63 Bible Verses about Love, Nature Of

Beloved, let us love one another, for love belongs to God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God; he who does not love, does not know God, for God is love.

And may the Lord make you increase and excel in love to one another and to all men (as is my love for you),

for God has not given us a timid spirit but a spirit of power and love and discipline.

well, we do know, we have believed, the love God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

We know what love is by this, that He laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for the brotherhood.

Love lies in this, not in our love for him but in his love for us ??in the sending of his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

To lay life down for his friends, man has no greater love than that.

and lead lives of love, just as Christ loved you and gave himself up for you to be a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

But the harvest of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, good temper, kindliness, generosity, fidelity,

Brothers, I beg of you, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love that the Spirit inspires, rally round me by praying to God for me;

and it is he who has informed us of your love in the Spirit.

For God loved the world so dearly that he gave up his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life, instead of perishing.

but I know there is no love to God in you;

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

no powers of the Height or of the Depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to part us from God's love 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.

But, dead in trespasses as we were, God was so rich in mercy that for his great love to us

for the Lord disciplines the man he loves, and scourges every son he receives.

'Born of him!' Think what a love the Father has for us, in letting us be called 'children of God!' That is what we are. The world does not recognize us? That is simply because it did not recognize him.

He replied, "You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, with your whole strength, and with your whole mind. Also your neighbour as yourself."

He who possesses my commands and obeys them is he who loves me, and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and appear to him."

Then after breakfast Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than the others do?" "Why, Lord," he said, "you know I love you." "Then feed my lambs," said Jesus.

We know also that those who love God, those who have been called in terms of his purpose, have his aid and interest in everything.

as we recall your active faith and labour of love and patient hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

Blessed is he who endures under trial; for when he has stood the test, he will gain the crown of life which is promised to all who love Him.

You never knew him, but you love him; for the moment you do not see him, but you believe in him, and you will thrill with an unspeakable and glorious joy

(for love to God means keeping his commands). And his commands are not irksome,

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

Be in debt to no man ??apart from the debt of love one to another. He who loves his fellow-man has fulfilled the law.

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

I am not issuing any orders, only using the zeal of others to prove how sterling your own love is.

Brothers, you were called to be free; only, do not make your freedom an opening for the flesh, but serve one another in love.

with perfect modesty and gentleness, showing forbearance to one another patiently, zealous in love

And it is my prayer that your love may be more and more rich in knowledge and all manner of insight, enabling you to have a sense of what is vital,

May their hearts be encouraged! May they learn the meaning of love! May they have all the wealth of conviction that comes from insight! May they learn to know that open secret of God, the Father of Christ,

done out of the profits of their evil-doing. Pleasure for them is revelling in open daylight ??spots and blots, with their dissipated revelling, as they carouse in your midst! ??14 their eyes are full of harlotry, insatiable for sin; their own hearts trained to lust, they beguile unsteady souls. Accursed generation!

Woe to you Pharisees! you love the front bench in the synagogues and salutations in the marketplaces.

And this is the sentence of condemnation, that the Light has entered the world and yet men have preferred darkness to light. It is because their actions have been evil;

are relocated after vs 50] With these words Jesus went away and hid from them.

for Demas, in his love for this world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens is off to Gaul, Titus to Dalmatia,

they have gone wrong by leaving the straight road, by following the road of Balaam son of Bosor, who liked the profits of evil-doing ??16 but he got reproved for his malpractice: a dumb ass spoke with human voice and checked the prophet's infatuation.

Love not the world, nor yet what is in the world; if anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.

Love is very patient, very kind. Love knows no jealousy; love makes no parade, gives itself no airs, is never rude, never selfish, never irritated, never resentful; love is never glad when others go wrong, love is gladdened by goodness,read more.
always slow to expose, always eager to believe the best, always hopeful, always patient. Love never disappears. As for prophesying, it will be superseded; as for 'tongues,' they will cease; as for knowledge, it will be superseded.

Let your love be a real thing, with a loathing for evil and a bent for what is good.

Whereas the aim of the Christian discipline is the love that springs from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from a sincere faith.

Now that your obedience to the Truth has purified your souls for a brotherly love that is sincere, love one another heartily and steadily.

Love has no dread in it; no, love in its fulness drives all dread away, for dread has to do with punishment ??anyone who has dread, has not reached the fulness of love.

But whoever possesses this world's goods, and notices his brother in need, and shuts his heart against him, how can love to God remain in him? My dear children, let us put our love not into words or into talk but into deeds, and make it real.

If you love me you will keep my commands,

But God proves his love for us by this, that Christ died for us when we were still sinners.

If your brother is being injured because you eat a certain food, then you are no longer living by the rule of love. Do not let that food of yours ruin the man for whom Christ died.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, Christ lives in me; the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.

This is how the love of God has appeared for us, by God sending his only Son into the world, so that by him we might live.

This is how we are sure that we love God's children, by loving God and obeying his commands (for love to God means keeping his commands). And his commands are not irksome,

Thus 'faith and hope and love last on, these three,' but the greatest of all is love.

He replied, "You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, and with your whole mind. This is the greatest and chief command. There is a second like it: you must love your neighbour as yourself.

Jesus replied, "The chief one is: Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord, and you must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, with your whole mind, and with your whole strength. The second is this: You must love your neighbour as yourself. There is no other command greater than these."

You must not commit adultery, you must not kill, you must not steal, you must not covet ??these and any other command are summed up in a single word, You must love your neighbour as yourself. Love never wrongs a neighbour; that is why love is the fulfilment of the law.

in Christ Jesus circumcision is not valid, neither is uncircumcision, but only faith active in love.

May Christ dwell in your hearts as you have faith! May you be so fixed and founded in love that you can grasp with all the saints what is the meaning of 'the Breadth,' 'the Length,' 'the Depth' and 'the Height,' by knowing the love of Christ which surpasses all knowledge! May you be filled with the entire fulness of God!

And above all you must be loving, for love is the link of the perfect life.

piety with brotherliness, brotherliness with Christian love.

He who loves his brother remains in the light ??and in the light there is no pitfall;