Bible Verses About Love: What God Says About Love
God is love and calls us to love others
The New Testament's central statement is about love: "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son" (John 3:16). The entire Christian gospel is a love story. But the Bible distinguishes sharply between the love it describes and what the word ordinarily means in culture. The Greek language used in the New Testament has multiple words for love — eros (romantic), philia (friendship), and agape (unconditional, self-giving love). It is agape that defines God's character and commands of Christians.
Genesis 2:24
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
Read commentary →Deuteronomy 4:37
Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;
Read commentary →Deuteronomy 7:7
The Lord did not set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:
Read commentary →Deuteronomy 7:9
Know therefore that the Lord your God, he is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
Read commentary →Deuteronomy 7:12
It shall happen, because you listen to these ordinances, and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the loving kindness which he swore to your fathers:
Read commentary →Deuteronomy 7:13
and he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you; he will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.
Read commentary →Joshua 2:12
Now therefore, please swear to me by the Lord, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father's house, and give me a true token;
Read commentary →Joshua 2:14
The men said to her, "Our life for yours, if you do not talk about this business of ours; and it shall be, when the Lord gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you."
Read commentary →Ruth 1:8
Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go, return each of you to her mother's house: the Lord deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead, and with me.
Read commentary →Ruth 2:20
Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, "Blessed be he of the Lord, who has not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead." Naomi said to her, "The man is a close relative to us, one of our near kinsmen."
Read commentary →Ruth 3:10
He said, "Blessed are you by the Lord, my daughter. You have shown more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as you didn't follow young men, whether poor or rich.
Read commentary →Ruth 4:15
He shall be to you a restorer of life, and sustain you in your old age, for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has borne him."
Read commentary →1 Kings 2:7
But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of those who eat at your table; for so they came to me when I fled from Absalom your brother.
Read commentary →1 Kings 3:6
Solomon said, "You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, according as he walked before you in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you. You have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
Read commentary →1 Kings 3:3
Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
Read commentary →1 Kings 5:15
Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains;
Read commentary →2 Chronicles 1:8
Solomon said to God, "You have shown great loving kindness to David my father, and have made me king in his place.
Read commentary →2 Chronicles 6:14
and he said, "Lord, God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven, or on earth; you who keep covenant and loving kindness with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart;
Read commentary →2 Chronicles 6:42
"Lord God, do not turn away the face of your anointed. Remember your loving kindnesses to David your servant."
Read commentary →2 Chronicles 7:3
All the children of Israel looked on, when the fire came down, and the glory of the Lord was on the house; and they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground on the pavement, and worshiped, and gave thanks to the Lord, saying, "For he is good; for his loving kindness endures for ever."
Read commentary →2 Chronicles 7:6
The priests stood, according to their positions; the Levites also with instruments of music of the Lord, which David the king had made to give thanks to the Lord, when David praised by their ministry, saying "For his loving kindness endures for ever." The priests sounded trumpets before them; and all Israel stood.
Read commentary →Ezra 3:11
They sang to one another in praising and giving thanks to the Lord, "For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever toward Israel." All the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord had been laid.
Read commentary →Ezra 9:9
For we are bondservants; yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended loving kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
Read commentary →Nehemiah 9:32
Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, do not let all the travail seem little before you, that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.
Read commentary →Esther 2:9
The maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness from him. He quickly gave her cosmetics and her portions of food, and the seven choice maidens who were to be given her out of the king's house. He moved her and her maidens to the best place in the women's house.
Read commentary →Esther 2:17
The king loved Esther more than all the women, and she obtained favor and kindness in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown on her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.
Read commentary →Esther 5:10
Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and went home. There, he sent and called for his friends and Zeresh his wife.
Read commentary →Esther 5:14
Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, "Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet." This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.
Read commentary →Esther 6:13
Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, "If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him, but you will surely fall before him."
Read commentary →Psalms 4:3
But know that the Lord has set apart for himself him who is godly: The Lord will hear when I call to him.
Read commentary →Psalms 5:8
Lead me, Lord, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face.
