Bible Verses About Love's Necessity

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

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

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

These things I command you, that ye 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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity.

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.

And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

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.

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.