41 Bible Verses about Loving Yourself

The second is 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."

But if you really observe the law of the King in accordance with the Scripture, "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 loves himself is far more than all the burnt-offerings and sacrifices."

Then 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."

You must practice honoring your father and mother. And you must love your neighbor as you do yourself."

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

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

This is my command to you, to keep on loving one another as I have loved you.

For if you practice loving only those who love you, what reward will you get? Do not even the tax-collectors practice that?

This is the command that we get from Him, that whoever loves God loves his brother too.

In brotherly love be affectionate to one another, in personal honors put one another to the fore,

Stop loving the world, or the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, there is no love for the Father in his heart,

We love, because He loved us first.

This is the greatest command, and is first in importance.

Love never does a wrong to one's neighbor; so love is the perfect satisfaction of the law.

If anyone says, "I love God," and yet habitually 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 answered him, "'You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, and your whole mind.'

So in my own case, I will most happily spend my money and myself for your sakes. If I love you much more than I love others, am I to be loved less by you?

But I tell you, practice loving your enemies and praying for your persecutors,

The essence of the whole law and the prophets is packed into these two commands."

For the commandments, "You must not commit adultery; you must not murder; you must not steal; you must not have an evil desire," and any other commandment if there is any, are summed up in this command, "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself."

for the Father tenderly loves you Himself, because you now tenderly love me and now believe that I have come from the Father.

Anybody who loves father or mother more than he loves me is not worthy of me,

This is the way married men ought to love their wives, as they do their own bodies. The married man who loves his wife is really loving himself,

In everything you yourself continue to set them a worthy example of doing good; be sincere and serious in your teaching,

By this everybody will know that you are my disciples, if you keep on showing love for one another."

On your part, you must exercise your faith by the standard of yourself in the sight of God. Happy is the man who need not condemn himself for doing the thing that he approves.

For if I did go crazy, it was for God's glory; and if I am keeping my head cool, it is for your good.

But, on the other hand, we shall go on holding to the truth and in love growing up into perfect union with Him, that is, Christ Himself who is the Head.

We know what love is from the fact that He laid down His life for us; and so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

and practice living in love, just as Christ loved you too and gave Himself for you as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Keep on thinking in harmony with one another. Stop being high-minded but keep on associating with lowly people. Stop being conceited.

For you, brothers, were called to freedom; only you must not let your freedom be an excuse for the gratification of your lower nature, but in love be slaves to one another.

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 should dole out everything I have for charity, and give my body up to torture in mere boasting pride, but have no love, I get from it no good at all.

Then you must practice dealing with others as you would like for them to deal with you, for this is the summing up of the law and the prophets.

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

Whoever does not love has never come to know God by experience, because God is love.

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