76 Bible Verses about Love, Nature Of

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and everyone that loves is born of God, and knows God. He that loves not knows 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 do toward you:

For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love; and he that dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him.

By this perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

In this 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 has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us, and has given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling fragrance.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

And hope makes not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who is given unto us.

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

Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.

The LORD has appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn you.

You in your mercy have led forth the people whom you have redeemed: you have guided them in your strength unto your holy habitation.

And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,

O LORD God, turn not away the face of your anointed: remember the mercies of David your servant.

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

Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusts in the LORD, mercy shall surround him.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.] Have mercy upon me, O God, according to your lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of your tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

Whoever is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.

For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, says the LORD that has mercy on you.

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

It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

And I will betroth you unto me forever; yea, I will betroth you 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 believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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

If you keep my commandments, you 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 creation, 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 fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen.

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

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

Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the children of God: therefore the world knows us not, because it knew him not.

And he answering said, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.

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, do you love me more than these? He said unto him, Yea, Lord; you know that I love you. He said unto him, Feed my lambs.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the 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, in the sight of God and our Father;

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

Whom having not seen, you love; in whom, though now you see him not, yet believing, you rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:

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

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

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

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

I speak not by commandment, but to prove by the earnestness of others, the sincerity of your love.

For, brethren, you have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one 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 in all judgment;

That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;

And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. Spots they are and blemishes, reveling themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;

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

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

For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

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

Who have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following 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 any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Love suffers long, and is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up, Does not behave itself rudely, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, keeps no record of evil; Rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;read more.
Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

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

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

Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto sincere love of the brethren, see that you love one another with a pure heart fervently:

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear: because fear has to do with punishment. He that fears is not made perfect in love.

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

If you love me, keep my commandments.

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

But if your brother is grieved with your food, you no longer walk in love. Destroy not him with your 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 manifested the love of God toward us, because God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

By this 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 keep his commandments: and his commandments are not burdensome.

And now abides faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Jesus said unto him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these.

For this, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, You shall not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is summed up in this saying, namely, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Love works no ill to his neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

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

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

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

And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness love.

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