'Love' in the Bible

Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

Let all that you do be done in love.

If any man doesn't love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. Come, Lord!

My love to all of you in Christ Jesus. Amen.

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.

Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him.

For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

in pureness, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,

But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.

I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

Therefore show the proof of your love to them in front of the assemblies, and of our boasting on your behalf.

Why? Because I don't love you? God knows.

I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

Finally, brothers, rejoice. Be perfected, be comforted, be of the same mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don't use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without blemish before him in love;

For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which you have toward all the saints,

But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

and to know Christ's love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;

from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. Amen.

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;

but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News.

If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have toward all the saints,

who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;

that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you;

and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

But let us, since we belong to the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

and to respect and honor them in love for their work's sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you towards one another abounds;

and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn't receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

May the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ.

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith;

The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and gentleness.

For God didn't give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

But you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,

that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience:

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared,

All who are with me greet you. Greet those who love us in faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.

hearing of your love, and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints;

For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

Let brotherly love continue.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, "I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you."

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn't God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.

whom not having known you love; in whom, though now you don't see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory --

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:

Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

For, "He who would love life, and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Greet one another with a kiss of love. Peace be to you all who are in Christ Jesus. Amen.

and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.

But whoever keeps his word, God's love has most certainly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:

Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.

Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.

In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother.

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

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn't love his brother remains in death.

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.

He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.

By this God's love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Beloved, 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 remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.