76 Bible Verses about Love, Nature Of

Beloved, let us love one another, for charity is of God. Anyone that loves is born of God and knows God. He that does not love does not know God, for God is charity.

And the Lord make you to multiply and make charity to abound among you and toward all men, even as it is with us toward you,

For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of strength and of love and of temperance.

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

In this we have known the charity of God because he laid down his life for us; we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

In this does the charity consist, not because we had loved God, but because he loved us and has sent his Son to be the reconciliation for our sins.

Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his soul for his friends.

and walk in charity even as the Christ also has loved us and has given himself for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour.

But the fruit of the Spirit is this: Charity, joy, peace, tolerance, gentleness, goodness, faith,

and the hope shall not be ashamed, because the love of God is poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which is given unto us.

But I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the charity of the Spirit, that ye help me with prayers to God for me,

who also declared unto us your charity in the Spirit.

The LORD has appeared of old unto me, saying, I have loved thee with an eternal love: therefore, I have put up with thee with mercy.

Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed; thou hast guided them in thy strength unto the habitation of thy holiness.

And as the LORD passed by before him, he proclaimed, I AM, I AM strong, merciful, and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in mercy and truth,

O LORD God, do not turn away the face of thy anointed one; remember the mercies of David, thy slave.

Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake.

There are many sorrows for the wicked; but he that waits in the LORD, mercy shall compass him round about.

Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy mercy; according unto the multitude of thy compassion eradicate my rebellion.

Who is wise and will observe these things and shall understand the mercies of the LORD?

For the mountains shall be removed, and the hills shall tremble; but my mercy shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be changed, said the LORD that has mercy on thee.

I will mention the mercies of the LORD and the praises of the LORD according to all that the LORD has bestowed on us and the greatness of his goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has bestowed on them according to his mercies and according to the multitude of his mercies.

Chet It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed because his mercies never diminish.

And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness and in judgment and in mercy.

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

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 abide in his love.

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

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

But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great charity with which he loved us,

for whom the Lord loves, he chastens and scourges everyone whom he receives as a son.

Behold, what charity the Father has given us, that we should be called the sons of God; therefore the world does not know us, because it does not know him.

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 understanding, and thy neighbour as thyself.

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

So when they had dined, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He said unto him, Yes, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He said unto him, Feed my lambs.

And we now know that unto those who love God, all things help them unto good, to those who according to the purpose are called to be saints.

remembering without ceasing the work of your faith and labour and charity and of waiting with the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of our God and Father,

Blessed is the man that patiently endures temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to those that love him.

whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though at present ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory;

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

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

Owe no one anything, but love one unto another; for he that loves his neighbour has fulfilled the law.

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

I speak not as commanding, but by occasion of the diligence of others and to prove the sincerity of your charity.

For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only do not use liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by charity serve one another.

with all humility and meekness, with tolerance, forbearing one another in love,

And this I pray that your charity may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all perception,

that their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in charity and in all the riches of the fulfilled understanding to know the mystery of the God and Father and of the Christ;

receiving the reward of their unrighteousness, as those that count it pleasure to live luxuriously every day. These are spots and blemishes, who eat together with you, while at the same time they revel in their deceit,

Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the first seats in the synagogues and greetings in the markets.

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

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

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

who forsaking the right way have erred, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,

Love not the world neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the charity of the Father is not in him.

Charity suffers long and is benign; charity envies not; charity does nothing without due reason, is not puffed up, is not injurious, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil, rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;read more.
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Charity is never lost, but prophecies shall come to an end, tongues shall cease, and knowledge shall come to an end.

Let love be without dissimulation, abhorring that which is evil, causing you to come unto that which is good;

Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart and of a good conscience and of faith unfeigned:

Having purified your souls in the obedience of the truth, by the Spirit, in unfeigned brotherly love, love one another with a pure heart fervently,

In charity there is no fear; but charity that is perfect casts out fear; because fear has torment; from which he that fears is not complete in charity.

But whosoever has this world's goods and sees his brother have need and shuts up his bowels of compassion from him, how does the charity of God abide in him? My little children, let us not love in word neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

If ye love me, keep my commandments;

But God increased the price of his charity toward us in that while we were yet sinners the Christ died for us.

But if thy brother is grieved because of thy food, now thou dost not walk in charity. Do not destroy him with thy food, for whom Christ died.

I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

In this was the charity of God demonstrated in us, in that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

In this we know that we love the sons of God, when we love God and keep his commandments. For this is the charity of God, that we keep his commandments, and his commandments are not grievous.

And now abide faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

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

And Jesus responded unto him, The principal of all the commandments 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 thought and with all thy strength: this is the principal commandment. And the second is like it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is no other commandment greater than these.

For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not murder, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet, and if there is any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Charity works no evil to a neighbour; therefore, charity is the fulfillment of the law.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails anything nor uncircumcision, but faith which works by charity.

that the Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith, that ye, being rooted and grounded in charity, may be able to well comprehend with all saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height and to know the charity of the Christ, which passes all knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.

And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfection.

and in fear of God, brotherly love; and in brotherly love, charity.

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