Bible verses about "love" | Darby

¹² Hatred stirreth up strifes; but love covereth all transgressions.

³⁶ Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law? ³⁷ And he said to him, Thou shalt love [the] Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy understanding. ³⁸ This is [the] great and first commandment. ³⁹ And [the] second is like it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. ⁴⁰ On these two commandments the whole law and the prophets hang.

¹⁵ If ye love me, keep my commandments.

⁸ but before all things having fervent love among yourselves, because love covers a multitude of sins;

¹³ And now abide faith, hope, love; these three things; and the greater of these [is] love.

¹ If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. ² And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ³ And if I shall dole out all my goods in food, and if I deliver up my body that I may be burned, but have not love, I profit nothing. ⁴ Love has long patience, is kind; love is not emulous [of others]; love is not insolent and rash, is not puffed up, ⁵ does not behave in an unseemly manner, does not seek what is its own, is not quickly provoked, does not impute evil, ⁶ does not rejoice at iniquity but rejoices with the truth, ⁷ bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. ⁸ Love never fails; but whether prophecies, they shall be done away; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall be done away. ⁹ For we know in part, and we prophesy in part: ¹⁰ but when that which is perfect has come, that which is in part shall be done away. ¹¹ When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I reasoned as a child; when I became a man, I had done with what belonged to the child. ¹² For we see now through a dim window obscurely, but then face to face; now I know partially, but then I shall know according as I also have been known. ¹³ And now abide faith, hope, love; these three things; and the greater of these [is] love.

²⁵ Husbands, love your own wives, even as the Christ also loved the assembly, and has delivered himself up for it,

¹⁹ *We* love because *he* has first loved us.

¹⁸ There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has torment, and he that fears has not been made perfect in love.

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another; because love is of God, and every one that loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.

¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believes on him may not perish, but have life eternal.

²⁹ And Jesus answered him, [The] first commandment of all [is], Hear, Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord; ³⁰ and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding, and with all thy strength. This is [the] first commandment. ³¹ And a second like it [is] this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is not another commandment greater than these.

³⁴ A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. ³⁵ By this shall all know that ye are disciples of mine, if ye have love amongst yourselves.

¹³ No one has greater love than this, that one should lay down his life for his friends.

¹⁴ And to all these [add] love, which is the bond of perfectness.

⁸ He that loves not has not known God; for God is love.

¹⁴ Let all things ye do be done in love.

⁴ Love has long patience, is kind; love is not emulous [of others]; love is not insolent and rash, is not puffed up, ⁵ does not behave in an unseemly manner, does not seek what is its own, is not quickly provoked, does not impute evil, ⁶ does not rejoice at iniquity but rejoices with the truth, ⁷ bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. ⁸ Love never fails; but whether prophecies, they shall be done away; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall be done away.