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100 Bible Verses about Loving Yourself

Song of Solomon 4:7 ESV / 643 helpful votes

You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you.

Proverbs 19:8 ESV / 619 helpful votes

Whoever gets sense loves his own soul; he who keeps understanding will discover good.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 467 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.

Psalm 139:13-15 ESV / 372 helpful votes

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.

Ephesians 5:29 ESV / 370 helpful votes

For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,

1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 299 helpful votes

Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

1 John 3:1 ESV / 284 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.

Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 270 helpful votes

Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 242 helpful votes

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

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 213 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.

Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 205 helpful votes

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Luke 6:27 ESV / 203 helpful votes

“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 200 helpful votes

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Psalm 37:1-40 ESV / 186 helpful votes

Of David. Fret not yourself because of evildoers; be not envious of wrongdoers! For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb. Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act. ...

Mark 12:31 ESV / 155 helpful votes

The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Romans 8:26 ESV / 145 helpful votes

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.

John 13:34-35 ESV / 136 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.”

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 128 helpful votes

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

1 John 4:19 ESV / 127 helpful votes

We love because he first loved us.

Romans 13:9 ESV / 119 helpful votes

For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Romans 5:8 ESV / 117 helpful votes

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

John 15:9 ESV / 111 helpful votes

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 104 helpful votes

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

Philippians 4:8-9 ESV / 99 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. What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

Matthew 22:39 ESV / 94 helpful votes

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

2 Timothy 3:1-2 ESV / 92 helpful votes

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

Matthew 22:37-39 ESV / 92 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.

1 John 4:7 ESV / 91 helpful votes

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

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 90 helpful votes

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

Matthew 19:19 ESV / 88 helpful votes

Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Psalm 139:14 ESV / 88 helpful votes

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

1 John 4:8 ESV / 82 helpful votes

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

John 3:16 ESV / 82 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.

Romans 12:10 ESV / 81 helpful votes

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

Colossians 3:14 ESV / 80 helpful votes

And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

1 John 3:18 ESV / 78 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 78 helpful votes

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

1 John 4:18 ESV / 77 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.

John 15:13 ESV / 77 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 77 helpful votes

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 75 helpful votes

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

John 13:34 ESV / 75 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 Corinthians 16:14 ESV / 74 helpful votes

Let all that you do be done in love.

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 72 helpful votes

However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Ephesians 2:4-5 ESV / 71 helpful votes

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

James 2:8 ESV / 70 helpful votes

If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 67 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; ...

Philippians 1:6 ESV / 66 helpful votes

And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.

Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 65 helpful votes

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

Galatians 5:14 ESV / 63 helpful votes

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Luke 10:27 ESV / 62 helpful votes

And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”

Romans 13:8 ESV / 59 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 58 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.

1 John 4:7-8 ESV / 54 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.

Psalm 36:7 ESV / 53 helpful votes

How precious is your steadfast love, O God! The children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 52 helpful votes

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

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 50 helpful votes

“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Jeremiah 31:3 ESV / 50 helpful votes

The Lord appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 49 helpful votes

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

Romans 13:10 ESV / 49 helpful votes

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

Luke 6:31 ESV / 49 helpful votes

And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.

John 5:30 ESV / 48 helpful votes

“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

Luke 12:7 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.

John 14:6 ESV / 46 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.

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Matthew 22:40 ESV / 41 helpful votes

On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 41 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

1 John 4:9-10 ESV / 40 helpful votes

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 3:14 ESV / 40 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.

1 Corinthians 13:3 ESV / 40 helpful votes

If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Isaiah 43:1-28 ESV / 40 helpful votes

But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in exchange for you. 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. ...

Hebrews 12:1 ESV / 39 helpful votes

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 39 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.

Galatians 6:3 ESV / 38 helpful votes

For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Galatians 5:26 ESV / 38 helpful votes

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

Luke 6:35 ESV / 38 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.

1 John 4:16 ESV / 37 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 Peter 2:17 ESV / 37 helpful votes

Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 37 helpful votes

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 37 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. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Matthew 16:24 ESV / 37 helpful votes

Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

Deuteronomy 6:5 ESV / 37 helpful votes

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

Ephesians 4:1-2 ESV / 35 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,

Romans 12:9 ESV / 35 helpful votes

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

1 John 3:16 ESV / 34 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 4:21 ESV / 33 helpful votes

And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.

Colossians 3:18 ESV / 32 helpful votes

Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Mark 12:30-31 ESV / 32 helpful votes

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.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

1 John 4:20 ESV / 31 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.

Leviticus 19:34 ESV / 31 helpful votes

You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

2 Timothy 3:1-5 ESV / 29 helpful votes

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.

John 14:15 ESV / 29 helpful votes

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

Proverbs 3:3-4 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man.

1 Corinthians 13:1-3 ESV / 27 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.

Isaiah 43:25 ESV / 24 helpful votes

“I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.

Song of Solomon 8:6-7 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised.

2 Corinthians 10:3-5 ESV / 23 helpful votes

For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,

John 3:17 ESV / 23 helpful votes

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Matthew 22:34-40 ESV / 22 helpful votes

But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 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. ...

1 John 2:3-5 ESV / 20 helpful votes

And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him:

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