76 Bible Verses about Love, Nature Of

Beloved let us love one another, for love is from God. 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 abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you.

God has not given us a spirit of timidity (fear), but of power and love and discipline.

We know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love! He who continues with love lives with God and God lives with him.

By this we know love, because he (Jesus) gave his life for us. We ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation (atonement) (sacrificial payment) for our sins.

No man has greater love then this that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us. He was an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling odor.

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

Hope does not disappoint because the love of God has been shed abroad in our hearts. It comes through Holy Spirit, which is God's gift to us.

Now I beg you, brothers, 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.

He also declared your love to us in the Spirit.

Jehovah appeared to him from afar, saying: I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore I have drawn you with loving-kindness.

Using your powerful love, you rescued (redeemed) the people.

Jehovah then passed in front of him and called out: I, Jehovah, am a God who is full of compassion and pity. I am not easily angered and show great love and faithfulness.

O Jehovah our God, do not reject your anointed one. Remember your mercy to your servant David!

Return, O Jehovah, and deliver me. Save me because of your unfailing love.

Very much pain awaits wicked people, but loving-kindness and mercy surrounds those who trust Jehovah.

([[Psalm of David] when the prophet Nathan came to him after David's adultery with Bathsheba:]) Have mercy on me, O God, in keeping with your loving-kindness. According to your unlimited compassion, wipe out my transgressions.

Let those who think they are wise pay attention to these things so they will understand the loving kindness of Jehovah.

Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed, says Jehovah. I have compassion on you.

I will acknowledge Jehovah's acts of loving-kindness, and sing the praises of Jehovah, because of everything that Jehovah has done for us. He has done many good things for the nation of Israel because of his compassion and the abundance of his loving-kindness.

We have not come to destruction because of Jehovah's loving kindness. His mercies are without end.

I will engage you to me for a very long time! Yes I will engage you to me in righteousness, and in justice, and in loving kindness, and in mercies.

For God loved the world so much, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever has an active faith in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

I know that the love of God is not in you.

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

Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Ephesians 6:12)

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the intimate sharing of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

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

Jehovah disciplines those he loves. In fact he scourges every son (child) he receives.

Observe the love the Father gave to us that we should be called the children of God. That is what we are! For this reason the world does not know us. This is because it did not know him.

He answered: Love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your life, with all your strength and with all your mind. (Feelings and total existence) (Might and total thinking capacity) And you should love your neighbor as yourself. (Deuteronomy 6:5) (Leviticus 19:18)

He that has my commandments, and obeys them loves me. My Father will love the person who loves me. I will love him and disclose myself to him.

When they had eaten Jesus said to Simon Peter: Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these? He said: Yes Lord; you know I have affection for you. Jesus said to him: Feed my lambs.

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

We continually remember your work of faith, labor of love, and patience, and your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

The man who endures under trial is blessed. For when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life that God promised to those who love him.

You love him without seeing him. Though you do not see him, you believe in him. Full of glory, you rejoice greatly with indescribable joy.

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

All men will know that you are my disciples if you have love for one another.

Owe no man any thing but to love one another. He that loves another has fulfilled (obeyed) the law.

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

I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

For you brothers, were called for freedom; only do not use your freedom for an occasion to the flesh. Serve one another through love!

Walk with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, putting up with one another in love.

I pray that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment.

I do this that they may be filled with courage and be united (knit) together in love. I have the full assurance that only true understanding brings. In this way they will accurately know God's secret, which is Christ himself.

They suffer wrong as their reward for wrongdoing. They are men that count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions while they feast with you.

Woe to you Pharisees! You love the prominent seats in the synagogues, and the greetings in the marketplaces.

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world. People loved the darkness rather than the light for their works were evil.

They loved the glory from men more than the glory from God.

For Demas forsook me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

They went astray, forsaking the right way. They followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing.

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

Love is patient. Love is kind. Love is not jealous. Love does not brag and is not arrogant (proud). Love does not act indecently. It is not selfish. It is not provoked and does not take into account a wrong suffered. Love does not rejoice with evil, but rejoices with the truth.read more.
It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. Love never fails. Where there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away. Where there are tongues, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor evil and cling to good.

But the objective is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith without hypocrisy.

You have purified your hearts by obeying the truth. You have genuine affection for the brothers and sisters. So always love one another intensely (extremely) (deeply) from the heart.

There is no fear in love. Perfect (mature) love throws out (expels) fear because fear involves restraint (punishment). He who fears is not made perfect (mature) (complete) through love.

Whoever has this world's goods and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his compassion from him, how does the love of God dwell in him? My Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

If you love me, you will keep (obey) my commandments!

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

If because of your food your brother is grieved, you do not walk in love. Do not allow what you eat to destroy the one for whom Christ died.

I have been impaled with Christ. It is no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me. The life that I now live in the flesh (physical body) I live by faith. This is the faith that is in the Son of God. He loved me and gave himself up for me.

The love of God was made known through us. God sent his only-begotten Son into the world that we might live through him.

This is how we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we obey his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.

Faith, hope and love remain. These three! The greatest of these is love!

Jesus told him: You shall love Jehovah your God with all your heart (Greek: kardia: feelings, emotions), and with all your being, and with your entire mind (Greek: dianoia: understanding). (Deuteronomy 6:5) This is the greatest and first commandment. The second like it is this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'

Jesus answered: The first is, Hear, O Israel; Jehovah our God is one God (Jehovah). You should love Jehovah your God with all your heart, and with all your being (with every breath you take) (your life), with your entire mind and with all your strength. (Deuteronomy 6:4) The second is you should love your neighbor as yourself. No other commandment is greater than these. (Leviticus 19:18)

For the Law code says: You must not commit adultery, you must not murder, you must not steal, you must not bear false witness, and you must not covet. If there is any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying; namely, you must love your neighbor as yourself. Love works no ill to his neighbor. Therefore love is the law's fulfillment.

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

May Christ dwell in your hearts through faith to the end that you will be rooted and grounded in love. May you be able to comprehend with all the holy ones the breadth and length and height and depth. And may you know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge. May you be filled with all the fullness of God.

Above all these things, put on love, which is the bond of perfection and unity.

Add brotherly kindness to your godliness. And to your brotherly kindness add love.

He who loves his brother lives in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling (offence) in him.