41 Bible Verses about Loving Yourself

The second, which is like it, is this--'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost thyself.'

The second is this--'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost love thyself.' There is no commandment greater than these."

Indeed, the whole Law has been summed up in this one precept- -'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost thyself.'

Yet, if you keep the royal law which runs--'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost thyself,' you are doing right;

And to 'love him with all one's heart, and with all one's understanding, and with all one's strength,' and to 'love one's neighbor as one loves oneself' is far beyond all 'burnt-offerings and sacrifices.'"

His reply was--"'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thou dost thyself.'"

Honor thy father and thy mother.' And 'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost thyself."

and keep within the love of God, while waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, to bring you to Immortal Life.

I give you a new commandment--Love one another; love one another as I have loved you.

This is my command--Love one another, as I have loved you.

For, if you love only those who love you, what reward will you have? Even the tax-gatherers do this!

Indeed, we have this Command from God-- 'He who loves God must also love his Brother.'

In brotherly love, be affectionate to one another; in showing respect, set an example of deference to one another;

Do not love the world or what the world can offer. When any one loves the world, there is no love for the Father in him;

We love, because God first loved us.

This is the great first commandment.

Love never wrongs a neighbor. Therefore Love fully satisfies the Law.

If a man says 'I love God,' and yet hates his Brother, he is a liar; for the man who does not love his Brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

His answer was: "'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy Heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.'

For my part, I will most gladly spend, and be spent, for your welfare. Can it be that the more intensely I love you the less I am to be loved?

I, however, say to you--Love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you,

On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets."

The commandments, 'Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not covet,' and whatever other commandment there is, are all summed up in the words--'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost thyself.'

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

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

That is how husbands ought to love their wives--as if they were their own bodies. A man who loves his wife is really loving himself;

Above all, set an example of doing good. Show sincerity in your teaching, and a serious spirit;

It is by this that every one will recognize you as my disciples--by your loving one another."

As for yourself--keep this faith of yours to yourself, as in the presence of God. Happy is he who never has to condemn himself in regard to the very thing which he thinks right!

For, if we were "beside ourselves," it was in God's service! If we are not in our senses, it is in yours!

But holding the truth in a spirit of love, we shall grow into complete union with him who is our Head--Christ himself.

We have learned to know what love is from this--that Christ laid down his life on our behalf. Therefore we also ought to lay down our lives on behalf of our Brothers.

And live a life of love, following the example of the Christ, who loved you and gave himself for you as 'an offering and a sacrifice to God, that should be fragrant and acceptable.'

Let the same spirit of sympathy animate you all, not a spirit of pride; be glad to associate with the lowly. Do not think too highly of yourselves.

Remember, Brothers, to you the Call came to give you freedom. Only do not make your freedom an opportunity for self-indulgence, but serve one another in a loving spirit.

Now that, by your obedience to the Truth, you have purified your lives, so that there is growing up among you a genuine brotherly affection, love one another earnestly with all your hearts;

Even though I dole my substance to the poor, even though I sacrifice my body, that I may boast, yet have not Love, it avails me nothing!

Do to others whatever you would wish them to do to you; for that is the teaching of both the Law and the Prophets.

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

He who does not love has not learned to know God; for God is Love.

However, for you individually, let each love his wife as if she were himself; and the wife be careful to respect her husband.