80 Bible Verses about Agape Love

This is the law I give you: Have love one for another, even as I have love for you. Greater love has no man than this, that a man gives up his life for his friends.

Though the prophet's word may come to an end, tongues come to nothing, and knowledge have no more value, love has no end.

But a curse is on you, Pharisees! for you make men give a tenth of every sort of plant, and give no thought to right and the love of God; but it is right for you to do these things, and not let the others be undone.

But I have knowledge of you that you have no love for God in your hearts.

By this it will be clear to all men that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.

Even as the Father has given me his love, so I have given my love to you: be ever in my love.

If you keep my laws, you will be ever in my love, even as I have kept my Father's laws, and am ever in his love.

Greater love has no man than this, that a man gives up his life for his friends.

And I have given to them knowledge of your name, and will give it, so that the love which you have for me may be in them and I in them.

And hope does not put to shame; because our hearts are full of the love of God through the Holy Spirit which is given to us.

But God has made clear his love to us, in that, when we were still sinners, Christ gave his life for us.

Who will come between us and the love of Christ? Will trouble, or pain, or cruel acts, or the need of food or of clothing, or danger, or the sword?

Or things on high, or things under the earth, or anything which is made, will be able to come between us and the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Let love be without deceit. Be haters of what is evil; keep your minds fixed on what is good.

Love does no wrong to his neighbour, so love makes the law complete.

And if because of food your brother is troubled, then you are no longer going on in the way of love. Do not let your food be destruction to him for whom Christ went into death.

Now I make request to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that you will be working together with me in your prayers to God for me;

Because in Christ Jesus, having circumcision or not having circumcision are equally of no profit; but only faith working through love.

Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,

Even as he made selection of us in him from the first, so that we might be holy and free from all evil before him in love:

For this cause I, having had news of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and which you make clear to all the saints,

But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us,

So that Christ may have his place in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and based in love,

And to have knowledge of the love of Christ which is outside all knowledge, so that you may be made complete as God himself is complete.

With all gentle and quiet behaviour, taking whatever comes, putting up with one another in love;

But saying true words in love, may come to full growth in him, who is the head, even Christ;

Through whom all the body, being rightly formed and united together, by the full working of every part, is increased to the building up of itself in love.

And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.

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

After hearing of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have for all the saints,

And who, himself, made clear to us your love in the Spirit.

Who has made us free from the power of evil and given us a place in the kingdom of the Son of his love;

So that their hearts may be comforted, and that being joined together in love, they may come to the full wealth of the certain knowledge of the secret of God, even Christ,

And more than all, have love; the only way in which you may be completely joined together.

Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has given us good news of your faith and love, and that you have happy memories of us, desiring greatly to see us, even as we do to see you;

And the Lord give you increase of love in fullest measure to one another and to all men, even as our love to you;

But let us, who are of the day, be serious, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and on our heads, the hope of salvation.

And have a high opinion of them in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.

It is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, because of the great increase of your faith, and the wealth of your love for one another;

And with every deceit of wrongdoing among those whose fate is destruction; because they were quite without that love of the true faith by which they might have salvation.

And may your hearts be guided by the Lord into the love of God and quiet waiting for Christ.

But the effect of the order is love coming from a clean heart, and a knowledge of what is right, and true faith:

And the grace of our Lord was very great, with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

But if they go on in faith and love and holy self-control, she will be kept safe at the time of childbirth.

Let no one make little of you because you are young, but be an example to the church in word, in behaviour, in love, in faith, in holy living.

But you, O man of God, keep yourself from these things, and go after righteousness, religion, faith, love, a quiet mind, gentle behaviour.

For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of self-control.

Keep the form of those true words which you had from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

But keep yourself from those desires of the flesh which are strong when the body is young, and go after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those whose prayers go up to the Lord from a clean heart.

But you took as your example my teaching, behaviour, purpose, and faith; my long waiting, my love, my quiet undergoing of trouble;

Hearing of the love and the faith which you have to the Lord Jesus and to all the saints;

For I had great joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been made strong again through you, brother.

Still, because of love, in place of an order, I make a request to you, I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner of Christ Jesus:

And most of all be warm in your love for one another; because in love there is forgiveness for sins without number:

Give one another the kiss of love. Peace be to you all in Christ.

And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself.

But in every man who keeps his word, the love of God is made complete. By this we may be certain that we are in him:

Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

See what great love the Father has given us in naming us the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not see who we are, because it did not see who he was.

In this we see what love is, because he gave his life for us; and it is right for us to give our lives for the brothers.

But if a man has this world's goods, and sees that his brother is in need, and keeps his heart shut against his brother, how is it possible for the love of God to be in him?

My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.

He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love.

And the love of God was made clear to us when he sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him.

And this is love, not that we had love for God, but that he had love for us, and sent his Son to be an offering for our sins.

No man has ever seen God: if we have love for one another, God is in us and his love is made complete in us:

And we have seen and had faith in the love which God has for us. God is love, and everyone who has love is in God, and God is in him.

In this way love is made complete in us, so that we may be without fear on the day of judging, because as he is, so are we in this world.

There is no fear in love: true love has no room for fear, because where fear is, there is pain; and he who is not free from fear is not complete in love.

For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.

May grace, mercy, and peace be with us from God the Father, and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in all true love.

And love is the keeping of his laws. This is the law which was given to you from the first, so that you might keep it.

Who have given witness to the church of your love for them: and you will do well to send them on their way well cared for, as is right for servants of God:

May mercy and peace and love be increased in you.

These men are unseen rocks at your love-feasts, when they take part in them with you, keepers of sheep who without fear take the food of the sheep; clouds without water rushing before the wind, wasted trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots,

Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for life eternal through the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ.

But I have this against you, that you are turned away from your first love.

I have knowledge of your works, and your love and faith and help and strength in trouble, and that your last works are more than the first.