10 Bible Verses about Love For The Church

You husband, love your spouse, even as Christ loved the church, and laid down his life for her:

You that have purified your souls by the holy spirit, in obeying the gospel, which obliges you to an undisguised benevolence, let your hearts be mutually affected with the most disinterested ardour;

if I then, tho' lord and master, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. for I have given you example, that you might behave to one another, as I have to you.

Now the whole body of believers were but one heart, and one soul: no one look'd upon what he possessed, as his own, but every thing was held in common.

O Corinthians, my heart is so full, my tongue cannot be silent:

Receive me as one who has wronged no man, who has corrupted no man, who has defrauded no man. I speak not this to your reproach: for I have already assured you, that I am so heartily well affected to you, I could live and die with you.

for God is my witness, that I love you with a christian tenderness.

as for us, we know, that we have passed from a state of death to that of life, because we love our brethren: he that does not love his brother, is in a destructive state.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and am filling up the measure of those remaining afflictions, which in my turn I am to suffer in this life, in the cause of Christ, for the sake of his body, which is the church:

but herein hath God displayed his love towards us, in that Christ died for us, even while we were yet sinners.