Bible Verses about “love in the new testament”
The Bible contains 44 verses about love in the new testament 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 one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.”
“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.”
“doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;”
“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.”
“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.”
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,”
“But now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love.”
“"Don't judge, so that you won't be judged.”
“For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.”
“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.”
“but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.”
“If I dole out 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.”
“For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;”
“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.”
“For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.”
“gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.”
“Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?”
“If you love me, keep my commandments.”
“You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.”
“Or how will you tell your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye;' and behold, the beam is in your own eye?”
“"Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.”
“For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not give false testimony," "You shall not covet," and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."”
“Love doesn't harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.”
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.”
“But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,”
“Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”
“He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.”
“But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
“In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;”
“By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."”
“that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.”
“"Don't give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.”
“"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.'”
“For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don't even the tax collectors do the same?”
“If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don't even the tax collectors do the same?”
“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.”
“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.”
“Behold, 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.”
“For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."”
“He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me.”
“By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.”
“For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.”