Scripture offers an understanding of the source, character and value of love, based on the nature and actions of God. Passages gathered in the Dictionary of Bible Themes © 1999 Martin H. Manser, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
And may the Lord cause you to increase and overflow with love for one another and for everyone else, just as our love for you overflows,
And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.
Now I urge you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to join me in my struggle by praying to God for me.
The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: "I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.
With loving devotion You will lead the people You have redeemed; with Your strength You will guide them to Your holy dwelling.
Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: "The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,
O LORD God, do not reject Your anointed one. Remember Your loving devotion to Your servant David."
Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but loving devotion surrounds him who trusts in the LORD.
Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.
Let him who is wise pay heed to these things and consider the loving devotion of the LORD.
Though the mountains may be removed and the hills may be shaken, My loving devotion will not depart from you, and My covenant of peace will not be broken," says the LORD, who has compassion on you.
I will make known the LORD's loving devotion and His praiseworthy acts, because of all that the LORD has done for us— the many good things for the house of Israel according to His great compassion and loving devotion.
Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.
So I will betroth you to Me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in loving devotion and compassion.
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and remain in His love.
neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.
For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives."
Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.
He answered, "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind' and 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' "
Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him."
When they had finished eating, Jesus asked Simon Peter, "Simon son of John, do you love Me more than these?" "Yes, Lord," he answered, "You know I love You." Jesus replied, "Feed My lambs."
And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.
and continually recalling before our God and Father your work of faith, your labor of love, and your enduring hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.
Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorious joy,
For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,
Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
I am not making a demand, but I am testing the sincerity of your love in comparison to the earnestness of others.
For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.
with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight,
that they may be encouraged in heart, knit together in love, and filled with the full riches of complete understanding, so that they may know the mystery of God, namely Christ,
because I hear about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints.
The harm they will suffer is the wages of their wickedness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deception as they feast with you.
These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.
Woe to you Pharisees! You love the chief seats in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces.
And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.
because Demas, in his love of this world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs. Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed.
The goal of our instruction is the love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith.
Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.
There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been perfected in love.
If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him? Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.
Jesus replied, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.
But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
If your brother is distressed by what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother, for whom Christ died.
I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
This is how God's love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.
By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,
And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the very commandment you have heard from the beginning, that you must walk in love.
Beloved, you are faithful in what you are doing for the brothers, and especially since they are strangers to you. They have testified to the church about your love. You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God.
And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
Jesus declared, "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'
Jesus replied, "This is the most important: 'Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' No other commandment is greater than these."
The commandments "Do not commit adultery," "Do not murder," "Do not steal," "Do not covet," and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: "Love your neighbor as yourself." Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
But eagerly desire the greater gifts. And now I will show you the most excellent way.
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.
so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love, will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Whoever loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no cause of stumbling in him.