Bible Verses About Love's Characteristics

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:

But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.

By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,

Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

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

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

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

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

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

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

And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

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

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

Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,

Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;

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

Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.

Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

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

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

(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)

No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints,

For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.