Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word.

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

And walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters. Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

We love because He first loved us.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness.

When I said, “My foot is slipping,” your unfailing love, Lord, supported me.

Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.

One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple.

However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived”— the things God has prepared for those who love him.

If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.

Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

Since you are precious and honored in my sight, and because I love you, I will give people in exchange for you, nations in exchange for your life.

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.

“And with you, Lord, is unfailing love”; and, “You reward everyone according to what they have done.”

Do not withhold your mercy from me, Lord; may your love and faithfulness always protect me.

But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.

To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.

For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.

This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.

And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.

If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?

For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

No one should seek their own good, but the good of others.

Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.

If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.

I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.

‘You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, honor your father and mother,’ and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’

If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline, and do not resent his rebuke, because the Lord disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in.

For, “Whoever would love life and see good days must keep their tongue from evil and their lips from deceitful speech. They must turn from evil and do good; they must seek peace and pursue it.”

Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.

Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man.

The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.

Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent.

But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.

Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life.

Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity.

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.