80 Bible Verses about Agape Love

"This is my commandment: that you love one another as I have loved you. No one shows greater love than when he lays down his life for his friends.

Love never fails. Now if there are prophecies, they will be done away with. If there are languages, they will cease. If there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

"How terrible it will be for you Pharisees! You give a tenth of your mint, spices, and every kind of herb, but you neglect justice and the love of God. These are the things you should have practiced, without neglecting the others.

I know that you do not have the love of God in you.

This is how everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."

Just as the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. So abide in my love.

If you keep my commandments, you'll abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

No one shows greater love than when he lays down his life for his friends.

I made your name known to them, and will continue to make it known, so that the love you have for me may be in them and I myself may be in them."

Now this hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.

But God demonstrates his love for us by the fact that the Messiah died for us while we were still sinners.

Who will separate us from the Messiah's love? Can trouble, distress, persecution, hunger, nakedness, danger, or a violent death do this?

nor anything above, nor anything below, nor anything else in all creation can separate us from the love of God that is ours in union with the Messiah Jesus, our Lord.

Your love must be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good.

Love never does anything that is harmful to its neighbor. Therefore, love is the fulfillment of the Law.

For if your brother is being hurt by what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not destroy the person for whom the Messiah died by what you eat.

Now I urge you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, and by the love that the Spirit produces, to join me in my struggle, earnestly praying to God for me

for in union with the Messiah Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision matters. What matters is faith expressed through love.

For you, brothers, were called to freedom. Only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity to gratify your flesh, but through love make it your habit to serve one another.

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

just as he chose us in the Messiah before the creation of the universe to be holy and blameless in his presence. In love

Therefore, because I have heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of his great love for us

and that the Messiah would make his home in your hearts through faith. Then, having been rooted and grounded in love,

that is, you will know the love of the Messiah which transcends knowledge, and will be filled with all the fullness of God.

demonstrating all expressions of humility, gentleness, and patience, accepting one another in love.

Instead, by speaking the truth in love, we will grow up completely and become one with the head, that is, one with the Messiah,

in whom the whole body is united and held together by every ligament with which it is supplied. As each individual part does its job, the body builds itself up in love.

Live lovingly, just as the Messiah also loved us and gave himself for us as an offering and sacrifice, a fragrant aroma to God.

May peace and love, with faith, be with the brothers, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus, the Messiah!

because we have heard about your faith in the Messiah Jesus and the love that you have for all the saints,

He has told us about your love in the Spirit.

God has rescued us from the power of darkness and has brought us into the kingdom of the Son whom he loves,

Because they are united in love, I pray that their hearts may be encouraged by all the riches that come from a complete understanding of the full knowledge of the Messiah, who is the mystery of God.

Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which ties everything together in unity.

In the presence of our God and Father, we constantly remember how your faith is active, your love is hard at work, and your hope in our Lord Jesus the Messiah is enduring.

But Timothy has just now returned from visiting you and has told us the good news about your faith and love. He also told us that you always have fond memories of us and want to see us, just as we want to see you.

May the Lord greatly increase your love for each other and for all people, just as we love you.

But since we belong to the day, let's be sober. We must put on the breastplate of faith and love, and the hope of salvation as a helmet.

Hold them in the highest regard, loving them because of their work. Live in peace with each other.

Brothers, at all times we are obligated to thank God for you. It is right to do this because your faith is growing all the time and the love every one of you has for each other is increasing.

and every type of evil to deceive those who are dying, those who refused to love the truth that would save them.

May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the endurance of the Messiah.

The goal of this instruction is love that flows from a pure heart, from a clear conscience, and from a sincere faith.

and the grace of our Lord overflowed toward me, along with the faith and love that are in the Messiah Jesus.

even though she will be saved through the birth of the Child, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, along with good judgment.

Do not let anyone look down on you because you are young, but be an example for other believers in your speech, behavior, love, faithfulness, and purity.

But you, man of God, must flee from all these things. Instead, you must pursue righteousness, godliness, faithfulness, love, endurance, and gentleness.

For God did not give us a spirit of timidity but one of power, love, and self-discipline.

Hold on to the pattern of healthy teachings that you have heard from me, along with the faith and love that are in the Messiah Jesus.

Flee from youthful passions. Instead, pursue righteousness, faithfulness, love, and peace together with those who call on the Lord with a pure heart.

But you have observed my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance,

because I keep hearing about your love for all the saints and the faith that you have in the Lord Jesus.

For I have received considerable joy and encouragement from your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed, brother, through you.

I prefer to make my appeal on the basis of love. I, Paul, as an old man and now a prisoner of the Messiah Jesus,

Above all, continue to love each other deeply, because love covers a multitude of sins.

Greet one another with a loving kiss. Peace be to all of you who are in the Messiah!

your godliness with brotherly kindness, and your brotherly kindness with love.

But whoever continually keeps his commandments is the kind of person in whom God's love has truly been perfected. This is how we can be sure that we are in union with God:

Stop loving the world and the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, the Father's love is not in him.

See what kind of love the Father has given us: We are called God's children and that is what we are! For this reason the world does not recognize us, because it did not recognize him, either.

This is how we have come to know love: the Messiah gave his life for us. We, too, ought to give our lives for our brothers.

Whoever has earthly possessions and notices a brother in need and yet withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God be present in him?

Dear friends, let us continuously love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born from God and knows God.

The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

This is how God's love was revealed among us: God sent his unique Son into the world so that we might live through him.

This is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us.

We have come to know and rely on the love that God has for us. God is love, and the person who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

This is how love has been perfected among us: we will have confidence on the day of judgment because, during our time in this world, we are just like him.

There is no fear where love exists. Rather, perfect love banishes fear, for fear involves punishment, and the person who lives in fear has not been perfected in love.

For this demonstrates our love for God: We keep his commandments, and his commandments are not difficult,

Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us from God the Father and from Jesus the Messiah, the Father's Son, in truth and love.

And this is what demonstrates love: that we live according to God's commandments. Just as you have heard from the beginning what he commanded, you must live by it.

They have testified before the church about your love. You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God.

May mercy, peace, and love be yours in abundance!

These people are stains on your love feasts. They feast with you without any sense of awe. They are shepherds who care only for themselves. They are waterless clouds blown about by the winds. They are autumn trees that are fruitless, totally dead, and uprooted.

Remain in God's love as you look for the mercy of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, which brings eternal life.

However, I have this against you: You have abandoned the love you had at first.

"I know what you've been doing your love, faithfulness, service, and endurance and that your last actions are greater than the first.