Topic
Love Is
100 verses · ranked by helpfulness
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.
We love him, because he first loved us.
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.
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.
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.’ — read the full passage →
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 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?
Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
If you love me, keep my commandments.
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.
Let all that you do be done in love.
Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;
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.
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 →
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.
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.
Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh. — read the full passage →
Let brotherly love continue.
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.
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.”
No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. — read the full passage →
In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;
The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no other commandment greater than these.”
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
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.
Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ — read the full passage →
My little children, let’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.
By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. — read the full passage →
He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.
“‘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.
“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.
No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart. — read the full passage →
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. — read the full passage →
Many waters can’t quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned. Friends
Yahweh, your God, is in your midst, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.
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 →
But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, — read the full passage →
Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.
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.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? — read the full passage →
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time; — read the full passage →
By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
Jesus answered, “The greatest is, ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one: — read the full passage →
But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment; and whoever shall say to his brother, ‘Raca!’ shall be in danger of the council; and whoever shall say, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.
Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:
We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.
“There are three things which are too amazing for me, four which I don’t understand: — 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.
with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — read the full passage →
Since you have been precious and honored in my sight, and I have loved you; therefore I will give people in your place, and nations instead of your life.
How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine! The fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds of spices!
“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.
Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh.
Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.
We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.
You are puffed up, and didn’t rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.
Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.
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.
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →
Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
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.
My beloved is mine, and I am his. He browses among the lilies.
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.
Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, — read the full passage →
Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred.
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.
“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?” — read the full passage →
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love is better than wine.
“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. — read the full passage →
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.
Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you.
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
I love you, Yahweh, my strength.
For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.
Topical index adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Verse text: WEB.