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 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 now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love.”
“Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.”
“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.”
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.”
“Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”
“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.”
“He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.”
“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."”
“If a man says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn't love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?”
“And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.”
“"This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.”
“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.”
“We love him, because he first loved us.”
“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.”
“This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.”
“Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.”
“In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.”
“No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.”
“By this God's love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.”
“We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.”
“In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.”
“Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.”
“By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.”
“Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:”
“For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;”