10/12/2021
What does the Bible say about
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Love One Another
John 13:34 ESV / 693 helpful votes
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
1 John 4:20 ESV / 442 helpful votes
If anyone says, âI love God,â 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.
1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 402 helpful votes
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
John 13:34-35 ESV / 355 helpful votes
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.â
Romans 12:10 ESV / 304 helpful votes
Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
1 John 4:7-10 ESV / 252 helpful votes
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1 John 4:11 ESV / 232 helpful votes
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Romans 13:8 ESV / 232 helpful votes
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
1 John 3:18 ESV / 199 helpful votes
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
John 15:12 ESV / 171 helpful votes
âThis is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
Galatians 5:13 ESV / 163 helpful votes
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
1 John 4:7 ESV / 156 helpful votes
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 144 helpful votes
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...
Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 141 helpful votes
You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
1 John 3:11 ESV / 139 helpful votes
For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
Luke 6:31 ESV / 136 helpful votes
And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.
Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 134 helpful votes
With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
John 13:35 ESV / 134 helpful votes
By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.â
Luke 6:35 ESV / 129 helpful votes
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.
John 3:16 ESV / 125 helpful votes
âFor God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
1 Peter 1:22 ESV / 124 helpful votes
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,
1 John 3:16 ESV / 120 helpful votes
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
1 John 3:17 ESV / 114 helpful votes
But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?
Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 114 helpful votes
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
John 15:13 ESV / 111 helpful votes
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
1 Thessalonians 4:9 ESV / 100 helpful votes
Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another,
1 Thessalonians 3:12 ESV / 97 helpful votes
And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you,
1 Corinthians 16:14 ESV / 96 helpful votes
Let all that you do be done in love.
1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 96 helpful votes
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 John 4:12 ESV / 94 helpful votes
No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
Deuteronomy 6:5 ESV / 94 helpful votes
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
Hebrews 10:24 ESV / 84 helpful votes
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,
1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 84 helpful votes
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
John 15:17 ESV / 82 helpful votes
These things I command you, so that you will love one another.
Mark 12:31 ESV / 80 helpful votes
The second is this: âYou shall love your neighbor as yourself.â There is no other commandment greater than these.â
Romans 13:10 ESV / 74 helpful votes
Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
1 Peter 3:8 ESV / 73 helpful votes
Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.
John 14:15 ESV / 72 helpful votes
âIf you love me, you will keep my commandments.
1 John 4:19 ESV / 70 helpful votes
We love because he first loved us.
1 John 4:1-21 ESV / 70 helpful votes
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. ...
1 John 3:23 ESV / 70 helpful votes
And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.
Romans 5:8 ESV / 70 helpful votes
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 69 helpful votes
Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.
Colossians 3:14 ESV / 65 helpful votes
And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
Ephesians 4:1-32 ESV / 65 helpful votes
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spiritâjust as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your callâ one Lord, one faith, one baptism, ...
2 John 1:5 ESV / 61 helpful votes
And now I ask you, dear ladyânot as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginningâthat we love one another.
Galatians 5:26 ESV / 60 helpful votes
Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
Romans 14:13 ESV / 59 helpful votes
Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.
1 John 3:14 ESV / 58 helpful votes
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death.
Romans 16:16 ESV / 58 helpful votes
Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.
Romans 12:16 ESV / 58 helpful votes
Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.
1 John 4:16 ESV / 56 helpful votes
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
Ephesians 4:2-3 ESV / 56 helpful votes
With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
1 John 5:3 ESV / 55 helpful votes
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.
1 John 4:21 ESV / 55 helpful votes
And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.
James 4:11 ESV / 55 helpful votes
Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
Philippians 2:3 ESV / 53 helpful votes
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 53 helpful votes
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 52 helpful votes
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 52 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Matthew 6:24 ESV / 52 helpful votes
âNo one can serve two masters, for 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 God and money.
Colossians 3:13 ESV / 51 helpful votes
Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
Romans 15:7 ESV / 51 helpful votes
Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.
John 13:14 ESV / 51 helpful votes
If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.
Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 51 helpful votes
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.
1 Peter 5:14 ESV / 50 helpful votes
Greet one another with the kiss of love. Peace to all of you who are in Christ.
James 5:9 ESV / 50 helpful votes
Do not grumble against one another, brothers, so that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the door.
James 5:16 ESV / 48 helpful votes
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
Hebrews 3:13 ESV / 46 helpful votes
But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called âtoday,â that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
1 Thessalonians 4:18 ESV / 46 helpful votes
Therefore encourage one another with these words.
Colossians 3:16 ESV / 45 helpful votes
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
Galatians 5:15 ESV / 45 helpful votes
But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.
Colossians 3:9 ESV / 44 helpful votes
Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices
Galatians 6:2 ESV / 44 helpful votes
Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
1 Corinthians 11:33 ESV / 43 helpful votes
So then, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one anotherâ
John 15:12-13 ESV / 43 helpful votes
âThis is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 43 helpful votes
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
1 John 3:1 ESV / 42 helpful votes
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 42 helpful votes
Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for âGod opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.â
1 Peter 4:9 ESV / 42 helpful votes
Show hospitality to one another without grumbling.
Romans 15:14 ESV / 42 helpful votes
I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another.
Matthew 7:12 ESV / 41 helpful votes
âSo whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
1 Thessalonians 5:15 ESV / 40 helpful votes
See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone.
Hebrews 10:25 ESV / 39 helpful votes
Not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
John 15:9 ESV / 39 helpful votes
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.
1 Thessalonians 1:3 ESV / 38 helpful votes
Remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Luke 3:11 ESV / 38 helpful votes
And he answered them, âWhoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise.â
John 14:1-31 ESV / 37 helpful votes
âLet not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.â Thomas said to him, âLord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?â ...
Hebrews 13:1 ESV / 36 helpful votes
Let brotherly love continue.
1 Timothy 1:5 ESV / 36 helpful votes
The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
Deuteronomy 7:9 ESV / 36 helpful votes
Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,
Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 35 helpful votes
However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Ephesians 5:19 ESV / 35 helpful votes
Addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart,
1 Corinthians 16:20 ESV / 35 helpful votes
All the brothers send you greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss.
Matthew 5:41 ESV / 35 helpful votes
And if anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.
2 Corinthians 13:12 ESV / 34 helpful votes
Greet one another with a holy kiss.
Isaiah 43:4-28 ESV / 33 helpful votes
Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you, I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life. Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east, and from the west I will gather you. I will say to the north, Give up, and to the south, Do not withhold; bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth, everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.â Bring out the people who are blind, yet have eyes, who are deaf, yet have ears! ...
1 Peter 2:17 ESV / 32 helpful votes
Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.
2 Thessalonians 1:3 ESV / 31 helpful votes
We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.
1 Corinthians 12:25 ESV / 31 helpful votes
That there may be no division in the body, but that the members y have the same care for one another.