Read commentary →Psalms 5:12
For you will bless the righteous. Lord, you will surround him with favor as with a shield.
Read commentary →Psalms 6:5
For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?
Read commentary →Proverbs 3:3
Do not let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
Read commentary →Proverbs 4:3
For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.
Read commentary →Proverbs 4:6
Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.
Read commentary →Proverbs 4:21
Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart.
Read commentary →Proverbs 4:27
Do not turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.
Read commentary →Proverbs 5:1
My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding:
Read commentary →Proverbs 7:18
Come, let's take our fill of loving until the morning. Let's solace ourselves with loving.
Read commentary →Proverbs 8:8
All the words of my mouth are in righteousness. There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.
Read commentary →Proverbs 8:9
They are all plain to him who understands, right to those who find knowledge.
Read commentary →Proverbs 8:13
The fear of the Lord is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.
Read commentary →Proverbs 8:17
I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.
Read commentary →Proverbs 8:24
When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water.
Read commentary →Proverbs 8:35
For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favor from the Lord.
Read commentary →Proverbs 8:36
But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death."
Read commentary →Proverbs 9:8
Do not reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise man, and he will love you.
Read commentary →Ecclesiastes 5:9
Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.
Read commentary →Ecclesiastes 5:10
He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.
Read commentary →Ecclesiastes 9:6
Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.
Read commentary →Ecclesiastes 9:9
Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.
Read commentary →Song of Solomon 1:2
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love is better than wine.
Read commentary →Song of Solomon 1:3
Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured forth, therefore the virgins love you.
Read commentary →Song of Solomon 1:4
Take me away with you. Let us hurry. The king has brought me into his chambers. Friends We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! Beloved They are right to love you.
Read commentary →Song of Solomon 1:7
Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon; For why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions? Lover
Read commentary →Song of Solomon 1:9
I have compared you, my love, to a steed in Pharaoh's chariots.
Read commentary →Song of Solomon 1:13
My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh, that lies between my breasts.
Read commentary →Song of Solomon 1:14
My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms from the vineyards of En Gedi. Lover
Read commentary →Song of Solomon 1:15
Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves. Beloved
Read commentary →Song of Solomon 1:16
Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, yes, pleasant; and our couch is verdant. Lover
Read commentary →Song of Solomon 2:2
As a lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. Beloved
Read commentary →Song of Solomon 2:3
As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Read commentary →Song of Solomon 2:8
The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills.
Read commentary →Song of Solomon 2:9
My beloved is like a roe or a young hart. Behold, he stands behind our wall! He looks in at the windows. He glances through the lattice.
Read commentary →Song of Solomon 2:10
My beloved spoke, and said to me, "Rise up, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.
Read commentary →Song of Solomon 2:16
My beloved is mine, and I am his. He browses among the lilies.
Read commentary →Song of Solomon 2:17
Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be like a roe or a young hart on the mountains of Bether.
Read commentary →Song of Solomon 3:1
By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I did not find him.
Read commentary →Song of Solomon 3:2
I will get up now, and go about the city; in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I did not find him.
Read commentary →Song of Solomon 3:3
The watchmen who go about the city found me; "Have you seen him whom my soul loves?"
Read commentary →Song of Solomon 4:1
Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, that descend from Mount Gilead.
Read commentary →Song of Solomon 4:10
How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine! The fragrance of your perfumes than all manner of spices!
Read commentary →Song of Solomon 5:2
I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: "Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night."
Read commentary →Song of Solomon 5:5
I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the lock.
Read commentary →Song of Solomon 5:6
I opened to my beloved; but my beloved left; and had gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I did not find him. I called him, but he did not answer.
Read commentary →Song of Solomon 5:8
I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love. Friends
Read commentary →Song of Solomon 5:9
How is your beloved better than another beloved, you fairest among women? How is your beloved better than another beloved, that you do so adjure us? Beloved
Read commentary →Song of Solomon 5:16
His mouth is sweetness; yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, daughters of Jerusalem. Friends
Read commentary →Song of Solomon 6:1
Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you? Beloved
Read commentary →Song of Solomon 6:2
My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
Read commentary →Song of Solomon 6:3
I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine. He browses among the lilies,
Read commentary →Song of Solomon 6:4
You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with banners.
