10 Bible Verses about Love For The Church

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for her;

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for sincere brotherly love, love one another fervently from the heart,

If then I--[your] Lord and Teacher--wash your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that just as I have done for you, you also do.

Now the group of those who believed were one heart and soul, and no one said anything of what belonged to him was his own, but all [things] were theirs in common.

{We have spoken freely and openly} to you, Corinthians; our heart is open wide.

{Make room for us in your hearts}. We have wronged no one, we have ruined no one, we have defrauded no one. I do not say [this] {to condemn you}, because I have already said that you are in our hearts, so that we die together and we live together.

For God [is] my witness, that I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.

We know that we have passed over from death to life because we love the brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings on behalf of you, and I fill up in my flesh what is lacking of the afflictions of Christ, on behalf of his body which is the church,

but God demonstrates his own love for us, [in] that [while] we were still sinners, Christ died for us.