'Love' in the Bible

But whoever keeps his word, truly in this person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in him.

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,

See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called children of God, and we are! Because of this the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are evident: everyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, namely, the one who does not love his brother.

For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another,

We know that we have passed over from death to life because we love the brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.

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.

But whoever has the world's material possessions and observes his brother {in need} and shuts his heart against him, how does the love of God reside in him?

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

And this is his commandment: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as {he commanded us}.

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.

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.

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.

Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us and his love is perfected in us.

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.

By this love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because just as that one is, [so] also are we in this world.

[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.

We love, because he first loved us.

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.

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

By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and keep his commandments.

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