10 Bible Verses about Love For The Church

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

Having purified your souls by obedience to the truth through the Spirit unto fraternal affection undissembled, love each other intensely out of a pure heart:

If therefore I have washed your feet, though the Lord and the Master; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that just as I have done to you, ye should do also.

And in the multitude of those that believed there was one heart and soul: and not one person said, that any part of his substance was his peculiar property; but all things were in common among them.

Our mouth is opened unto you, O Corinthians! our heart is enlarged.

Give us a favourable reception: we have injured no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man. I speak not for your condemnation, for I have already said, that ye are in our hearts to die and live together.

For God is my witness, how earnestly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

We know that we are passed out of [a state of] death into life, because we love the brethren: he that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh the measure of afflictions for Christ which remains to be endured for his body, which is the church,

But God commendeth his own love towards us, that, though we were yet sinners, Christ died in our stead.