Bible on Love

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

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

What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us?

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

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

And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.

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

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

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

The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

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.

I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,

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 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.

Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.

I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.

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

And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.

I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.

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

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

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

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

Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.

My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to death.

That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?

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

Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.

I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.

Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.

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

If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.

As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.

But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

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

And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the marketplaces,

I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!

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 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.

Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?

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:

Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone.

Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine.

Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

Let all your things be done with charity.

Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you.

If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:

Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.

I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.