41 Bible Verses about Loving Yourself

There is a second like it: 'You must love your neighbor as you do yourself.'

And this is the second: 'You must love your neighbor as you do yourself.' No other command is greater than these."

For the whole Law is summed up in one saying: "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself."

If you really obey the supreme law where the Scripture says, "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself," you are doing right,

and to love him with one's whole heart, one's whole understanding, and one's whole strength, and to love one's neighbor as one's self is far more than all these burnt-offerings and sacrifices."

He answered, " 'You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, your whole strength, and your whole mind,' and 'your neighbor as you do yourself.' "

Honor your father and mother,' and 'You shall love your neighbor as you do yourself.' "

and keep in the love of God, and wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, to bring you to eternal life.

I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you must love one another.

The command that I give you is to love one another just as I have loved you.

For if you love only those who love you, what reward can you expect? Do not the very tax-collectors do that?

This is the command that we get from him, that whoever loves God must love his brother also.

Be affectionate in your love for the brotherhood, eager to show one another honor,

Do not love the world or what is in the world. If anyone loves the world, there is no love for the Father in his heart,

We love because he loved us first.

That is the great, first command.

Love never wrongs a neighbor, and so love fully satisfies the Law.

If anyone says, "I love God," and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

And he said to him, " 'You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, and your whole mind.'

And I will be glad to spend all I have and all I am for your sake. Are you going to love me the less for loving you so intensely?

But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for your persecutors,

These two commands sum up the whole of the Law and the Prophets."

For the commandments, "You must not commit adultery, You must not murder, You must not steal, You must not covet," and any other commandments there are, are all summed up in one saying, "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself."

for the Father loves you himself because you love me and believe that I have come from the Father.

No one who loves father or mother more than he loves me is worthy of me, and no one who loves son or daughter more than he loves me is worthy of me,

That is the way husbands ought to love their wives??s if they were their own bodies; a man who loves his wife is really loving himself,

In every way set them an example of good conduct yourself. Teach with sincerity and seriousness,

By this they will all know that you are my disciples??y your love for one another."

For your part, you must keep the faith you have to yourself, as between God and you. He is a happy man who has no fault to find with himself in following the course that he approves,

For if I was out of my senses, as they say, it was between God and me; and if I am in my right mind, it is for your good.

We must lovingly hold to the truth and grow up into perfect union with him who is the head??hrist himself.

We know what love means from the fact that he laid down his life for us; so we also ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

and lead loving lives, just as Christ loved you and gave himself for you, as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Live in harmony with one another. Do not be too ambitious, but accept humble tasks. Do not be conceited.

For you, brothers, have been called to freedom; only do not make your freedom an excuse for the physical, but in love be slaves to one another.

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,

Even if I give away everything I own, and give myself up, but do it in pride, not love, it does me no good.

Therefore, you must always treat other people as you would like to have them treat you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.

I have loved you just as the Father has loved me. You must retain my love.

Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.

But each one of you must love his wife just as he loves himself, and the wife, too, must respect her husband.