unto you, Pharisees, for ye love the first seats in the synagogues, and salutations in the places of public concourse.

Now this is the condemnation, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.

for they loved honour from men, more than honour from God.

for Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is gone unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; Titus to Dalmatia.

who forsaking the strait road are gone out of the way, following the path of Balaam the son of Bosor who loved the wages of iniquity.

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

Love is long-suffering, is kind; love envieth not; love is no vain boaster, is not inflated [with pride], doth not act unseemly, seeketh not her own advantage, is not passionate, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth in the truth;read more.
beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Love never faileth: but if there be prophetic gifts, they shall be no more; if tongues, they shall cease; if science, it shall vanish away.

Let love be undissembled. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

For the end of the commandment is love out of a clean heart, and good conscience, and faith unfeigned:

Having purified your souls by obedience to the truth through the Spirit unto fraternal affection undissembled, love each other intensely out of a pure heart:

Fear is not in this love; but the perfect love casteth out fear: for fear hath anguish. He that is afraid is not made perfect in love.

But whosoever hath worldly abundance, and seeth his brother under necessity, and shutteth his bowels of compassion against him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? My dear children, let us not love in word and in tongue, but in deed and in truth;

If ye love me, keep my commandments.

But God commendeth his own love towards us, that, though we were yet sinners, Christ died in our stead.

But if by meat thy brother is grieved, thou walkest no more according to love. Do not by thy meat destroy him for whom Christ died.

I am crucified with Christ, yet I live; though no more I, but Christ liveth in me: and my present life in the flesh, is a life by faith in the Son of God, who hath loved me, and delivered up himself for me.

By this was the love of God manifested to us, that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might have life by him.

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

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greater of these is love.

Then Jesus said to 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 first and great commandment. And the second is like to it, "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."

Then Jesus replied to him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear O Israel; the Lord thy God is one Lord: 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. This is the first commandment. And the second, like it, is this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: there is no greater commandment than these.

For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is comprised in this word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love doeth no ill to a neighbour; the fulfilment therefore of the law is love.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but faith exerting its energy by love.

that Christ may dwell by faith in your hearts; that rooted and grounded in love, ye may be strengthened to comprehend with all saints, what is the breadth and length, and height and depth; and to know the love of Christ, transcendently surpassing knowledge, that ye may be filled with all the fulness of God.

But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.

and with piety fraternal affection; and with fraternal affection love.

He that loveth his brother is in the light, and occasion of stumbling in him there is none.