- 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 – “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, and it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts always hopes, and always perseveres. Love never fails. But as for prophecies, they will pass away, as for tongues they will cease, as for the gift of special knowledge, it will pass away.”
- John 15:13 – “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”
- 1 John 4:8 – “God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.”
- Romans 12:9-10 – “Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.”
- Ephesians 4:2 – “Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.”
- Colossians 3:14 – “And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.”
- 1 Peter 4:8 – “Above all, love each other deeply because love covers over a multitude of sins.”
- Matthew 22:37-40 – “Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
- Isaiah 43:4 – “Since you are precious and honored in my sight, and because I love you, I will give people in exchange for you, nations in exchange for your life.”
- Galatians 5:22-23 – “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things, there is no law.”
- 1 John 4:16 – “And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.”
- 1 Corinthians 16:14 – “Do everything in love.”
- Matthew 5:44 – “But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,”
- 1 John 3:18 – “Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.”
- 1 John 4:7 – “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.”
- 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 – “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 13:8-10 – “Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,
- John 15:17– This I command you; that you love and unselfishly seek the best for one another.
