Bible Verses About Love as Virtue

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

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

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

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

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:

My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

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

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.

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

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

Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

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

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

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

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

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

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

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.

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

And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

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

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

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

And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

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

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

I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.

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

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.

But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

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

And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.

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

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.

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

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