Bible Verses About The Nature of 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

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.

Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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

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

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.

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

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

But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

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

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.