39 Bible Verses about True Love

[There] is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear includes punishment, and the one who is afraid has not been perfected in love.

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for sincere brotherly love, love one another fervently from the heart,

No one has greater love than this: that someone lay down his life for his friends.

In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son [to be the] propitiation for our sins.

Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.

By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God sent his one and only Son into the world in order that we may live through him.

And this is love: that we walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.

Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.

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

We have come to know love by this: that {he} laid down his life on behalf of us, and we ought to lay down our lives on behalf of the brothers.

Love is patient, love is kind, love is not jealous, [it] does not boast, [it] does not become conceited,

And to all these [things] [add] love, which is [the] bond of perfection.

And this I pray: that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

To a mare among the chariots of Pharaoh, I compare you, my beloved.

And we have come to know and have believed the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.

Above all, keep your love for one another constant, because love covers a large number of sins.

We love, because he first loved us.

Grace [be] with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ in incorruptibility.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

Better a rebuke that is open than a love that is hidden.

But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a faith without hypocrisy,

And this [is] the commandment we have from him: that the one who loves God should love his brother also.

Grace, mercy, peace will be with us from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Son of the Father in truth and love.

If anyone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar, for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen is not able to love God whom he has not seen.

For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome,

bears all [things], believes all [things], hopes all [things], endures all [things].

Now may the Lord direct your hearts toward the love of God and toward the patient endurance of Christ.

Love never ends. But if [there are] prophecies, they will pass away. If [there are] tongues, they will cease. If [there is] knowledge, it will pass away.

But I have [this] against you: that you have left your first love.

And if I have [the gift of] prophecy and I know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that [I can] remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

And if I parcel out all my possessions, and if I hand over my body in order that I will be burned, but do not have love, it benefits [me] nothing.

being devoted to one another in brotherly love, esteeming one another [more highly] in honor,

Love does not commit evil against a neighbor. Therefore love [is the] fulfillment of the law.

[who] also made clear to us your love in the Spirit.

My beloved answered and said to me, "{Arise}, my beloved! {Come, my beauty}!

Love must be without hypocrisy. Abhor what [is] evil; be attached to what [is] good,

But speaking the truth in love, we are to grow into him [with reference to] all [things], who is the head, Christ,

"A new commandment I give to you: that you love one another--just as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

so that their hearts may be encouraged, united in love and into all the wealth of the full assurance of insight into the knowledge of the mystery of God, Christ,