36 Bible Verses about True Love

Fear is a stranger to love; for perfect loves excludes all fear: since pain is the object of fear, he that is affected with fear, cannot be sincere in his love.

You that have purified your souls by the holy spirit, in obeying the gospel, which obliges you to an undisguised benevolence, let your hearts be mutually affected with the most disinterested ardour;

there cannot be greater love than that of a man, who lays down his life for his friends.

and what heightens his love, was this, that it was not we who first loved God, but it was he that first loved us, and sent his son to expiate our sins.

my dear children, let not our love be only in the language of our lips, but in the real effects of the heart.

by this was the love of God displayed towards us, in that God sent his only begotten son into the world, that we might live thro' him.

now love consists in the practice of the divine precepts. this is the precept you have originally receiv'd, as the rule of your conduct.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God.

he that has not social affection, does not know God; for God is love.

this is the proof of the divine love, Christ expos'd his life for us: and we ought to expose our lives for the brethren.

Social affection is patient, is kind; is a stranger to envy; is not insolently vain, nor arrogant: does not behave indecently,

to all this add love, which is the band of perfect union:

and the favour I ask of him is this, that your kindness to me may be crown'd with farther improvements in knowledge and all prudence;

and we have known, and are convinced that God hath loved us. God is love; and he that cultivates social affection, dwelleth in God, and God in him.

but above all, let your mutual benevolence be intense, for benevolence cancels a multitude of offences.

let us love him; since he first loved us.

grace be with all those that have love uncorrupted for our Lord Jesus Christ. amen.

Love not the world, nor let worldly things engage your affections. he that is worldly affected is a stranger to divine love.

such a charge will produce that charity, which arises from purity, from a good conscience, and a sincere belief:

besides, 'tis a commandment we have receiv'd from him, that he who would love God, must love his brother also.

Grace, mercy, and peace be with you from God the father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ the son of the father, in consequence of your sincere piety, and social virtue.

if a man says he loves God, and yet hates his brother, he is a lyar: for he that does not love his brother, who is before his eyes, how can he love God who is invisible?

for our love of God consists in the observation of his precepts: precepts that are far from being grievous.

it excuses all things, believes what is favourable, hopes for the best, and suffers the worst.

may the Lord qualify your hearts with divine affection, and a patient expectation of Jesus Christ.

Social affection will never fail: but as for prophecies, they shall be out of use; as for languages, they shall cease; as for knowledge, it shall vanish away.

nevertheless, I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.

and tho' I should have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and tho' I had all the faith necessary to remove mountains, and had no benevolence, it would signify nothing.

and tho' I distribute my whole substance to the poor, and give my body to be burned, and have not social affection, it profits me nothing.

in brotherly kindness be passionately affected to one another; in honour prefer one another:

thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self." the benevolent never does wrong to his neighbour: therefore benevolence is the fulfilling of the law.

who also declared to us the love you bear to us upon a spiritual account.

Let love be without dissimulation. abhor that which is evil, adhere to that which is good.

but being sincere in mutual love, may be entirely united to Christ, who is the head:

a new commandment I give unto you, "that ye love one another; that you would have the same love for one another as I have had for you."

that their hearts might be comforted, and that being firmly united in love, they might possess the highest and fullest persuasion of the truth of this doctrine, by entring into this mystery, even of God the father, and of Christ,