John 3:16ESV / 14 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
1 Peter 4:8ESV / 9 helpful votes
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8ESV / 9 helpful votes
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
1 John 4:16ESV / 8 helpful votes
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
1 John 4:8ESV / 8 helpful votes
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13ESV / 8 helpful votes
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...
1 Corinthians 13:13ESV / 7 helpful votes
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Romans 8:38-39ESV / 7 helpful votes
For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 5:8ESV / 7 helpful votes
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
John 15:13ESV / 7 helpful votes
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
John 14:15ESV / 7 helpful votes
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
Matthew 6:24ESV / 7 helpful votes
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
Proverbs 10:12ESV / 7 helpful votes
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.
Deuteronomy 7:9ESV / 7 helpful votes
Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,
Leviticus 19:18ESV / 7 helpful votes
You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
1 John 4:19ESV / 6 helpful votes
We love because he first loved us.
1 John 4:7ESV / 6 helpful votes
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
1 John 3:18ESV / 6 helpful votes
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
1 John 3:16ESV / 6 helpful votes
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
Hebrews 6:10ESV / 6 helpful votes
For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.
Galatians 5:22ESV / 6 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
1 Corinthians 13:4ESV / 6 helpful votes
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant
Romans 12:10ESV / 6 helpful votes
Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
John 13:34-35ESV / 6 helpful votes
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Mark 12:31ESV / 6 helpful votes
The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
Matthew 22:37ESV / 6 helpful votes
And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
Matthew 22:37-39ESV / 6 helpful votes
And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Proverbs 17:17ESV / 6 helpful votes
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Psalm 23:1-6ESV / 6 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...
1 John 3:1ESV / 5 helpful votes
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
1 Timothy 1:5ESV / 5 helpful votes
The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
Colossians 3:14ESV / 5 helpful votes
And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
Ephesians 4:2ESV / 5 helpful votes
With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
Galatians 5:22-23ESV / 5 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Galatians 2:20ESV / 5 helpful votes
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Romans 13:8ESV / 5 helpful votes
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
John 13:34ESV / 5 helpful votes
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
John 3:16-17ESV / 5 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Proverbs 17:9ESV / 5 helpful votes
Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.
2 John 1:6ESV / 4 helpful votes
And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.
1 John 4:18ESV / 4 helpful votes
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
1 John 4:12ESV / 4 helpful votes
No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
1 John 4:11ESV / 4 helpful votes
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
1 John 2:15ESV / 4 helpful votes
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1 John 2:5ESV / 4 helpful votes
But whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him:
1 Peter 1:8ESV / 4 helpful votes
Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory,
James 2:8ESV / 4 helpful votes
If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
1 Thessalonians 3:12ESV / 4 helpful votes
And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you,
Philippians 2:2ESV / 4 helpful votes
Complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.
Ephesians 6:24ESV / 4 helpful votes
Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with love incorruptible.
Ephesians 5:33ESV / 4 helpful votes
However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Ephesians 5:25ESV / 4 helpful votes
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
Galatians 5:13ESV / 4 helpful votes
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
Galatians 1:1-24ESV / 4 helpful votes
Paul, an apostle—not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead— and all the brothers who are with me, To the churches of Galatia: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. ...
2 Corinthians 5:14ESV / 4 helpful votes
For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died;
1 Corinthians 16:14ESV / 4 helpful votes
Let all that you do be done in love.
Romans 13:10ESV / 4 helpful votes
Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Romans 8:28ESV / 4 helpful votes
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Romans 5:5ESV / 4 helpful votes
And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
John 15:12ESV / 4 helpful votes
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
John 15:9-17ESV / 4 helpful votes
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. ...
John 14:21ESV / 4 helpful votes
Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”
John 13:35ESV / 4 helpful votes
By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Luke 6:35ESV / 4 helpful votes
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.
Mark 12:30ESV / 4 helpful votes
And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’
Zephaniah 3:17ESV / 4 helpful votes
The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.
Daniel 4:1-37ESV / 4 helpful votes
King Nebuchadnezzar to all peoples, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you! It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has done for me. How great are his signs, how mighty his wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion endures from generation to generation. I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at ease in my house and prospering in my palace. I saw a dream that made me afraid. As I lay in bed the fancies and the visions of my head alarmed me. ...
Proverbs 15:17ESV / 4 helpful votes
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.
Joshua 22:5ESV / 4 helpful votes
Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cling to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
Revelation 2:4ESV / 3 helpful votes
But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.
Jude 1:21ESV / 3 helpful votes
Keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.
1 John 5:3ESV / 3 helpful votes
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.
1 John 4:21ESV / 3 helpful votes
And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.
1 John 3:17ESV / 3 helpful votes
But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?
1 John 3:11ESV / 3 helpful votes
For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
1 Peter 3:8ESV / 3 helpful votes
Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.
1 Peter 1:22ESV / 3 helpful votes
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,
James 1:12ESV / 3 helpful votes
Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
Hebrews 13:5ESV / 3 helpful votes
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
2 Timothy 2:22ESV / 3 helpful votes
So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
2 Thessalonians 3:5ESV / 3 helpful votes
May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.
1 Thessalonians 4:11ESV / 3 helpful votes
And to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you,
1 Thessalonians 4:9ESV / 3 helpful votes
Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another,
Philippians 1:9ESV / 3 helpful votes
And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment,
1 Corinthians 13:8ESV / 3 helpful votes
Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
1 Corinthians 13:1-3ESV / 3 helpful votes
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Romans 13:8-10ESV / 3 helpful votes
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Romans 12:9ESV / 3 helpful votes
Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.
Romans 12:1-21ESV / 3 helpful votes
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. ...
John 17:26ESV / 3 helpful votes
I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
John 15:9-13ESV / 3 helpful votes
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
John 14:23ESV / 3 helpful votes
Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
John 8:42ESV / 3 helpful votes
Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me.
John 3:1-36ESV / 3 helpful votes
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ...
Luke 6:31ESV / 3 helpful votes
And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.
Mark 10:21ESV / 3 helpful votes
And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
Matthew 22:36-40ESV / 3 helpful votes
“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
Matthew 19:19ESV / 3 helpful votes
Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Matthew 10:37ESV / 3 helpful votes
Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Matthew 6:34ESV / 3 helpful votes
“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
