76 Bible Verses about Love, Nature Of

Dearly beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God. And all that love are born of God, and knoweth God. And he that loveth not, knoweth not God: for God is love.

and the Lord increase you, and make you flow over in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you,

For God hath not given to us the spirit of fear: but of power, and of love, and of soberness of mind.

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

Hereby are we assured of love: because he left his life for us: And therefore we ought also to give our lives for our brethren.

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his son to make a satisfaction for our sins.

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

and walk in love even as Christ loved us, and gave himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice of a sweet savour to God.

But the fruit of the spirit is: love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, temperance.

and hope maketh not ashamed: for the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts, by the holy ghost, which is given unto us.

I beseech you brethren for our Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the spirit, that ye help me in my business, with your prayers to God for me,

which also declared unto us your love, which ye have in the spirit.

Even so shall the LORD now also appear unto me from far, and say, 'I love thee with an everlasting love, therefore do I spread my mercy before thee.'

And thou carriedest with thy mercy this people which thou deliveredest, and broughtest them with thy strength unto thy holy habitation!

And when the LORD walked before him, he cried, "LORD, LORD God full of compassion and mercy, which art not lightly angry but abundant in mercy and truth,

And LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed; But remember the mercies promised to David thy servant."

Turn thee, O LORD, and deliver my soul; O save me for thy mercies' sake.

Great plagues remain for the ungodly; but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD, mercy embraceth him on every side.

{To the chanter, a Psalm of David, when the Prophet Nathan came unto him, after he was gone in to Bathsheba} Have mercy upon me, O God, after thy great goodness; according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences.

Whoso is wise, and pondereth these things well, shall understand the loving-kindness of the LORD.

The mountains shall remove, and the hills shall fall down: but my loving-kindness shall not move, and the bond of my peace shall not fall down from thee, sayeth the LORD thy merciful lover.

I will declare the goodness of the LORD, yea and the praise of the LORD, for all that he hath given us; for the great good that he hath done for Israel, which he hath given them of his own favour, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

{Khet} Namely, that the mercies of the LORD are not clean gone, and that his loving-kindness ceaseth not.

Thus will I marry thee unto mine own self forevermore: yea even to myself will I marry thee, in righteousness, in equity, in loving-kindness, and mercy.

For God so loveth the world, that he hath given his only son, for the intent that none that believe in him should perish: But should have everlasting life.

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

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

neither height, neither lowth, neither any other creature shall be able to depart us from the love of God, showed in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the holy ghost, be with you all. Amen. {The end of the Second Epistle unto the Corinthians, Sent from Philippi, a city in Macedonia, by Titus and Luke}

But God, which is rich in mercy through his great love wherewith he loved us,

For whom the Lord loveth, him he chasteneth: yea, and he scourgeth every son that he receiveth."

Behold what love the father hath showed on us, that we should be called the sons of God. For this cause the world knoweth you not; because it knoweth not him.

And he answered and said, "Thou shalt love thy Lord God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind: and thy neighbor as thyself."

He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, the same is he that loveth me: and he shall be loved of my father, and I will love him, and will show mine own self unto him."

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

For we know well that all things work for the best unto them that love God, which also are called of purpose.

without ceasing, and call to remembrance your work in the faith, and labour in love and perseverance in the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God our father:

Happy is the man that endureth in temptation, for when he is tried he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

whom ye have not seen and yet love him, in whom even now, though ye see him not, yet ye believe, and rejoice with joy unspeakable and glorious:

This is the love of God, that we keep his commandments, and his commandments are not grievous.

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

Owe nothing to any man: but to love one another. For he that loveth another, fulfilleth the law.

My love be with you all in Christ Jesus, Amen. {The end of the First Epistle unto the Corinthians, Sent from Philippi, by Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus, and Timothy.}

This say I not as commanding: but because others are so fervent, therefore prove I your love, whether it be perfect or no.

Brethren, ye were called into liberty, only let not your liberty be an occasion unto the flesh but in love serve one another.

in all humbleness of mind, and meekness, and long suffering, forbearing one another through love,

And this I pray, that your love may increase more and more in knowledge, and in all feeling,

that their hearts might be comforted and knit together in love, and in all riches of full understanding, for to know the mystery of God the father and of Christ:

and receive the reward of unrighteousness. They count it pleasure to live deliciously for a season. Spots they are, and filthiness, living at pleasure, and in deceitful ways feasting with you:

Woe be to you Pharisees: for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets.

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

For they loved the praise that is given of men, more than the praise that cometh of God.

For Demas hath left me, and hath loved this present world, and is departed into Thessalonica. Crescens is gone to Galatia, and Titus unto Dalmatia.

and have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, which loved the reward of unrighteousness:

See that ye love not the world, nor the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the father is not in him.

Love suffereth long, and is courteous. Love envieth not. Love doth not forwardly, swelleth not, dealeth not dishonestly, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh not evil, rejoiceth not in iniquity: but rejoiceth in the truth,read more.
suffereth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth in all things. Though that prophesying fail, or tongues shall cease, or knowledge vanish away: yet love falleth never away.

Let love be without dissimulation. Hate that which is evil, and cleave unto that which is good.

For the end of the commandment is love that cometh of a pure heart and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:

And forasmuch as ye have purified your souls through the spirit, in obeying the truth for to love brotherly without feigning, see that ye love one another with a pure heart, fervently:

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casteth out all fear, for fear hath painfulness. He therefore that feareth is not perfect in love.

He, then, that hath the substance of the world, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his compassion from him: how dwelleth the love of God in him? My little children, let us not love in word, nor with the tongue: but with the deed, and of a truth:

"If ye love me, keep my commandments,

But God setteth out his love that he hath to us; Seeing that while we were yet sinners; Christ died for us.

If thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.

I am crucified with Christ. I live verily, yet now not I, but Christ liveth in me. For the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the son of God, which loved me, and gave himself for me.

Herein appeared the love of God to us ward, because that God sent his only begotten son into the world, that we should live through him.

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

Now abideth faith, hope, and love, even these three: but the chief of these is love.

Jesus said unto him, "'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.' This is the first and that chief commandment. And there is another like unto this: 'Thou shalt love thine neighbor as thyself.'

Jesus answered him, "The first of all the commandments is, 'Hear, Israel, the Lord 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 is like unto this, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbor, as thyself.' There is none other commandment greater than these."

For these commandments: Thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness, thou shalt not desire, and so forth: if there be any other commandment, they are all comprehended in this saying, "Love thine neighbor as thyself." Love hurteth not his neighbor: Therefore is love the fulfilling of the law.

For in Jesus Christ, neither is circumcision anything worth, neither yet uncircumcision: but faith, which by love is mighty in operation.

that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, might be able to comprehend with all saints, what is that breadth and length, depth and height: and to know what is the love of Christ, which love passeth knowledge: that ye might be fulfilled with all manner of fullness which cometh of God.

Above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness,

in godliness, brotherly kindness; in brotherly kindness, love.

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