'Love' in the Bible

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.

Now I ask you, lady, not as though I were writing to you a new commandment, but the one which we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.

And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth.

and they have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God.

May mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you.

These are the men who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted;

keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.

But I have this against you, that you have left your first love.

‘I know your deeds, and your love and faith and service and perseverance, and that your deeds of late are greater than at first.

Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent.

And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life even when faced with death.