Loving Others

Loving Others

 

John 13:34 ESV / 1,068 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 Peter 4:8 ESV / 657 helpful votes

 

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

1 John 4:11 ESV / 598 helpful votes

 

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

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 585 helpful votes

 

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

Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 582 helpful votes

 

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

1 John 4:19-21 ESV / 565 helpful votes

 

We love because he first loved us. 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. And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.

Matthew 5:43-48 ESV / 540 helpful votes

 

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? ...

John 3:16 ESV / 525 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 13:8 ESV / 518 helpful votes

 

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

Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 490 helpful votes

 

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

1 John 4:19 ESV / 480 helpful votes

 

We love because he first loved us.

1 Corinthians 16:14 ESV / 473 helpful votes

 

Let all that you do be done in love.

Philippians 2:3-4 ESV / 443 helpful votes

 

Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 440 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.

Colossians 3:14 ESV / 424 helpful votes

 

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

John 15:13 ESV / 423 helpful votes

 

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

1 John 4:7-8 ESV / 422 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.

1 John 4:16 ESV / 418 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.

Romans 12:10 ESV / 416 helpful votes

 

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

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 403 helpful votes

 

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

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 399 helpful votes

 

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

1 John 4:12 ESV / 395 helpful votes

 

No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

1 John 4:7-21 ESV / 385 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. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. ...

1 John 4:7 ESV / 379 helpful votes

 

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

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 379 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 4:8 ESV / 356 helpful votes

 

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

John 15:12 ESV / 355 helpful votes

 

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

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.”

1 John 4:18 ESV / 343 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.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 337 helpful votes

 

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

Galatians 5:14 ESV / 328 helpful votes

 

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

Proverbs 3:3-4 ESV / 327 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 13:4-7 ESV / 326 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.

Luke 6:35 ESV / 319 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 Corinthians 13:1 ESV / 318 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.

John 15:12-13 ESV / 317 helpful votes

 

“This 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.

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 308 helpful votes

 

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

1 John 4:10-11 ESV / 303 helpful votes

 

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

Romans 8:28 ESV / 300 helpful votes

 

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

1 John 4:20 ESV / 291 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.

John 13:35 ESV / 287 helpful votes

 

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

Micah 6:8 ESV / 285 helpful votes

 

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

1 Thessalonians 4:9 ESV / 281 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,

Luke 6:31 ESV / 281 helpful votes

 

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

James 2:14-17 ESV / 280 helpful votes

 

What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

Matthew 22:37-39 ESV / 278 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 4:21 ESV / 270 helpful votes

 

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

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 270 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; ...

Romans 12:9 ESV / 267 helpful votes

 

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

Ephesians 2:4-5 ESV / 256 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—

Galatians 5:13 ESV / 256 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 Corinthians 13:3 ESV / 254 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.

Matthew 22:39 ESV / 254 helpful votes

 

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

Mark 12:31 ESV / 250 helpful votes

 

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

1 Corinthians 13:8 ESV / 243 helpful votes

 

Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

Romans 12:9-10 ESV / 241 helpful votes

 

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

1 John 3:18 ESV / 240 helpful votes

 

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

1 Peter 1:22 ESV / 235 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,

Ephesians 4:2-3 ESV / 229 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.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 ESV / 229 helpful votes

 

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

1 John 3:1 ESV / 226 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.

Ephesians 5:2 ESV / 225 helpful votes

 

And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Proverbs 17:9 ESV / 225 helpful votes

 

Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.

1 Peter 4:8-9 ESV / 220 helpful votes

 

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. Show hospitality to one another without grumbling.

1 Corinthians 13:1-3 ESV / 216 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.

Psalm 143:8 ESV / 213 helpful votes

 

Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.

1 Thessalonians 3:12 ESV / 209 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 John 3:16 ESV / 207 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.

Romans 13:10 ESV / 204 helpful votes

 

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

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 203 helpful votes

 

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

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 203 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.

1 Peter 2:17 ESV / 201 helpful votes

 

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

Jeremiah 31:3 ESV / 200 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.

1 Corinthians 13:4-5 ESV / 199 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;

1 Timothy 1:5 ESV / 185 helpful votes

 

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

1 John 3:11 ESV / 184 helpful votes

 

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

Galatians 6:2 ESV / 184 helpful votes

 

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

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 184 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.

Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 182 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.

1 Corinthians 13:2 ESV / 180 helpful votes

 

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.

1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 179 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.

Song of Solomon 8:6-7 ESV / 177 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.

1 John 2:10 ESV / 164 helpful votes

 

Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling.

1 Peter 3:8 ESV / 156 helpful votes

 

Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.

Galatians 5:26 ESV / 149 helpful votes

 

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

Matthew 19:19 ESV / 144 helpful votes

 

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

1 John 4:9-11 ESV / 143 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. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

1 John 3:23 ESV / 141 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.

John 15:17 ESV / 135 helpful votes

 

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

1 John 3:14 ESV / 134 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.

Hebrews 13:1 ESV / 132 helpful votes

 

Let brotherly love continue.

Galatians 5:6 ESV / 132 helpful votes

 

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.

Hebrews 10:24 ESV / 129 helpful votes

 

And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,

2 Thessalonians 3:5 ESV / 129 helpful votes

 

May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.

Hebrews 6:10 ESV / 125 helpful votes

 

For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.

1 John 3:15-16 ESV / 123 helpful votes

 

Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 123 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.

1 John 3:1-24 ESV / 117 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. Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure. Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. You know that he appeared to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. ...

1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 116 helpful votes

 

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

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 115 helpful votes

 

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,