Bible Verses About Sacrificial Love

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

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 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.

Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.

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

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.

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

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.

And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it.

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

For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name’s sake.

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

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

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

Peter said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thy sake.

For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.

Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

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

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

He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

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.

For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;

He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.

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

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.

Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.

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

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

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

Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

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.

Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.

But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

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

But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.