Bible Verses About Virtues of Love

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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:

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;)

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

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

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.

Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.

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.

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

Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to 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 God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,

Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.

Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

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

But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;

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.

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.