Bible verses by topic / Love
I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love.
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.
Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice! Strive for full restoration, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.
But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.
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.
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them.
Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing.
A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
Not to us, Lord, not to us but to your name be the glory, because of your love and faithfulness.
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.
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.
My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
“And with you, Lord, is unfailing love”; and, “You reward everyone according to what they have done.”
Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands.
And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
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.
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.
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.
The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
By day the Lord directs his love, at night his song is with me— a prayer to the God of my life.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.
Flee the evil desires of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
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.
Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
The Lord loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of his unfailing love.
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 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.
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.
And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.
For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
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.
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
No one should seek their own good, but the good of others.
Whoever pursues righteousness and love finds life, prosperity and honor.
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.
Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity.
Let your face shine on your servant; save me in your unfailing love.
Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs.
Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.
But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.
Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.
You, Lord, are forgiving and good, abounding in love to all who call to you.