39 Bible Verses about True Love

There is no fear where love exists. Rather, perfect love banishes fear, for fear involves punishment, and the person who lives in fear has not been perfected in love.

Now that you have obeyed the truth and have purified your souls to love your brothers sincerely, you must love one another intensely and with a pure heart.

No one shows greater love than when he lays down his life for his friends.

This is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Little children, we must stop expressing love merely by our words and manner of speech; we must love also in action and in truth.

This is how God's love was revealed among us: God sent his unique Son into the world so that we might live through him.

And this is what demonstrates love: that we live according to God's commandments. Just as you have heard from the beginning what he commanded, you must live by it.

Dear friends, let us continuously love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born from God and knows God.

The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

This is how we have come to know love: the Messiah gave his life for us. We, too, ought to give our lives for our brothers.

Love is always patient; love is always kind; love is never envious or arrogant with pride. Nor is she conceited,

Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which ties everything together in unity.

And this is my prayer, that your love will keep on growing more and more with full knowledge and insight,

My darling, I compare you to a mare among Pharaoh's chariots.

We have come to know and rely on the love that God has for us. God is love, and the person who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

Above all, continue to love each other deeply, because love covers a multitude of sins.

We love because God first loved us.

May grace be with all who sincerely love the Lord Jesus, the Messiah!

Stop loving the world and the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, the Father's love is not in him.

An open rebuke is better than unspoken love.

The goal of this instruction is love that flows from a pure heart, from a clear conscience, and from a sincere faith.

And this is the commandment that we have from him: the person who loves God must also love his brother.

Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us from God the Father and from Jesus the Messiah, the Father's Son, in truth and love.

Whoever says, "I love God," but hates his brother is a liar. The one who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love the God whom he has not seen.

For this demonstrates our love for God: We keep his commandments, and his commandments are not difficult,

She bears up under everything; believes the best in all; there is no limit to her hope, and never will she fall.

May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the endurance of the Messiah.

Love never fails. Now if there are prophecies, they will be done away with. If there are languages, they will cease. If there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

However, I have this against you: You have abandoned the love you had at first.

If I have the gift of prophecy and can understand all secrets and every form of knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains but have no love, I am nothing.

Even if I give away everything that I have and sacrifice myself, but have no love, I gain nothing.

Be devoted to each other with mutual affection. Excel at showing respect for each other.

Love never does anything that is harmful to its neighbor. Therefore, love is the fulfillment of the Law.

He has told us about your love in the Spirit.

My beloved spoke to me: "Get up, my darling, my beautiful one, and come on.

Your love must be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good.

Instead, by speaking the truth in love, we will grow up completely and become one with the head, that is, one with the Messiah,

I'm giving you a new commandment"to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.

Because they are united in love, I pray that their hearts may be encouraged by all the riches that come from a complete understanding of the full knowledge of the Messiah, who is the mystery of God.