Topic

Loving

100 verses · ranked by helpfulness

1 John 4:8

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

1 Corinthians 13:4–8

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

John 3:16

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.

1 John 4:19

We love him, because he first loved us.

1 Corinthians 13:13

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

1 John 4:7

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

Colossians 3:14

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

Romans 5:8

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

John 15:13

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

Proverbs 10:12

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

1 Peter 4:8

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

Romans 13:8

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

Proverbs 17:17

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

Ephesians 5:25

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

Romans 8:28

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

Romans 5:5

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.

John 13:34

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

John 13:34–35

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 →

1 John 4:18

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.

1 Corinthians 16:14

Let all that you do be done in love.

Galatians 5:22–23

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

1 Corinthians 13:1–13

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 →

Luke 6:35

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.

Ephesians 4:2

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

Ephesians 2:4–5

But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, — read the full passage →

1 John 3:1

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.

1 Corinthians 13:4–7

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

John 15:12

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

John 14:15

If you love me, keep my commandments.

Mark 12:31

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

Deuteronomy 7:9

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,

Leviticus 19:18

“‘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.

1 John 3:16

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

John 3:16–17

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 →

1 John 4:16

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.

1 John 1:9

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Galatians 2:20

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.

1 John 4:20

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?

1 John 4:11

Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

1 John 4:7–8

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 →

1 Peter 1:22

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:

Romans 13:10

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

Luke 6:31

“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

Matthew 5:43–48

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

Ephesians 5:33

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Romans 12:10

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

Romans 8:37–39

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. — read the full passage →

Matthew 6:24

“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.

Proverbs 17:9

He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

Psalms 59:16

But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning. For you have been my high tower, a refuge in the day of my distress.

James 2:8

However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

Ephesians 4:2–3

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — read the full passage →

Romans 12:9

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

John 15:12–13

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

John 13:35

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

Zephaniah 3:17

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.

Song of Solomon 8:6–7

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 →

Psalms 86:15

But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

Psalms 63:3

Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.

1 John 4:21

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

1 John 4:12

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.

1 John 3:18

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

Philippians 2:2

make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

1 Corinthians 13:4

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

1 Corinthians 13:1

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.

1 Corinthians 13:1–3

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 →

Romans 13:8–10

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

John 14:21

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.”

Matthew 22:37

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

Matthew 22:37–39

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 →

Matthew 22:36–40

“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?” — read the full passage →

Jeremiah 31:3

Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you.

Song of Solomon 8:6

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.

Proverbs 3:3–4

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 →

1 John 3:1–24

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. — read the full passage →

1 Peter 5:6–7

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time; — read the full passage →

1 Peter 3:8

Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,

Philemon 1:7

For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

1 Thessalonians 4:9

But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

Colossians 2:1–23

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

Galatians 5:14

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

Romans 12:9–10

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good. — read the full passage →

Isaiah 54:10

For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed,” says Yahweh who has mercy on you.

Deuteronomy 7:9–10

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, — read the full passage →

Deuteronomy 6:5

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

1 John 4:9

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.

1 John 4:2

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,

1 John 3:11

For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

1 Peter 2:17

Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

1 Thessalonians 3:12

and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

Colossians 3:18–19

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →

Philippians 2:3

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

Ephesians 5:22–33

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:2

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

Ephesians 4:32

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

Ephesians 2:4

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

Galatians 5:13

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.

1 Corinthians 13:2

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.

1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Romans 8:35

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

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