'Love' in the Bible

Ye have heard that it has been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour and hate thine enemy.

But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who insult you and persecute you,

For if ye should love those who love you, what reward have ye? Do not also the tax-gatherers the same?

And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites; for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets so that they should appear to men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and will love the other, or he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Honour thy father and thy mother, and Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

And he said to him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy understanding.

And the second is like it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

and love the chief place in feasts and the first seats in the synagogues,

and because lawlessness shall prevail, the love of the most shall grow cold;

and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding, and with all thy strength. This is the first commandment.

And a second like it is this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is not another commandment greater than these.

and to love him with all the heart, and with all the intelligence, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbour as one's self, is more than all the burnt-offerings and sacrifices.

But to you that hear I say, Love your enemies; do good to those that hate you;

And if ye love those that love you, what thank is it to you? for even sinners love those that love them.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return, and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest; for he is good to the unthankful and wicked.

but as they had nothing to pay, he forgave both of them their debt: say, which of them therefore will love him most?

But he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thine understanding; and thy neighbour as thyself.

But woe unto you, Pharisees, for ye pay tithes of mint and rue and every herb, and pass by the judgment and the love of God: these ye ought to have done, and not have left those aside.

Woe unto you, Pharisees, for ye love the first seat in the synagogues and salutations in the market-places.

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and will love the other, or he will cleave to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Beware of the scribes, who like to walk about in long robes, and who love salutations in the market-places, and first seats in the synagogues, and first places at suppers;

but I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.

A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

By this shall all know that ye are disciples of mine, if ye have love amongst yourselves.

If ye love me, keep my commandments.

He that has my commandments and keeps them, he it is that loves me; but he that loves me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will manifest myself to him.

Jesus answered and said to him, If any one love me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our abode with him.

but that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father has commanded me, thus I do. Rise up, let us go hence.

As the Father has loved me, I also have loved you: abide in my love.

If ye shall keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love, as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.

No one has greater love than this, that one should lay down his life for his friends.

These things I command you, that ye love one another.

If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on account of this the world hates you.

And I have made known to them thy name, and will make it known; that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them and I in them.

and hope does not make ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given to us:

but God commends his love to us, in that, we being still sinners, Christ has died for us.

But we do know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to purpose.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? tribulation or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Let love be unfeigned; abhorring evil; cleaving to good:

as to brotherly love, kindly affectioned towards one another: as to honour, each taking the lead in paying it to the other:

Owe no one anything, unless to love one another: for he that loves another has fulfilled the law.

For, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not lust; and if there be any other commandment, it is summed up in this word, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Love works no ill to its neighbour; love therefore is the whole law.

For if on account of meat thy brother is grieved, thou walkest no longer according to love. Destroy not him with thy meat for whom Christ has died.

But I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in prayers for me to God;

but according as it is written, Things which eye has not seen, and ear not heard, and which have not come into man's heart, which God has prepared for them that love him,

What will ye? that I come to you with a rod; or in love, and in a spirit of meekness?

But concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.

But if any one love God, he is known of him):

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

And if I shall dole out all my goods in food, and if I deliver up my body that I may be burned, but have not love, I profit nothing.

Love has long patience, is kind; love is not emulous of others; love is not insolent and rash, is not puffed up,

Love never fails; but whether prophecies, they shall be done away; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall be done away.

And now abide faith, hope, love; these three things; and the greater of these is love.

Follow after love, and be emulous of spiritual manifestations, but rather that ye may prophesy.

Let all things ye do be done in love.

If any one love not the Lord Jesus Christ let him be Anathema Maranatha.

My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.

For out of much tribulation and distress of heart I wrote to you, with many tears; not that ye may be grieved, but that ye may know the love which I have very abundantly towards you.

Wherefore I exhort you to assure him of your love.

For the love of the Christ constrains us, having judged this: that one died for all, then all have died;

in pureness, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,

but even as ye abound in every way, in faith, and word, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in love from you to us, that ye may abound in this grace also.

I do not speak as commanding it, but through the zeal of others, and proving the genuineness of your love.

Shew therefore to them, before the assemblies, the proof of your love, and of our boasting about you.

Why? because I do not love you? God knows.

For the rest, brethren, rejoice; be perfected; be encouraged; be of one mind; be at peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

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

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision has any force, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.

For ye have been called to liberty, brethren; only do not turn liberty into an opportunity to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity,

according as he has chosen us in him before the world's foundation, that we should be holy and blameless before him in love;

Wherefore I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is in you, and the love which ye have towards all the saints,

but God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love wherewith he loved us,

that the Christ may dwell, through faith, in your hearts, being rooted and founded in love,

and to know the love of the Christ which surpasses knowledge; that ye may be filled even to all the fulness of God.

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing with one another in love;

but, holding the truth in love, we may grow up to him in all things, who is the head, the Christ:

from whom the whole body, fitted together, and connected by every joint of supply, according to the working in its measure of each one part, works for itself the increase of the body to its self-building up in love.

and walk in love, even as the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour.

Husbands, love your own wives, even as the Christ also loved the assembly, and has delivered himself up for it,

So ought men also to love their own wives as their own bodies: he that loves his own wife loves himself.

But ye also, every one of you, let each so love his own wife as himself; but as to the wife I speak that she may fear the husband.

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

Grace with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in incorruption.

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in full knowledge and all intelligence,

These indeed out of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the glad tidings;

If then there be any comfort in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and compassions,

fulfil my joy, that ye may think the same thing, having the same love, joined in soul, thinking one thing;

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

who has also manifested to us your love in the Spirit.

For this reason we also, from the day we heard of your faith and love, do not cease praying and asking for you, to the end that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

who has delivered us from the authority of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love:

to the end that their hearts may be encouraged, being united together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the full knowledge of the mystery of God;

And to all these add love, which is the bond of perfectness.