'Love' in the Bible

Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy:

but I say unto you, love your enemies, and pray for them that persecute you;

For if ye love them that love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?

And when ye pray, ye shall not be as the hypocrites: for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have received their reward.

No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Honor thy father and mother; and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

And he said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

And a second like unto it is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

and love the chief place at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,

And because iniquity shall be multiplied, the love of the many shall wax cold.

and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength.

The second is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is much more than all whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices.

But I say unto you that hear, Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you,

And if ye love them that love you, what thank have ye? for even sinners love those that love them.

But love your enemies, and do them good, and lend, never despairing; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be sons of the Most High: for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

When they had not wherewith to pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?

And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself.

But woe unto you Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and every herb, and pass over justice and the love of God: but these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

Woe unto you Pharisees! for ye love the chief seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the marketplaces.

No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in long robes, and love salutations in the marketplaces, and chief seats in the synagogues, and chief places at feasts;

But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in yourselves.

Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I came forth and am come from God; for neither have I come of myself, but he sent me.

Therefore doth the Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.

A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.

He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself unto him.

Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my word: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

but that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.

Even as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in my love.

If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

These things I command you, that ye may love one another.

If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

and I made known unto them thy name, and will make it known; that the love wherewith thou lovedst me may be in them, and I in them.

So when they had broken their fast, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon,'son of John, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs.

He saith to him again a second time, Simon,'son of John, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Tend my sheep.

He saith unto him the third time, Simon,'son of John, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.

and hope putteth not to shame; because the love of God hath been shed abroad in our hearts through the Holy Spirit which was given unto us.

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

And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another;

Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law.

For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not covet, and if there be any other commandment, it is summed up in this word, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: love therefore is the fulfilment of the law.

For if because of meat thy brother is grieved, thou walkest no longer in love. Destroy not with thy meat him for whom Christ died.

Now I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;

but as it is written, Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not, And which entered not into the heart of man, Whatsoever things God prepared for them that love him.

What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

And 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 have not love, I am nothing.

And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor , and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall be done away.

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

Follow after love; yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts , but rather that ye may prophesy.

Let all that ye do be done in love.

My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly unto you.

Wherefore I beseech you to confirm your love toward him.

For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died;

in pureness, in knowledge, in long suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,

But as ye abound in everything, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all earnestness, and in your love to us,'see that ye abound in this grace also.

I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

Show ye therefore unto them in the face of the churches the proof of your love, and of our glorying on your behalf.

Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfected; be comforted; be of the same mind; live in peace: and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.

For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:

For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which ye show toward all the saints,

but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God.

with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, even Christ;

from whom all the body fitly framed and knit together through that which every joint supplieth, according to the working in due measure of each several part, maketh the increase of the body unto the building up of itself in love.

and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.

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

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife'see that she fear her husband.

Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ with a love incorruptible.

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;

the one do it of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel;

If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassions,

make full my joy, that ye be of the same mind, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have toward all the saints,

who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.