56 Bible Verses about loving

Now that, by your obedience to the Truth, you have purified your lives, so that there is growing up among you a genuine brotherly affection, love one another earnestly with all your hearts;

My children, do not let our love be mere words, or end in talk; let it be true and show itself in acts.

Over all these virtues put on love; for that is the girdle which makes all complete.

He who does not love has not learned to know God; for God is Love.

Let everything you do be done in a loving spirit.

The love of God was revealed to us by his sending his only Son into the world, that we might find Life through him.

If you love only those who love you, what thanks will be due to you? Why, even the outcast love those who love them!

No one can give greater proof of love than by laying down his life for his friends.

May God's blessing be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.

This is my command--Love one another, as I have loved you.

Above all things, let your love for one another be earnest, for 'Love throws a veil over countless sins.'

Do not love the world or what the world can offer. When any one loves the world, there is no love for the Father in him;

Meanwhile Faith, Hope, and Love endure-these three, but the greatest of these is Love.

Dear friends, let us love one another, because Love comes from God; and every one who loves has received the new Life from God and knows God.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world--that is why the world hates you.

The words of Scripture are-'I loved Jacob, but I hated Esau.'

Always humble and gentle, patient, bearing lovingly with one another,

We love, because God first loved us.

Love is long-suffering, and kind; Love is never envious, never boastful, never conceited, never behaves unbecomingly;

And, moreover, we have learned to know, and have accepted as a fact, the love which God has for us. God is Love; and he who lives in love lives in God, and God in him.

By this the Children of God are distinguished from the Children of the Devil--No one who lives unrighteously comes from God, and especially the man who does not love his Brother.

In brotherly love, be affectionate to one another; in showing respect, set an example of deference to one another;

Indeed, we have this Command from God-- 'He who loves God must also love his Brother.'

I, however, say to you--Love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you,

I know your life, your love, faith, service, and endurance; and I know that your life of late has been better than it was at first.

and the loving-kindness of our Lord was boundless, and filled me with that faith and love which come from union with Christ Jesus.

If you love me, you will lay my commands to heart,

Even though I dole my substance to the poor, even though I sacrifice my body, that I may boast, yet have not Love, it avails me nothing!

If a man says 'I love God,' and yet hates his Brother, he is a liar; for the man who does not love his Brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

There is no fear in love. No! Love, when perfect, drives out fear, for fear implies punishment, and the man who feels fear has not attained to perfect love.

Even though I have the gift of preaching, and fathom all hidden truths and all the depths of knowledge; even though I have such faith as might move mountains, yet have not Love, I am nothing!

And this is love--to live in obedience to the Father's commands. This is the Command as you learned from the first, to live in a spirit of love.

And for you, may the Lord fill you to overflowing with love for one another and for every one, just as we are filled with love for you;

The object of all instruction is to call forth that love which comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith.