Encouraging Verses For You

Love

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. (1 John 4:7-12 NIV84)

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self‑seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. (1 Corinthians 13:1-13 NIV84)

Do everything in love. (1 Corinthians 16:14 NIV84)

"As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. (John 15:9, 12, 13 NIV84)

I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me. (Proverbs 8:17 NIV84)

No, the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God. (John 16:27 NIV84)

Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. (Romans 13:10 NIV84)

Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. (1 Peter 4:8 NIV84)

The Lord loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of his unfailing love. (Psalms 33:5 NIV84)

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. (Ephesians 5:25-27 NIV84)

Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them. (Colossians 3:18, 19 NIV84)

But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation. I will sing to the Lord , for he has been good to me. (Psalms 13:5, 6 NIV84)

Your love, O Lord , reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies. (Psalms 36:5 NIV84)

For great is your love, reaching to the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the skies. (Psalms 57:10 NIV84)

Give thanks to the Lord , for he is good; his love endures forever. (Psalms 107:1 NIV84)

Give thanks to the Lord , for he is good; his love endures forever. (Psalms 118:1 NIV84)

Give thanks to the Lord , for he is good; his love endures forever. (Psalms 118:29 NIV84)

Give thanks to the Lord , for he is good. His love endures forever. (Psalms 136:1 NIV84)

Give thanks to the God of gods. His love endures forever. Give thanks to the Lord of lords: His love endures forever. (Psalms 136:2, 3 NIV84)

Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred. (Proverbs 15:17 NIV84)

Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent. For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him. And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain. And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre. But God raised him from the dead: And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people. And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David. Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption: But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption. Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. (Acts 13:26-39 KJV)

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:37-39 NIV84)

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16 NIV84)

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There are so many verses on love in the Bible, but here are just a few. He loves you more than you can even imagine :)