76 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 person who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

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

For God did not give us a Spirit of fear but of power and love and self-control.

And we have come to know and to believe 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 Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.

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

No one has greater love than this -- that one lays down his life for his friends.

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

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 urge you, brothers and sisters, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to join fervently with me in prayer to God on my behalf.

who also told us of your love in the Spirit.

In a far-off land the Lord will manifest himself to them. He will say to them, 'I have loved you with an everlasting love. That is why I have continued to be faithful to you.

By your loyal love you will lead the people whom you have redeemed; you will guide them by your strength to your holy dwelling place.

The Lord passed by before him and proclaimed: "The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, and abounding in loyal love and faithfulness,

O Lord God, do not reject your chosen ones! Remember the faithful promises you made to your servant David!"

Relent, Lord, rescue me! Deliver me because of your faithfulness!

An evil person suffers much pain, but the Lord's faithfulness overwhelms the one who trusts in him.

For the music director; a psalm of David, written when Nathan the prophet confronted him after David's affair with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, because of your loyal love! Because of your great compassion, wipe away my rebellious acts!

Whoever is wise, let him take note of these things! Let them consider the Lord's acts of loyal love!

Even if the mountains are removed and the hills displaced, my devotion will not be removed from you, nor will my covenant of friendship be displaced," says the Lord, the one who has compassion on you.

I will tell of the faithful acts of the Lord, of the Lord's praiseworthy deeds. I will tell about all the Lord did for us, the many good things he did for the family of Israel, because of his compassion and great faithfulness.

(Khet) The Lord's loyal kindness never ceases; his compassions never end.

I will commit myself to you forever; I will commit myself to you in righteousness and justice, in steadfast love and tender compassion.

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

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

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

nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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

"For the Lord disciplines the one he loves and chastises every son he accepts."

(See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God's children -- and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

The expert answered, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and love your neighbor as yourself."

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

Then when they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these do?" He replied, "Yes, Lord, you know I love you." Jesus told him, "Feed my lambs."

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

because we recall in the presence of our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and endurance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Happy is the one who endures testing, because when he has proven to be genuine, he will receive the crown of life that God promised to those who love him.

You have not seen him, but you love him. You do not see him now but you believe in him, and so you rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy,

For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments do not weigh us down,

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

Owe no one anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

My love be with all of you in Christ Jesus.

I am not saying this as a command, but I am testing the genuineness of your love by comparison with the eagerness of others.

For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity to indulge your flesh, but through love serve one another.

with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

And I pray this, that your love may abound even more and more in knowledge and every kind of insight

My goal is that their hearts, having been knit together in love, may be encouraged, and that they may have all the riches that assurance brings in their understanding of the knowledge of the mystery of God, namely, Christ,

suffering harm as the wages for their harmful ways. By considering it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight, they are stains and blemishes, indulging in their deceitful pleasures when they feast together with you.

Woe to you Pharisees! You love the best seats in the synagogues and elaborate greetings in the marketplaces!

Now this is the basis for judging: 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 praise from men more than praise from God.

For Demas deserted me, since he loved the present age, and he went to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia and Titus to Dalmatia.

By forsaking the right path they have gone astray, because they followed the way of Balaam 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, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up. It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful. It is not glad about injustice, but rejoices in the truth.read more.
It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. But if there are prophecies, they will be set aside; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be set aside.

Love must be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil, cling to what is good.

But the aim of our instruction is love that comes from a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith.

You have purified your souls by obeying the truth in order to show sincere mutual love. So love one another earnestly from a pure heart.

There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears punishment has not been perfected in love.

But whoever has the world's possessions and sees his fellow Christian in need and shuts off his compassion against him, how can the love of God reside in such a person? Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth.

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

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

For if your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy by your food someone for whom Christ died.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

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

By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments. For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments do not weigh us down,

And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Jesus said to him, "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. The second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'

Jesus answered, "The most important is: 'Listen, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.' The second is: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."

For the commandments, "Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not covet," (and if there is any other commandment) are summed up in this, "Love your neighbor as yourself." Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision carries any weight -- the only thing that matters is faith working through love.

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, so that, because you have been rooted and grounded in love, you may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and thus to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

And to all these virtues add love, which is the perfect bond.

to godliness, brotherly affection; to brotherly affection, unselfish love.

The one who loves his fellow Christian resides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.