Bible Verses About Love as Essential

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.

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

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

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

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.

For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one 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.

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

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

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

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

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

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.

For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

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

That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

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

But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

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 this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.

And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

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

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

And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

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

For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

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

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

Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.

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

As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

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

From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

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

And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.