10 Bible Verses about Love For The Church

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it,

Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth unto unfeigned brotherly love, love one another from the heart, fervently;

If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one anothers feet. For I have given you an example, that ye also should do as I have done to you.

And the multitude of those who believed were of one heart, and of one soul; and not one of them said that aught of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.

Our mouth is open to you, O Corinthians, our heart is enlarged.

Receive us into your hearts; we have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have defrauded no one. I am not saying this to condemn you; for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die with you and to live with you.

For God is my witness how much I long for you all in the tender affection of Christ Jesus.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren; he that loveth not abideth in death.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up instead that which is wanting of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh on behalf of his body, which is the church;

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.