100 Bible Verses about Appreciating One Another

John 13:34-35 ESV / 152 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.”

John 15:13 ESV / 148 helpful votes

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 136 helpful votes

Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

1 John 4:8 ESV / 118 helpful votes

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 118 helpful votes

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

1 John 4:19 ESV / 106 helpful votes

We love because he first loved us.

Numbers 6:24-26 ESV / 80 helpful votes

The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.

2 Samuel 2:6 ESV / 78 helpful votes

Now may the Lord show steadfast love and faithfulness to you. And I will do good to you because you have done this thing.

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 73 helpful votes

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

Hebrews 3:13 ESV / 70 helpful votes

But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

1 Corinthians 1:4 ESV / 70 helpful votes

I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus,

1 John 4:16 ESV / 69 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.

Colossians 3:16 ESV / 69 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.

John 15:12 ESV / 65 helpful votes

“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

Romans 12:10 ESV / 64 helpful votes

Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 63 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.

Ephesians 4:25 ESV / 60 helpful votes

Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

Ruth 2:12 ESV / 60 helpful votes

The Lord repay you for what you have done, and a full reward be given you by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge!”

1 Timothy 2:1-15 ESV / 57 helpful votes

First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, ...

1 Thessalonians 1:2 ESV / 56 helpful votes

We give thanks to God always for all of you, constantly mentioning you in our prayers,

John 15:5 ESV / 55 helpful votes

I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Luke 6:41-42 ESV / 54 helpful votes

Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother's eye.

Luke 17:1-37 ESV / 53 helpful votes

And he said to his disciples, “Temptations to sin are sure to come, but woe to the one through whom they come! It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin. Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him, and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.” The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” ...

1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 51 helpful votes

But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,

2 Corinthians 10:5 ESV / 51 helpful votes

We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,

John 13:34 ESV / 51 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.

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 48 helpful votes

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 48 helpful votes

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

1 John 4:11 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

1 John 4:7 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

John 3:16 ESV / 47 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Psalm 100:4 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name!

1 Timothy 5:17 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching.

Mark 9:7 ESV / 45 helpful votes

And a cloud overshadowed them, and a voice came out of the cloud, “This is my beloved Son; listen to him.”

Mark 12:29-30 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

Romans 14:13 ESV / 43 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.

2 Corinthians 9:10-11 ESV / 42 helpful votes

He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness. You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God.

Romans 13:8 ESV / 42 helpful votes

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 41 helpful votes

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

Galatians 5:13 ESV / 41 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.

John 13:35 ESV / 41 helpful votes

By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

1 John 3:11 ESV / 40 helpful votes

For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

Colossians 3:13 ESV / 40 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 12:16 ESV / 40 helpful votes

Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.

Romans 15:7 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.

Psalm 69:30 ESV / 38 helpful votes

I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him with thanksgiving.

Romans 16:16 ESV / 37 helpful votes

Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.

Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 37 helpful votes

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

James 4:11 ESV / 36 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 1:3 ESV / 36 helpful votes

I thank my God in all my remembrance of you,

John 13:14 ESV / 36 helpful votes

If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.

Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 35 helpful votes

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

1 Thessalonians 4:9 ESV / 35 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,

Colossians 3:17 ESV / 35 helpful votes

And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 35 helpful votes

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Psalm 115:14-15 ESV / 35 helpful votes

May the Lord give you increase, you and your children! May you be blessed by the Lord, who made heaven and earth!

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 34 helpful votes

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. ...

Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Ephesians 5:19 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart,

Galatians 6:2 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 32 helpful votes

Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

1 Peter 1:22 ESV / 32 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,

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 32 helpful votes

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

1 Thessalonians 3:12 ESV / 31 helpful votes

And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you,

Matthew 18:21-22 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times.

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

James 5:16 ESV / 30 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.

1 Thessalonians 4:18 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Therefore encourage one another with these words.

Colossians 3:15 ESV / 30 helpful votes

And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.

Colossians 3:9 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

1 John 3:23 ESV / 29 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.

1 Peter 4:9 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Show hospitality to one another without grumbling.

1 Thessalonians 5:15 ESV / 29 helpful votes

See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone.

Galatians 5:26 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

2 Corinthians 9:11 ESV / 29 helpful votes

You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God.

Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

2 Timothy 1:3 ESV / 28 helpful votes

I thank God whom I serve, as did my ancestors, with a clear conscience, as I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day.

1 Corinthians 11:33 ESV / 28 helpful votes

So then, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another—

Romans 13:10 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

John 14:6 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

James 5:9 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Do not grumble against one another, brothers, so that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the door.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 26 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Galatians 5:15 ESV / 26 helpful votes

But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.

John 15:17 ESV / 26 helpful votes

These things I command you, so that you will love one another.

1 Peter 5:14 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Greet one another with the kiss of love. Peace to all of you who are in Christ.

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, ...

2 Corinthians 13:12 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Greet one another with a holy kiss.

1 Corinthians 16:20 ESV / 25 helpful votes

All the brothers send you greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss.

1 Corinthians 1:10 ESV / 25 helpful votes

I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 25 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Proverbs 22:11 ESV / 25 helpful votes

He who loves purity of heart, and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend.

Ruth 1:8 ESV / 25 helpful votes

But Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each of you to her mother's house. May the Lord deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 24 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Romans 15:5 ESV / 23 helpful votes

May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,

Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.

Ephesians 4:31 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

Matthew 22:39 ESV / 22 helpful votes

And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

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