Faith Expressions

Amore77: A List of Seventy-Seven Bible Verses about Love

Love from the First and Second Letters of John

First Letter of John

 

“Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also must love one another. No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God remains in us and his love is made complete in us.”

(1 John 4:11-12 / CSB 2018) --- Bible verses about how God’s love is made complete in us

 

“This is how we know that we remain in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and we testify that the Father has sent his Son as the world’s Savior. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God – God remains in him and he in God. And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us.”

(1 John 4:13-16 / CSB 2018) --- Bible verses about the power of the Holy Spirit to help us rely on Jesus and God’s love

 

“God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him. In this, love is made complete with us so that we may have confidence in the day of judgement, because as he is, so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love; instead, perfect love drives out fear….”

(1 John 4:16-18 / CSB 2018) --- Bible verses about God and love and the power of love

 

“We love because he first loved us.”

(1 John 4:19 / CSB 2018) --- Bible verse about the effect of God loving us first

 

“And we have this command from him: The one who loves God must also love his brother and sister.”

(1 John 4:21 / CSB 2018) --- Bible verse about loving God as expressed in loving our fellow human beings

 

“Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves the one born of him. This is how we know that we love God’s children: when we love God and obey his commands.”

(1 John 5:1-2 / CSB 2018) --- Bible verses about loving God as an expression of one’s faith in Christ and obedience to His commands

 

Second Letter of John

 

“May God the Father and Jesus Christ, the Father’s Son, give us grace, mercy, and peace; may they be ours in truth and love.”

(2 John 1:3 / GNT 2017) --- Bible verse about love as essential ingredient of God’s gifts of grace, mercy and peace

 

“How happy I was to find that some of your children live in the truth, just as the Father commanded us. And so I ask you, dear Lady: let us all love one another. This is no new command I am writing you; it is the command which we have had from the beginning. This love I speak of means that we must live in obedience to God’s command.”

(2 John 1:4-6 / GNT 2017) --- Bible verses about love as obedience to God’s commands