39 Bible Verses about True Love

There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears punishment has not been perfected in love.

You have purified your souls by obeying the truth in order to show sincere mutual love. So love one another earnestly from a pure heart.

No one has greater love than this -- that one lays 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 atoning sacrifice 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 has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him.

(Now this is love: that we walk according to his commandments.) This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning; thus 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 person who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.

Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up.

And to all these virtues add love, which is the perfect bond.

And I pray this, that your love may abound even more and more in knowledge and every kind of insight

The Lover to His Beloved: O my beloved, you are like a mare among Pharaoh's stallions.

And we have come to know and to believe 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 fervent, because love covers a multitude of sins.

We love because he loved us first.

Grace be with all of those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.

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 is open rebuke than hidden love.

But the aim of our instruction is love that comes from a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith.

And the commandment we have from him is this: that the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian too.

Grace, mercy, and 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 yet hates his fellow Christian, he is a liar, because the one who does not love his fellow Christian whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments do not weigh us down,

It 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 the endurance of Christ.

Love never ends. But if there are prophecies, they will be set aside; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be set aside.

But I have this against you: You have departed from your first love!

And if I have prophecy, and 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.

If I give away everything I own, and if I give over my body in order to boast, but do not have love, I receive no benefit.

Be devoted to one another with mutual love, showing eagerness in honoring one another.

Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

who also told us of your love in the Spirit.

The Lover to His Beloved: My lover spoke to me, saying: "Arise, my darling; My beautiful one, come away with me!

Love must be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil, cling to what is good.

But practicing the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ, who is the head.

"I give you a new commandment -- to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

My goal is that their hearts, having been knit together in love, may be encouraged, and that they may have all the riches that assurance brings in their understanding of the knowledge of the mystery of God, namely, Christ,