75 Bible Verses about Love, Nature Of

Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

and [may] the Lord [cause] you to increase and to abound in love for one another and for all, just as also we [do] for you,

For God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power and love and self-discipline.

And we have come to know and have believed the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.

We have come to know love by this: that {he} laid down his life on behalf of us, and we ought to lay down our lives on behalf of the brothers.

In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son [to be the] propitiation for our sins.

No one has greater love than this: that someone lay down his life for his friends.

and live in love, just as also Christ loved us, and gave himself for us an offering and sacrifice to God for a fragrant smell.

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

and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Now I exhort you, brothers, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to contend along with me in your prayers on my behalf to God,

[who] also made clear to us your love in the Spirit.

From afar Yahweh appeared to me, [saying], "I have loved you [with] an everlasting love. {Therefore} I have drawn you [with] loyal love.

In your loyal love you led [the] people whom you redeemed; in your strength you guided [them] to the abode of your holiness.

And Yahweh passed over before him, and he proclaimed, "Yahweh, Yahweh, God, [who is] compassionate and gracious, {slow to anger}, and abounding with loyal love and faithfulness,

O Yahweh God, do not turn away the face of your anointed one! Remember the loyal love of your servant, David!"

Turn, O Yahweh; deliver my life. Save me for the sake of your steadfast love.

Many are [the] pains of the wicked, but [for] the one who trusts Yahweh loyal love surrounds him.

Be gracious to me, O God, according to your loyal love. According to your abundant mercies, blot out my transgressions.

Whoever [is] wise, then let him observe these [things], and let them consider Yahweh's acts of loyal love.

For the mountains may depart, and the hills may sway, but my faithfulness shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not sway," says Yahweh, who has compassion on you,

I will mention the loyal love of Yahweh, the praises of Yahweh, according to all that Yahweh has done for us, and [the] greatness of goodness to the house of Israel that he has done to them according to his mercy and the abundance of his loyal love.

The loyal love of Yahweh does not cease; his compassions do not come to an end.

And I will take you as my wife forever; I will take you as a wife for myself in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.

For in this way God loved the world, so that he gave his one and only Son, in order that everyone who believes in him will not perish, but will have eternal life.

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

If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and remain in his love.

nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love [with] which he loved us,

For the Lord disciplines the one whom he loves, and punishes every son whom he accepts."

See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called children of God, and we are! Because of this the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

And he answered [and] said, "You shall love the Lord your God from all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself."

The one who has my commandments and keeps them--that one is the one who loves me. And the one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him."

Now when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon [son] of John, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs!"

And we know that all [things] work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to [his] purpose,

[because we] remember your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father,

Blessed [is] the person who endures testing, because [when he] is approved he will receive the crown of life that he has promised to those who love him.

whom, [although you] have not seen, you love; in whom now you believe, [although you] do not see [him], and you rejoice greatly with joy inexpressible and full of glory,

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

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples--if you have love for one another."

Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another, for the one who loves someone else has fulfilled the law.

My love [be] with all of you in Christ Jesus.

I am not saying [this] as a command, but proving the genuineness of your love by means of the diligence of others.

For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not let your freedom [become] an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

with all humility and gentleness, with patience, putting up with one another in love,

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

so that their hearts may be encouraged, united in love and into all the wealth of the full assurance of insight into the knowledge of the mystery of God, Christ,

being harmed [as the] wages of unrighteousness. Considering reveling in the daytime a pleasure, [they are] stains and blemishes, carousing in their deceitful pleasures [when they] feast together with you,

Woe to you, Pharisees, because you love the best seat in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces!

And this is the judgment: that the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.

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

For Demas deserted me, [because he] loved the present age, and went to Thessalonica. Crescens [went] to Galatia; Titus [went] to Dalmatia.

[By] leaving the straight path, they have gone astray, [because they] followed the way of Balaam the [son of] Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

Love is patient, love is kind, love is not jealous, [it] does not boast, [it] does not become conceited, [it] does not behave dishonorably, [it] {is not selfish}, [it] does not become angry, [it] does not keep a record of wrongs, [it] does not rejoice at unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth,read more.
bears all [things], believes all [things], hopes all [things], endures all [things]. Love never ends. But if [there are] prophecies, they will pass away. If [there are] tongues, they will cease. If [there is] knowledge, it will pass away.

Love must be without hypocrisy. Abhor what [is] evil; be attached to what [is] good,

But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a faith without hypocrisy,

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for sincere brotherly love, love one another fervently from the heart,

[There] is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear includes punishment, and the one who is afraid has not been perfected in love.

But whoever has the world's material possessions and observes his brother {in need} and shuts his heart against him, how does the love of God reside in him? Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.

"If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

but God demonstrates his own love for us, [in] that [while] we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

For if because of food, your brother is grieved, you are no longer living according to love. Do not destroy by your food that person for whom Christ died.

and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me, and that [life] I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God sent his one and only Son into the world in order that we may live through him.

By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever 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 these three [things] remain: faith, hope, [and] love. But the greatest of these [is] love.

And he said to 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 greatest and first commandment. And the second [is] like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'

Jesus answered, "The most important is, 'Listen, Israel! The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God from your whole heart and from your whole soul and from your whole mind and from your whole strength.' The second [is] this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."

For the [commandments], "You shall not commit adultery, you shall not commit murder, you shall not steal, you shall not covet," and if [there is] any other commandment, are summed up in this statement: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." Love does not commit evil against a neighbor. Therefore love [is the] fulfillment of the law.

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

[that] Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith (you having been firmly rooted and established in love), in order that you may be strong enough to grasp together with all the saints what [is] the breadth, and length, and height, and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, in order that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

And to all these [things] [add] love, which is [the] bond of perfection.

and with godliness, brotherly love, and with brotherly love, love.

The one who loves his brother resides in the light, and [there] is no cause for stumbling in him.