Bible verses about "love" | BBE

¹² Hate is a cause of violent acts, but all errors are covered up by love.

³⁶ Master, which is the chief rule in the law? ³⁷ And he said to him, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. ³⁸ This is the first and greatest rule. ³⁹ And a second like it is this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself. ⁴⁰ On these two rules all the law and the prophets are based.

¹⁵ If you have love for me, you will keep my laws.

¹³ But now we still have faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

¹ If I make use of the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am like sounding brass, or a loud-tongued bell. ² And if I have a prophet's power, and have knowledge of all secret things; and if I have all faith, by which mountains may be moved from their place, but have not love, I am nothing. ³ And if I give all my goods to the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it is of no profit to me. ⁴ Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride; ⁵ Love's ways are ever fair, it takes no thought for itself; it is not quickly made angry, it takes no account of evil; ⁶ It takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, but has joy in what is true; ⁷ Love has the power of undergoing all things, having faith in all things, hoping all things. ⁸ Though the prophet's word may come to an end, tongues come to nothing, and knowledge have no more value, love has no end. ⁹ For our knowledge is only in part, and the prophet's word gives only a part of what is true: ¹⁰ But when that which is complete is come, then that which is in part will be no longer necessary. ¹¹ When I was a child, I made use of a child's language, I had a child's feelings and a child's thoughts: now that I am a man, I have put away the things of a child. ¹² For now we see things in a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now my knowledge is in part; then it will be complete, even as God's knowledge of me. ¹³ But now we still have faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

²⁵ Husbands, have love for your wives, even as Christ had love for the church, and gave himself for it;

⁸ And most of all be warm in your love for one another; because in love there is forgiveness for sins without number:

¹⁹ We have the power of loving, because he first had love for us.

¹⁸ There is no fear in love: true love has no room for fear, because where fear is, there is pain; and he who is not free from fear is not complete in love.

⁷ My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.

²⁹ Jesus said in answer, The first is, Give ear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord; ³⁰ And you are to have love for the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. ³¹ The second is this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself. There is no other law greater than these.

³⁴ I give you a new law: Have love one for another; even as I have had love for you, so are you to have love one for another. ³⁵ By this it will be clear to all men that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.

¹⁶ For God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life.

¹³ Greater love has no man than this, that a man gives up his life for his friends.

⁸ He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love.

¹⁴ And more than all, have love; the only way in which you may be completely joined together.

¹⁴ Let all you do be done in love.

⁴ Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride; ⁵ Love's ways are ever fair, it takes no thought for itself; it is not quickly made angry, it takes no account of evil; ⁶ It takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, but has joy in what is true; ⁷ Love has the power of undergoing all things, having faith in all things, hoping all things. ⁸ Though the prophet's word may come to an end, tongues come to nothing, and knowledge have no more value, love has no end.