Bible Promises
LOVE
Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
Colossians 3:12-13If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.
1 Corinthians 13:1-8Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
Deuteronomy 6:5Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands.
Deuteronomy 7:9He will love you and bless you and increase your numbers. He will bless the fruit of your womb, the crops of your land – our grain new wine and oil – the calves of your hers and the lambs of your flocks in the land that he swore to your forefathers to give you. [God’s love]
Deuteronomy 7:13But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions – it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 2:4-7I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge – that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Ephesians 3:16-19Live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Ephesians 5:2Grace to all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.
Ephesians 6:24For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.
Galatians 5:6You were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love. The entire law is summed up in a single command: "Love your neighbor as yourself."
Galatians 5:13-14The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness.
Galatians 5:22As we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.
Galatians 6:10Keep on loving each other.
Hebrews 13:1"I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger has turned away from them."
Hosea 14:4"Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed," says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
Isaiah 54:10As a young man marries a maiden, so will your sons marry you, as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so will your God rejoice over you.
Isaiah 62:5If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, "Love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing right.
James 2:8The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: "I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness."
Jeremiah 31:3I will rejoice in doing them good and will assuredly plant them in this land with all my heart and soul.
Jeremiah 32:41God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16Jesus said, " A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."
John 13:34-35Whosoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him.
John 14:21Jesus said, "My command is this: Love each other as I have love you. Greater love has no one that this, that he lay down his life for his friends."
John 15:12,13Jesus said, "The Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God."
John 16:27I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
John 17:23"I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them."
John 17:26Whoever loves his brother lives in the light, and there is nothing in him to make him stumble.
1 John 2:10This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
1 John 3:16Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.
1 John 3:18Dear friends: Let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
1 John 4:7,8This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
1 John 4:10Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another. God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
1 John 4:11-12If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.
1 John 4:15-16There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear.
1 John 4:18We love because God first loved us.
1 John 4:19And Christ has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.
1 John 4:21Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance.
Jude 2Keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.
Jude 21Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself.
Leviticus 19:18The alien living with you must be treated as one of your native-born. Love him as yourself. I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 19:34Love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High.
Luke 6:35‘You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven.
Matthew 5:43-45Jesus replied: " ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hand on these two commandments."
Matthew 22:37-40The Lord is God, a refuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust in him.
Nahum 1:7Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart.
1 Peter 1:22All of you, live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, love as brothers, be compassionate and humble. Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.
1 Peter 3:8-9Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
1 Peter 4:8I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me.
Proverbs 8:17Bestowing wealth on those who love me and making their treasuries full.
Proverbs 8:21Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers over all wrongs.
Proverbs 10:12The Lord detests the way of the wicked but he loves those who pursue righteousness
Proverbs 15:9Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Psalm 37:4He sends from heaven and saves me, rebuking those who hotly pursue me; God sends his love and his faithfulness.
Psalm 57:3"Because he loves me," says the Lord, "I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name."
Psalm 91:14How good and pleasant it is when believers live together in unity!
Psalm 133:1The Lord watches over all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy.
Psalm 145:20The Lord gives sight to the blind, the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down, the Lord loves the righteous.
Psalm 146:8Neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:39Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves.
Romans 12:9-10So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, "May the Lord call David’s enemies to account." And Jonathan had David reaffirm his oath out of love for him, because he loved him as he loved himself.
1 Samuel 20:16-17May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you.
1 Thessalonians 3:12Now about brotherly love we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other.
1 Thessalonians 4:9May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope, encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good deed and word.
2 Thessalonians 2:16-17God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.
2 Timothy 1:7The Lord your God is with you, he is might to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.
Zephaniah 3:17What Jesus said about love
Follow this commandment. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
Deuteronomy 6:19God loves us. God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16God loves Jesus his son.
For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, to your amazement he will show him even greater things than these.
John 5:20
The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life – only to take it up again.
John 10:17Jesus loves God.
…but the world must learn that I love the Father and that I do exactly what my Father has commanded me.
John 14:31Those who refuse Jesus don’t have God’s love.
"I do not accept praise from men, but I know you. I know that you do not have the love of God in your hearts. I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him. How can you believe if you accept praise from one another, yet make no effort to obtain the praise that comes from the only God?
John 5:41–44Jesus loves us just as God loves Jesus
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.
John 15:9Jesus proved his love for us by dying on the cross so that we could live eternally with him.
No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven – the Son of Man. Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up.
John 3:14-15
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his live for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command.
John 15:13-14You love God when you obey him.
"Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him."
John 14:21
If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commands and remain in his love.
John 15:10Jesus’ love extends to each individual.
"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The hired hand is not the shepherd who owns the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. "I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me – just as the Father knows me and I know the father – and I lay down my life for the sheep.
John 10:11–15
But others said, "These are not he sayings of a man possessed by a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?"
Mark 10:21The love between God and Jesus is the perfect example of how we are to love others.
…that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. "Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. "Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them."
John 17: 21-26God wants everyone to know how much he loves them. I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
John 17:23Jesus wants our love to be genuine.
When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon son of John, do you truly love me more than these?" "Yes, Lord," he said, "you now that I love you." Jesus said, "Feed my lambs." Again Jesus said, "Simon son of John, do you truly love me?" He answered, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you." Jesus said, "Take care of my sheep." The third time he said to him, "Simon son of John, do you love me?" Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, "Do you love me?" He said, "Lord, you know all things, you know that I love you." Jesus said, "Feed my sheep.
John 21:15-17Follow this commandment. ‘Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself.’ I am the Lord
Leviticus 19:18God loves even those who hate him; we are to do the same. Love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High.
Luke 6:35God seeks out even those most alienated from him.
Luke 15We are not to love the praise of men (John 12:43)[for they loved praise from men more than praise from God.], selfish recognition (Matthew 23:6) [they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues], earthly belongings (Luke 16:19 – 21) ["There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores and longing to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.], or anything more than God.
"No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.
Luke 16:13Jesus tells which is the most important commandment to follow. One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, "Of all the commandments, which is the most important?"
"The most important one," answered Jesus, "is this: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our god, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your god with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these."
Mark 12:28–31We are to love one another (John 13:34,35) ["A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." and demonstrate that love.
And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.
Matthew 5: 40–42
And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is my disciple, I tell you the truth, he will certainly not lose his reward.
Matthew 10:42"You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Matthew 5:43–48God must be your first love.
No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.
Matthew 6:24
"Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me"
Matthew 10:37Because God loves us, he cares for us. "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass if the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Matthew 6:25-34We are to love God. Jesus replied: " ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hand on these two commandments."
Matthew 22:37–40Jesus wants us to love him through the good and through the difficult times.
Then Jesus told them, "This very night you will all fall away on account of me, for it is written: " ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’ But after I have risen, I will go ahead of you into Galilee." Peter replied, "Even if all fall away on account of you, I never will." "I tell you the truth," Jesus answered, "this very night, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times." But Peter declared, "Even if I have to die with you, I will never disown you." And all the other disciples said the same.
Matthew 26:31-35
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