79 Bible Verses about Agape Love

This is my command: you are to love one another as I have loved you. To lay life down for his friends, man has no greater love than that.

Love never disappears. As for prophesying, it will be superseded; as for 'tongues,' they will cease; as for knowledge, it will be superseded.

But woe to you Pharisees! you tithe mint and rue and every vegetable, but justice and the love of God you disregard; these latter you ought to have practised ??without omitting the former.

but I know there is no love to God in you;

By this everyone will recognize that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another."

As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; remain within my love.

If you keep my commands you will remain within my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain within his love.

To lay life down for his friends, man has no greater love than that.

so have I declared, so will I declare, thy Name to them, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them."

But God proves his love for us by this, that Christ died for us when we were still sinners.

What can ever part us from Christ's love? Can anguish or calamity or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or the sword?

no powers of the Height or of the Depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to part us from God's love in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Let your love be a real thing, with a loathing for evil and a bent for what is good.

Love never wrongs a neighbour; that is why love is the fulfilment of the law.

If your brother is being injured because you eat a certain food, then you are no longer living by the rule of love. Do not let that food of yours ruin the man for whom Christ died.

Brothers, I beg of you, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love that the Spirit inspires, rally round me by praying to God for me;

in Christ Jesus circumcision is not valid, neither is uncircumcision, but only faith active in love.

Brothers, you were called to be free; only, do not make your freedom an opening for the flesh, but serve one another in love.

But the harvest of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, good temper, kindliness, generosity, fidelity,

He chose us in him ere the world was founded, to be consecrated and unblemished in his sight,

Hence, as I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,

But, dead in trespasses as we were, God was so rich in mercy that for his great love to us

May Christ dwell in your hearts as you have faith!

by knowing the love of Christ which surpasses all knowledge! May you be filled with the entire fulness of God!

with perfect modesty and gentleness, showing forbearance to one another patiently, zealous in love

we are to hold by the truth, and by our love to grow up wholly into Him. For He, Christ, is the head, and under him,

as the entire Body is welded together and compacted by every joint with which it is supplied, the due activity of each part enables the Body to grow and build itself up in love.

and lead lives of love, just as Christ loved you and gave himself up for you to be a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Peace and love with faith be to the brothers from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

since we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and your love for all the saints,

and it is he who has informed us of your love in the Spirit.

rescuing us from the power of the Darkness and transferring us to the realm of his beloved Son!

May their hearts be encouraged! May they learn the meaning of love! May they have all the wealth of conviction that comes from insight! May they learn to know that open secret of God, the Father of Christ,

And above all you must be loving, for love is the link of the perfect life.

as we recall your active faith and labour of love and patient hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

But when Timotheus reached me a moment ago, on his return from you, bringing me the good news of your faith and love and of how you always remember me kindly, longing to see me as I long to see you,

And may the Lord make you increase and excel in love to one another and to all men (as is my love for you),

but we must be sober, we who belong to the day, clad in faith and love as our coat of mail, with the hope of salvation as our helmet ??9 for God destined us not for Wrath but to gain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

hold them in special esteem and affection, for the sake of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.

We are bound always to thank God for you, brothers ??it is proper that we should, because your faith grows apace and your mutual love, one and all, is increasing.

and with the full deceitfulness of evil for those who are doomed to perish, since they refuse to love the Truth that would save them.

May the Lord direct your hearts towards God's love and towards Christ's patience!

Whereas the aim of the Christian discipline is the love that springs from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from a sincere faith.

and the grace of our Lord flooded my life along with the faith and love that Christ Jesus inspires.

However, women will get safely through childbirth if they continue to be faithful and loving and holy as well as unassuming.

Let no one slight you because you are a youth, but set the believers an example of speech, behaviour, love, faith, and purity.

Shun that, O man of God, aim at integrity, piety, faith, love, stedfastness, and suavity;

for God has not given us a timid spirit but a spirit of power and love and discipline.

Model yourself on the sound instruction you have had from me in the faith and love of Christ Jesus.

So shun the lusts of youth and aim at integrity, faith, love and peace, in the company of those who invoke the Lord out of a pure heart.

Now you have followed my teaching, my practice, my aims, my faith, my patience, my love, my stedfastness,

for as I hear of your love and loyalty to the Lord Jesus and to all the saints,

I have had great joy and encouragement over your love, my brother, over the way you have refreshed the hearts of the saints.

I prefer to appeal to you on the ground of love. Well then, as Paul the old man, who now-a-days is a prisoner for Christ Jesus,

Above all, be keen to love one another, for love hides a host of sins.

Salute one another with a kiss of love. Peace be to you all who are in Christ [Jesus].

piety with brotherliness, brotherliness with Christian love.

but whoever obeys his word, in him love to God is really complete. This is how we may be sure we are in him:

Love not the world, nor yet what is in the world; if anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.

'Born of him!' Think what a love the Father has for us, in letting us be called 'children of God!' That is what we are. The world does not recognize us? That is simply because it did not recognize him.

We know what love is by this, that He laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for the brotherhood.

But whoever possesses this world's goods, and notices his brother in need, and shuts his heart against him, how can love to God remain in him?

Beloved, let us love one another, for love belongs to God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God;

he who does not love, does not know God, for God is love.

This is how the love of God has appeared for us, by God sending his only Son into the world, so that by him we might live.

Love lies in this, not in our love for him but in his love for us ??in the sending of his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

God no one has ever seen; but if we love one another, then God remains within us, and love for him is complete in us.

well, we do know, we have believed, the love God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

Love is complete with us when we have absolute confidence about the day of judgment, since in this world we are living as He lives.

Love has no dread in it; no, love in its fulness drives all dread away, for dread has to do with punishment ??anyone who has dread, has not reached the fulness of love.

(for love to God means keeping his commands). And his commands are not irksome,

grace, mercy, peace will be with us from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

To live by his commands, that is what love means: and the command is, live in love as you have learned to do from the very beginning.

they have testified to your love before the church. Pray speed them on their journey worthily of God;

mercy, peace and love be multiplied to you.

These people are stains on your love-feasts; they have no qualms about carousing in your midst, they look after none but themselves ??rainless clouds, swept along by the wind, trees in autumn without fruit, doubly dead and so uprooted,

so keeping yourselves within the love of God and waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that ends in life eternal.

But I have this against you: you have given up loving one another as you did at first.

I know your doings, your love and loyalty and service and patient endurance; I know you are doing more than you did at first.