Read commentary →Song of Solomon 7:11
Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field. Let us lodge in the villages.
Read commentary →Song of Solomon 8:7
Many waters can't quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned. Friends
Read commentary →Song of Solomon 8:14
Come away, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices!
Read commentary →Isaiah 1:16
Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.
Read commentary →Isaiah 4:3
It will happen, that he who is left in Zion, and he who remains in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even everyone who is written among the living in Jerusalem;
Read commentary →Isaiah 5:1
Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
Read commentary →Isaiah 6:3
One called to another, and said, "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts! The whole earth is full of his glory!"
Read commentary →Isaiah 6:6
Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar.
Read commentary →Isaiah 7:15
He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
Read commentary →Isaiah 8:4
For before the child knows how to say, 'My father,' and, 'My mother,' the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away by the king of Assyria."
Read commentary →Isaiah 9:5
For all the armor of the armed man in the noisy battle, and the garments rolled in blood, will be for burning, fuel for the fire.
Read commentary →Isaiah 9:11
Therefore the Lord will set up on high against him the adversaries of Rezin, and will stir up his enemies,
Read commentary →Jeremiah 2:25
"Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst. But you said, 'It is in vain. No, for I have loved strangers, and I will go after them.'
Read commentary →Jeremiah 2:33
How well you prepare your way to seek love! Therefore you have taught even the wicked women your ways.
Read commentary →Jeremiah 9:23
Thus says the Lord, "Do not let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, do not let the rich man glory in his riches;
Read commentary →Lamentations 1:19
I called for my lovers, but they deceived me. My priests and my elders perished in the city, while they searched for food to refresh their souls.
Read commentary →Lamentations 3:22
The Lord's faithful love does not cease; his compassion does not fail.
Read commentary →Daniel 1:9
Now God gave Daniel favor and compassion in the sight of the prince of the eunuchs.
Read commentary →Hosea 2:7
She will follow after her lovers, but she won't overtake them; and she will seek them, but won't find them. Then she will say, 'I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.'
Read commentary →Hosea 2:9
Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my new wine in its season, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.
Read commentary →Hosea 2:10
Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of my hand.
Read commentary →Hosea 2:12
I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, about which she has said, 'These are my wages that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest,' and the animals of the field shall eat them.
Read commentary →Hosea 2:14
"Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.
Read commentary →Hosea 2:15
I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
Read commentary →Hosea 2:21
It will happen in that day, I will respond," says the Lord, "I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth;
Read commentary →Hosea 3:1
The Lord said to me, "Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins."
Read commentary →Hosea 4:1
Hear the word of the Lord, you children of Israel; for the Lord has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: "Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
Read commentary →Hosea 4:18
Their drink has become sour. They play the prostitute continually. Her rulers dearly love their shameful way.
Read commentary →Hosea 6:4
"Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Judah, what shall I do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew that disappears early.
Read commentary →Hosea 6:6
For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Read commentary →Hosea 9:1
Do not rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; for you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.
Read commentary →Hosea 9:10
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.
Read commentary →Joel 2:13
Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to the Lord, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.
Read commentary →Amos 5:15
Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that the Lord, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph."
Read commentary →Jonah 2:9
But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to the Lord."
Read commentary →Jonah 4:2
He prayed to the Lord, and said, "Please, Lord, wasn't this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.
Read commentary →Micah 7:18
Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn't retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
Read commentary →Micah 7:20
You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
Read commentary →Zechariah 7:9
"Thus has the Lord of hosts spoken, saying, 'Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.
Read commentary →Malachi 1:2
"I have loved you," says the Lord. Yet you say, "How have you loved us?" "Wasn't Esau Jacob's brother?" says the Lord, "Yet I loved Jacob;
Read commentary →Matthew 1:2
Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers,
Read commentary →Matthew 2:11
And they came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures, they offered to him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
Read commentary →Matthew 4:23
And he went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.
