10 Bible Verses about Love For The Church

You who are husbands must love your wives, just as Christ loves the church and gave himself for her,

Now that by obeying the truth you have purified your souls for sincere love of the brotherhood, you must love one another intensely and heartily,

If I then, your Master and Teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash one another's feet too. For I have set you an example, in order that you may do what I have done to you.

There was but one heart and soul in the multitude who had become believers, and not one of them claimed anything that belonged to him as his own, but they shared everything they had with one another.

I have kept nothing back from you, men of Corinth; I have opened my heart to you.

Make room for me in your hearts. I have not wronged or harmed or got the better of anybody. I do not mean this as a reflection upon you, for as I said before, you will always have a place in my heart whether I live or die.

For God is my witness how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus himself.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love is still in death.

At present I am glad to be suffering in your interest, and I am making up in my own person what is lacking in Christ's sufferings for the church, which is his body.

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