Agape Love

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

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another. — read the full passage →

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

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

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

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

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.

One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”

So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” — read the full passage →

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.

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

If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? — read the full passage →

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

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

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

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.

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, — read the full passage →

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

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

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”

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

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.’ — read the full passage →

I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.’ — read the full passage →

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.’This is the first commandment.

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.

The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no other commandment greater than these.”

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

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

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. — read the full passage →

Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

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

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

We love him, because he first loved us.

For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

My God will go before me with his loving kindness. God will let me look at my enemies in triumph.

See 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.

These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

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

doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;

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

But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and the love of God. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus: — read the full passage →

He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.

Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love. — read the full passage →

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →

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

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

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.

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

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

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.

Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

After these things, Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias. He revealed himself this way. — read the full passage →

This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

Let all that you do be done in love.

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

“‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.”

Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues, and the greetings in the marketplaces.

But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd.

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.’

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

“I command these things to you, that you may love one another.

Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

But I have this against you, that you left your first love.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, — read the full passage →

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

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

Yahweh, you have been favorable to your land. You have restored the fortunes of Jacob. — read the full passage →