10 Bible Verses about Love For The Church

You married men must love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her,

Since you have purified your souls by obeying the truth, in sincere love for the brotherhood you must love one another heartily and fervently,

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

Now there was but one heart and soul in the vast number of those who had become believers, and not one of them claimed that anything that he had was his own, but they shared everything that they had as common property.

O Corinthians, my tongue is telling you everything; my heart is stretched with love for you.

Make room for me in your hearts, I have not wronged or harmed or taken advantage of a single one of you. I do not mean this for your condemnation, because, as I have said before, you have such a place in my heart that I would live with you or die with you.

For God is my witness how I never stop yearning for all of you with the affection Christ Jesus inspires.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love our brothers. Whoever does not continue to love continues still in death.

I am now glad to be suffering for you, and in my own person I am filling in what is lacking in Christ's sufferings for His body, that is, the church.

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