What Does the Bible Say About Love Others?

1 John 4:11 ESV / 31 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 21 helpful votes

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

John 15:12 ESV / 17 helpful votes

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

1 John 4:8 ESV / 15 helpful votes

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

1 John 4:7 ESV / 15 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 / 12 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; ...

Matthew 22:37-39 ESV / 12 helpful votes

And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

John 3:16 ESV / 11 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.

1 John 3:17 ESV / 9 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?

Romans 13:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes

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

John 13:34 ESV / 8 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 4:16 ESV / 7 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.

1 Timothy 1:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes

The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.

John 15:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes

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

1 John 4:20 ESV / 6 helpful votes

If anyone says, “I love God,” 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 1:22 ESV / 6 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,

Romans 13:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

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

1 Thessalonians 3:12-13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you, so that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

John 13:35 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

Matthew 7:7-13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him! ...

1 John 4:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

We love because he first loved us.

1 John 4:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

1 John 3:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

1 Thessalonians 4:9 ESV / 3 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 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 3 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.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 3 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.

Romans 5:1-21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. ...

Matthew 22:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes

This is the great and first commandment.

Matthew 22:1-46 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And again Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son, and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come. Again he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “See, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast.”’ But they paid no attention and went off, one to his farm, another to his business, ...

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 3 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 Corinthians 13:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

1 Corinthians 13:1-3 ESV / 2 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.

Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. ...

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.

35 Bible Verses about Love Others

1 John 4:11 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 21 helpful votes

John 15:12 ESV / 17 helpful votes

1 John 4:8 ESV / 15 helpful votes

1 John 4:7 ESV / 15 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Matthew 22:37-39 ESV / 12 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 11 helpful votes

1 John 3:17 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Romans 13:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes

John 13:34 ESV / 8 helpful votes

1 John 4:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes

1 Timothy 1:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes

John 15:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes

1 John 4:20 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Peter 1:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Romans 13:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 3:12-13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

John 13:35 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Matthew 7:7-13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 John 4:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 4:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 3:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 4:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 5:1-21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 22:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 22:1-46 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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35 Bible Verses about Love Others

1 John 4:11 ESV / 31 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 15:12 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 22:37-39 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 3:17 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 13:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 13:34 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 4:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 1:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 15:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 4:20 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 1:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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1 Thessalonians 3:12-13 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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John 13:35 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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1 John 4:11 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 21 helpful votes

John 15:12 ESV / 17 helpful votes

1 John 4:8 ESV / 15 helpful votes

1 John 4:7 ESV / 15 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Matthew 22:37-39 ESV / 12 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 11 helpful votes

1 John 3:17 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Romans 13:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes

John 13:34 ESV / 8 helpful votes

1 John 4:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes

1 Timothy 1:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes

John 15:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes

1 John 4:20 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Peter 1:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Romans 13:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 3:12-13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

John 13:35 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Matthew 7:7-13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 John 4:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 4:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 3:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 4:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 5:1-21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 22:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 22:1-46 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes