64 Bible Verses about Love, Nature Of

Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God, and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God is love.

And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love towards one another and towards all men, as we also do towards you,

For God hath not given us the Spirit of fear, but of power, and love, and sobriety.

And we know and believe the love that God hath to us. God is love, and he that abideth in love, abideth in God, and God in him.

Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

Herein is love; not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son, a propitiation for our sins.

No one hath greater love than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

as Christ also hath loved us, and given himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God of a sweet-smelling savour.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, fidelity,

And hope shameth us not, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

Now I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me,

Who also declared to us your love in the spirit.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him, may not perish, but have everlasting life.

For I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not:

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

nor things present, nor things to come, 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.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all.

But God who is rich in mercy,

For whom the Lord loveth, he chastneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the Sons of God; therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

How readest thou? And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me, shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

When they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonah, lovest thou me more than these do? He saith to him, Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee.

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

Remembring without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of our God and Father:

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

Whom having not seen, ye love: in whom tho' ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory, Receiving the end of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

For 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 have love one to another.

Owe no man any thing, but to love another; for he that loveth another, hath fulfilled the law.

Christ Jesus.

I speak not by way of command, but that by the diligence of others, I may prove the sincerity of your love.

Brethren, ye have been called to liberty: only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

With all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering,

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more, in all knowledge and in all spiritual sense,

That their hearts may be comforted, being knit together in love, even unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, unto the acknowledgment of the mystery of God,

Receiving the reward of unrighteousness. They count it pleasure to riot in the day time; spots and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings, while they feast with you,

Wo to you, Pharisees; for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues,

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

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

For Demas hath forsaken me, loving the present world, and is gone to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

Who have forsaken the right way and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam, the son of Boser, who loved the reward of unrighteousness.

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world: if any one love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Love suffereth long and is kind; love envieth not; love acteth not rashly, is not puffed up: Doth not behave indecently, seeketh not her own, is not provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not at iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth: Covereth all things,read more.
believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil, cleave to that which is good.

Whereas the end of the commandment is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience, and faith unfeigned,

Having purified your souls by obeying the truth thro' the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another with a pure heart fervently:

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath torment.

But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? My beloved children, let us love not in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Comforter,

But God recommendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

But if thy brother is grieved by thy meat, thou no longer walkest charitably. Destroy not him by thy meat, for whom Christ died.

I am crucified with Christ, and I live no longer, but Christ liveth in me, and the life that I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Hereby was manifested the love of God toward us, because God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

Hereby we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments; and his commandments are not grievous.

And now abide these three, faith, hope, love; but the greatest of these is love.

Jesus said to him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments

And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; the Lord our 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 it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is no other commandment greater than these.

For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness, thou shalt not covet, and if there be any other commandment, it is summed up in this saying, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no evil to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but faith which worketh by love.

That being rooted and grounded in love, ye may be able to comprehend with all saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height, And to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled with all the fulness of God.

And above all these put on love, which is the bond of perfection:

and to patience godliness, And to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.

He that loveth his brother, abideth in the light, and there is no occasion of stumbling in him.