Bible Verses about “selfless love”
The Bible contains 28 verses about selfless love 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;”
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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;”
“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."”
“each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.”
“Love doesn't harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.”
“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.”
“Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,”
“My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.”
“that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,”
“And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.”
“but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.”
“who, existing in the form of God, didn't consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,”
“Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name;”
“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.”
“even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."”
“It shall not be so among you, but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant.”
“Whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant,”