Bible Verses about “self love”
The Bible contains 32 verses about self love across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“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;”
“I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.”
“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.”
“For God didn't give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.”
“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.”
“Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.”
“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;”
“For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;”
“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.”
“doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;”
“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,”
“But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
“"This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.”
“Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.”
“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.'”
“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.”
“The second is like this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."”
“This is the first and great commandment.”
“But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore don't be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.”