Read commentary →Matthew 5:6
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.
Read commentary →Matthew 5:23
"If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,
Read commentary →Matthew 5:43
"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.'
Read commentary →Matthew 5:44
But I tell you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you,
Read commentary →Matthew 5:46
For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
Read commentary →Matthew 6:1
"Be careful that you do not do your acts of charity before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
Read commentary →Matthew 6:10
Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Read commentary →Matthew 6:19
"Do not lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
Read commentary →Matthew 6:23
But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
Read commentary →Matthew 7:19
Every tree that does not grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.
Read commentary →Matthew 8:4
And Jesus said to him, "See that you tell nobody, but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them."
Read commentary →Matthew 9:3
And behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, "This man blasphemes."
Read commentary →Matthew 9:10
And it happened as he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.
Read commentary →Matthew 9:11
And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, "Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"
Read commentary →Matthew 9:13
But you go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners."
Read commentary →Matthew 9:30
And their eyes were opened. And Jesus strictly commanded them, saying, "See that no one knows about this."
Read commentary →Matthew 9:34
But the Pharisees said, "By the prince of the demons, he casts out demons."
Read commentary →Matthew 9:36
But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd.
Read commentary →Mark 1:38
He said to them, "Let us go somewhere else into the next towns, that I may proclaim there also, because I came out for this reason."
Read commentary →Mark 2:6
But there were some of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts,
Read commentary →Mark 2:20
But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then will they fast in those days.
Read commentary →Mark 3:4
He said to them, "Is it lawful on the Sabbath day to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?" But they were silent.
Read commentary →Mark 3:22
The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebul," and, "By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons."
Read commentary →Mark 4:2
Then he taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,
Read commentary →Mark 4:5
Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.
Read commentary →Mark 4:8
Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some brought forth thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much."
Read commentary →Mark 4:11
And he said to them, "To you has been given the mystery of the Kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,
Read commentary →Mark 4:16
These are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.
Read commentary →Mark 4:20
But those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times."
Read commentary →Mark 4:25
For whoever has, more will be given, and he who does not have, even that which he has will be taken away from him."
Read commentary →Mark 5:10
And he begged him much that he would not send them away out of the region.
Read commentary →Mark 6:33
But they saw them going, and many recognized him and ran there on foot from all the cities and they arrived before them.
Read commentary →Mark 6:34
And he came out, saw a great multitude, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.
Read commentary →Mark 7:1
Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem.
Read commentary →Mark 7:4
They do not eat when they come from the marketplace, unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, and bronze vessels.)
Read commentary →Mark 9:1
He said to them, "Truly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste death until they see the Kingdom of God come with power."
Read commentary →Mark 9:14
Coming to the disciples, he saw a great multitude around them, and scribes questioning them.
Read commentary →Mark 9:50
Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another."
Read commentary →Luke 1:32
He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father, David,
Read commentary →Luke 1:76
And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the Lord to make ready his ways,
Read commentary →Luke 2:9
Behold, an angel of the Lord stood by them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.
Read commentary →Luke 2:40
The child was growing, and was becoming strong, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.
Read commentary →Luke 2:49
He said to them, "Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?"
Read commentary →Luke 5:17
It happened on one of those days, that he was teaching; and there were Pharisees and teachers of the Law sitting by, who had come out of every village of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was with him to heal.
Read commentary →Luke 5:21
The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, "Who is this that speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?"
Read commentary →Luke 5:30
The Pharisees and their scribes murmured against his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?"
Read commentary →Luke 6:27
"But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
Read commentary →Luke 6:32
If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.
Read commentary →Luke 6:35
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.
Read commentary →Luke 6:44
For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.
Read commentary →Luke 6:45
The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.
Read commentary →Luke 7:26
But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a prophet.
Read commentary →Luke 7:37
Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining in the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster jar of ointment.
Read commentary →Luke 7:44
Turning to the woman, he said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I entered into your house, and you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears, and wiped them with her hair.
Read commentary →Luke 7:47
Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little."
