41 Bible Verses about Loving Yourself

And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

And the second, which is like it, is this: You shall love your neighbor as your self. There is no other commandment greater than these.

For all the law is fulfilled in one commandment, in this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

If, however, you fulfill the law of highest excellence, according to the scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well.

and to love him with the whole heart, and with the whole understanding, and with the whole soul, and with the whole strength, and to love one's neighbor as himself, is more than all whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices.

He answered and said: You shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart, and with your whole soul, and with your whole strength, and with your whole understanding, and your neighbor as yourself.

Honor your father and your mother; and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, in order to eternal life.

A new commandment I give to you, That you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

This is my commandment: That you love one another, as I have loved you.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the publicans the same?

And this commandment we have from him: That he that loves God, must love his brother also.

in love to the brotherhood, be kindly affectionate one to another; in showing honor, be examples one to another;

Love not the world, nor the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

We love him, because he first loved us.

This is the first and great commandment.

Love works no evil to our neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law.

If any man say, I love God, and yet hate his brother, he is a liar: for he that loves not his brother, whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

Jesus said to him: You shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart, and with your whole soul, and with your whole mind.

I, indeed, will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

But I say to you, Love your enemies: bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who insult you and persecute you:

On these two commandments hang the whole law and the prophets.

For these commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not indulge evil desire; and if there is any other commandment, all are summed up in this saying, namely: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from God.

He that loves father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me: and he that loves son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me:

So ought men to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself;

in all things showing yourself an example of good works; in teaching, showing incorruptness, gravity,

By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.

Have you faith? Have it to yourself before God. Blessed is he who condemns not himself in that which he approves.

For if we be beside our selves, it is for God; or, if we be of sound mind, it is for you.

but speaking truthfully in love, we might grow up in all things, into him who is the head, even the Christ,

By this we know the love of Christ, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

and walk in love, as the Christ also loved us, and gave him self for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet odor.

cultivate the same disposition, one to ward another: mind not high things, but conform yourselves to things that are lowly. Be not wise in your own conceits;

For you have been called to freedom, brethren: only use not your freedom as an occasion for the flesh, but become servants to one another, through love.

Having purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit, to unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another with a pure heart fervently,

And though I give all my goods to feed the poor, and though I deliver up my body to be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

All things, therefore, whatever you would that men should do to you, even so do you to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love.

He that loves not, does not know God; for God is love.

But yet, let each one of you so love his wife as himself; and let the wife see that she reverence her husband.