Bible Verses about “loving one another”
The Bible contains 39 verses about loving one another across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“‹For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.›”
“¶ Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,”
“Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;”
“Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.”
“Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;”
“¶ Charity never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall fail; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall vanish away.”
“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”
“And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these [is] charity.”
“Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.”
“For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.”
“And though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.”
“But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.”
“And though I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.”
“For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.”
“¶ Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become [as] sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.”
“‹A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.›”
“‹Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.›”
“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.”
“He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.”
“[Be] kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;”
“‹By this shall all› [men] ‹know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.›”
“If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?”
“And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.”
“‹This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.›”
“¶ Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.”
“Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I [am] the LORD.”
“We love him, because he first loved us.”
“And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.”
“And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.”
“Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.”
“Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.”
“No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.”
“In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.”
“¶ And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son [to be] the Saviour of the world.”
“¶ Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.”
“Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.”
“Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.”
“Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, [see that ye] love one another with a pure heart fervently:”
“¶ For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.”