Read commentary →Luke 8:6
Other seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it grew, it withered away, because it had no moisture.
Read commentary →Luke 8:10
He said, "To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God, but to the rest in parables; that 'seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.'
Read commentary →Luke 8:13
Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.
Read commentary →Luke 8:15
That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and bring forth fruit with patience.
Read commentary →Luke 8:18
Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever does not have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has."
Read commentary →Luke 8:21
But he answered them, "My mother and my brothers are these who hear the word of God, and do it."
Read commentary →Luke 9:11
But the multitudes, perceiving it, followed him. He welcomed them, and spoke to them of the Kingdom of God, and he cured those who needed healing.
Read commentary →Luke 9:27
But I tell you the truth: There are some of those who stand here, who will in no way taste of death, until they see the Kingdom of God."
Read commentary →Luke 9:35
A voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is my Son, my chosen. Listen to him!"
Read commentary →Luke 9:54
When his disciples, Jacob and John, saw this, they said, "Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky, and destroy them?"
Read commentary →John 2:8
He said to them, "Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler of the feast." So they took it.
Read commentary →John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Read commentary →John 3:21
But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God."
Read commentary →John 3:29
He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.
Read commentary →John 5:20
For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel.
Read commentary →John 5:24
"Truly, truly, I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
Read commentary →John 5:43
I have come in my Father's name, and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
Read commentary →John 6:27
Do not work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him."
Read commentary →John 6:37
All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. Him who comes to me I will in no way throw out.
Read commentary →John 6:40
This is the will of my Father who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day."
Read commentary →John 6:44
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.
Read commentary →John 6:45
It is written in the Prophets, 'They will all be taught by God.' Therefore everyone who hears from the Father, and has learned, comes to me.
Read commentary →John 6:51
I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."
Read commentary →John 6:54
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
Read commentary →John 6:65
He said, "For this cause have I said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by the Father."
Read commentary →John 7:28
Jesus therefore called out in the temple, teaching and saying, "You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you do not know.
Read commentary →John 7:38
He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water."
Read commentary →John 8:16
Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me.
Read commentary →John 8:26
I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world."
Read commentary →John 8:29
He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn't left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him."
Read commentary →John 8:33
They answered him, "We are Abraham's seed, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How can you say, 'You will be made free?'"
Read commentary →John 8:37
I know that you are Abraham's seed, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.
Read commentary →John 8:39
They answered him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.
Read commentary →John 8:40
But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this.
Read commentary →John 8:42
Therefore Jesus said to them, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I have not come of myself, but he sent me.
Read commentary →John 8:51
Truly, truly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death."
Read commentary →John 9:7
and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means "Sent"). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.
Read commentary →John 9:34
They answered him, "You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?" They threw him out.
Read commentary →John 9:39
Jesus said, "I came into this world for judgment, that those who do not see may see; and that those who see may become blind."
Read commentary →John 9:40
Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, "Are we also blind?"
Read commentary →Acts 2:3
Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and one sat on each of them.
Read commentary →Acts 9:31
So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.
Read commentary →Romans 1:26
For this reason, God abandoned them to their degrading passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.
Read commentary →Romans 5:8
But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Read commentary →Romans 8:35
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Read commentary →1 Corinthians 4:14
I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
Read commentary →1 Corinthians 4:17
Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every church.
Read commentary →1 Corinthians 4:21
What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
Read commentary →2 Corinthians 5:14
For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.
Read commentary →2 Corinthians 7:1
Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Read commentary →2 Corinthians 7:15
His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.
Read commentary →Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
Read commentary →Ephesians 2:4
But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
Read commentary →Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;
Read commentary →Ephesians 5:28
Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
Read commentary →Ephesians 5:33
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Read commentary →Ephesians 6:23
Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Read commentary →Ephesians 6:24
Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love.
Read commentary →Philippians 1:9
This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;
Read commentary →Philippians 2:12
So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Read commentary →Philippians 4:1
Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord, my beloved.
Read commentary →Colossians 1:4
having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have toward all the saints,
Read commentary →Colossians 2:2
that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, which is Christ,
Read commentary →Colossians 3:2
Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.
