30 Bible Verses about Unconditional Love

let us love him; since he first loved us.

but if you love only them who love you, what reward can ye have? do not the heathens themselves do as much?

and Jesus said, "father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." then they divided his raiment among them by throwing lots,

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.

if ye then, as wicked as ye are, know how to bestow proper gifts upon your children; how much more shall your heavenly father give good things to them that ask him?

but when it pleased God, who ordained me from my birth, and called me by his especial favour, to reveal his son to me,

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

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

but herein hath God displayed his love towards us, in that Christ died for us, even while we were yet sinners.

is not self-interested, is not easily provoked, nor suspects any ill;

beloved, if God so loved us, we ought to love one another.

may the Lord make you increase and abound in mutual love, in love towards all men, as we do towards you:

as it is written, "Jacob have I loved, but Esau I have discarded."

or do you despise the riches of his kindness, and forbearance, and long-suffering; not considering that the kindness of God invites you to repentance?

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the father of glory, may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation, whereby ye may know him:

according as he had chosen us in himself before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy, free from vice, and devoted to virtue.

and we have this hope in the Lord, that you will still continue to observe the directions we give you.

if a man abide not in me, he is cast away as withered branches that are gather'd up to be thrown into the fire, where they are burned.

so that the passage of Esaias the prophet was fulfilled, where he says, "Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?

and he said to her, what would you have? grant, said she, when you are upon the throne, that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left.

for we are persuaded, my brethren, that you are the peculiar objects of divine favour;

Blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all the spiritual blessings in Christ's kingdom.

and this they were destin'd to. but you are the chosen race, you are kings and priests, the holy nation, the peculiar people, that you might display his glory, who called you out

to display the glory of his grace, which has render'd us acceptable by his beloved son:

yea, I intreat thee too, my faithful collegue, to assist them both, for they assisted me in the gospel, as well as Clement, and my other collegues, whose names are in the book of life.

far above all the principalities, all the powers, all the potentates, all the dominations, and whatever order can be named, not only in this age, but also in the age to come:

having predetermin'd to adopt us by Jesus Christ to be his children, according to the good pleasure of his own will,

and this is the pledge of our inheritance, being given for the deliverance of his peculiar people, to the display of his glory.

Wherefore having heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and of your love to all christians,

It is by him, that we have a share in the inheritance, which was before allotted to us, in consequence of his design, who executes the whole plan, as he himself had contriv'd it: