Bible Verses about “love yourself”
The Bible contains 28 verses about love yourself across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,”
“for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.”
“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 now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love.”
“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.”
“For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,”
“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.”
“holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.”
“But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.”
“traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;”
“without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,”
“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."”
“And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.”
“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.”
“"'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.”
“Jesus said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.'”
“A second likewise is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'”
“This is the first and great commandment.”
“Arise; for the matter belongs to you, and we are with you. Be courageous, and do it."”