Read commentary →Colossians 3:12
Put on therefore, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
Read commentary →Colossians 3:14
Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
Read commentary →Colossians 4:7
All my affairs will be made known to you by Tychicus, the beloved brother, faithful servant, and fellow bondservant in the Lord.
Read commentary →Colossians 4:9
together with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will make known to you everything that is going on here.
Read commentary →1 Thessalonians 3:12
and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,
Read commentary →1 Thessalonians 4:9
But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,
Read commentary →2 Thessalonians 3:5
May the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ.
Read commentary →1 Timothy 1:5
but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and unfeigned faith;
Read commentary →1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Read commentary →2 Timothy 3:2
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
Read commentary →Titus 3:4
But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared,
Read commentary →Titus 3:15
All who are with me greet you. Greet those who love us in faith. Grace be with you all.
Read commentary →Philemon 1:7
For I have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.
Read commentary →Hebrews 1:9
You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows."
Read commentary →Hebrews 6:9
But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and things that accompany salvation, even though we speak like this.
Read commentary →James 1:19
This you know, my beloved brothers. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
Read commentary →1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Read commentary →1 Peter 3:10
For, "He who would love life, and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.
Read commentary →1 Peter 4:8
Above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
Read commentary →1 Peter 4:12
Beloved, do not be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.
Read commentary →1 Peter 5:14
Greet one another with a kiss of love. Peace be to you all who are in Christ.
Read commentary →2 Peter 3:1
This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you;
Read commentary →2 Peter 3:8
But do not forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Read commentary →2 Peter 3:14
Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without blemish and blameless in his sight.
Read commentary →2 Peter 3:17
You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.
Read commentary →1 John 2:5
But whoever keeps his word, God's love has truly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:
Read commentary →1 John 2:10
He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.
Read commentary →1 John 2:15
Do not love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love is not in him.
Read commentary →1 John 3:1
Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world does not know us, because it did not know him.
Read commentary →1 John 3:2
Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. We know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.
Read commentary →1 John 3:14
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who does not love remains in death.
Read commentary →1 John 3:16
By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
Read commentary →1 John 3:21
Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have boldness toward God;
Read commentary →1 John 4:1
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
Read commentary →1 John 4:7
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.
Read commentary →1 John 4:9
By this God's love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
Read commentary →1 John 4:10
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
Read commentary →1 John 4:11
Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
Read commentary →1 John 4:12
No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
Read commentary →1 John 4:16
We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
Read commentary →1 John 4:17
In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.
Read commentary →1 John 4:18
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.
Read commentary →1 John 4:20
If a man says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.
Read commentary →1 John 5:2
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments.
Read commentary →1 John 5:3
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
Read commentary →2 John 1:1
The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not I only, but also all those who know the truth;
Read commentary →2 John 1:6
This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
Read commentary →3 John 1:2
Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.
Read commentary →3 John 1:5
Beloved, you do a faithful work in whatever you accomplish for those who are brothers and strangers.
Read commentary →3 John 1:9
I wrote something to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, does not accept what we say.
Read commentary →3 John 1:11
Beloved, do not imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn't seen God.
Read commentary →Jude 1:3
Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
Read commentary →Jude 1:12
These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
Read commentary →Jude 1:17
But you, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Read commentary →Jude 1:20
But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.
Read commentary →Revelation 3:19
As many as I love, I rebuke and discipline. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
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What does 1 Corinthians 13 mean?
'Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud...' (1 Corinthians 13:4-8). This passage from Paul defines love not as a feeling but as a set of behaviors and dispositions. It was written in the context of a divided church to show that spiritual gifts without love are worthless. It is most commonly read at weddings but was originally a rebuke to a contentious community.
How does the Bible say to love others?
Jesus summarizes the entire Old Testament law in two commands: love God with all your heart, soul, and mind, and love your neighbor as yourself (Matthew 22:37-39). John 13:34-35 records Jesus commanding a 'new commandment' — to love one another as he has loved us, which is the standard of sacrificial, unconditional love rather than just mutual affection.