1235 verses about Love

But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.

For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.

even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

When he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “Take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me.”

whereas our presentable parts have no such need. But God composed the body together, giving more abundant honor to the inferior part,

that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another.

When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. Or when one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

But earnestly desire the best gifts. Moreover, I show a most excellent way to you.

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 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.

If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

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

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

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

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.

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

Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

For you most certainly give thanks well, but the other person is not built up.

Let all that you do be done in love.

The assemblies of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla greet you much in the Lord, together with the assembly that is in their house.

All the brothers greet you. Greet one another with a holy kiss.

This greeting is by me, Paul, with my own hand.

If any man doesn’t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. Come, Lord!

My love to all of you in Christ Jesus. Amen.

who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.

Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him.

being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,

Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged.

You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.

Now in return, I speak as to my children, you also open your hearts.

I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before, that you are in our hearts to die together and live together.

But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.

I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

Therefore show the proof of your love to them before the assemblies, and of our boasting on your behalf.

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.

while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.

Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!

that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters.

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.

Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows.

For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?

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

Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.

For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. And this we also pray for, even your perfecting.

For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.

Finally, brothers, rejoice. Be perfected, be comforted, be of the same mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

Greet one another with a holy kiss.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ lives 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.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong,

What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.

My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—

but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

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.

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Leviticus 19:18

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

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

See with what large letters I write to you with my own hand.

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love;

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which you have toward all the saints,

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

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth,

and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

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

one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in us all.

until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;

from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

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

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

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.

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

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

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;

because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.

“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.” Genesis 2:24

This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

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

Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.