100 Bible Verses about Unconditional Love

John 3:16 ESV / 2,314 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 5:8 ESV / 2,015 helpful votes

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

1 John 4:8 ESV / 1,877 helpful votes

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

1 John 4:16 ESV / 1,594 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 John 4:18 ESV / 1,380 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.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 1,298 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 Peter 4:8 ESV / 1,247 helpful votes

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

1 John 3:16 ESV / 1,155 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 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 1,123 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; ...

John 15:13 ESV / 1,082 helpful votes

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

Luke 6:27 ESV / 958 helpful votes

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

Romans 8:35 ESV / 956 helpful votes

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

Jeremiah 31:3 ESV / 946 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 John 3:1 ESV / 850 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.

1 John 4:9-10 ESV / 834 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.

Matthew 5:43-48 ESV / 829 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? ...

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 758 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 752 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

Romans 12:9-10 ESV / 688 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 Corinthians 13:7 ESV / 686 helpful votes

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 677 helpful votes

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

Titus 3:4-5 ESV / 657 helpful votes

But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 644 helpful votes

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

Colossians 3:14 ESV / 623 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 2:4-5 ESV / 595 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 2:20 ESV / 555 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.

Romans 5:5 ESV / 552 helpful votes

And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

1 John 4:19 ESV / 551 helpful votes

We love because he first loved us.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 548 helpful votes

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

John 15:12 ESV / 531 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 527 helpful votes

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

John 14:21 ESV / 500 helpful votes

Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”

John 13:34-35 ESV / 479 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 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 458 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.

Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 456 helpful votes

The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.

1 Corinthians 16:14 ESV / 454 helpful votes

Let all that you do be done in love.

Isaiah 49:15-16 ESV / 453 helpful votes

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.

1 John 4:7-11 ESV / 441 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.

Romans 8:37-39 ESV / 433 helpful votes

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Psalm 52:8 ESV / 416 helpful votes

But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever.

Mark 12:31 ESV / 415 helpful votes

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

John 15:9 ESV / 387 helpful votes

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

1 Timothy 1:5 ESV / 378 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 370 helpful votes

Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 360 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

John 14:23 ESV / 347 helpful votes

Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

1 John 3:16-18 ESV / 346 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. But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

Matthew 22:37-39 ESV / 346 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.

Ephesians 5:2 ESV / 343 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 13:1 ESV / 340 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.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 339 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Philippians 2:1 ESV / 339 helpful votes

So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy,

2 Corinthians 5:14 ESV / 337 helpful votes

For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died;

Romans 8:38-39 ESV / 334 helpful votes

For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 333 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant

Romans 8:35-39 ESV / 322 helpful votes

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 John 4:12 ESV / 321 helpful votes

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

John 13:34 ESV / 321 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.

John 17:23 ESV / 314 helpful votes

I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.

Luke 6:35 ESV / 311 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 2:5 ESV / 308 helpful votes

But whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him:

1 John 4:7 ESV / 304 helpful votes

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

Deuteronomy 7:9 ESV / 302 helpful votes

Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

Romans 8:28 ESV / 295 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.

Romans 8:38 ESV / 293 helpful votes

For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,

1 John 4:10-11 ESV / 291 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.

Ephesians 2:4 ESV / 290 helpful votes

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,

Ephesians 3:15-19 ESV / 288 helpful votes

From whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Song of Solomon 8:7 ESV / 288 helpful votes

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 4:9 ESV / 284 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.

Psalm 36:5-7 ESV / 282 helpful votes

Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds. Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judgments are like the great deep; man and beast you save, O Lord. How precious is your steadfast love, O God! The children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings.

Ephesians 1:6 ESV / 272 helpful votes

To the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.

Ephesians 2:3 ESV / 270 helpful votes

Among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

Deuteronomy 4:37 ESV / 269 helpful votes

And because he loved your fathers and chose their offspring after them and brought you out of Egypt with his own presence, by his great power,

Ephesians 3:17-19 ESV / 265 helpful votes

So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

James 2:8 ESV / 262 helpful votes

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

Song of Solomon 8:6 ESV / 262 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.

1 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 260 helpful votes

Desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make confident assertions.

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 260 helpful votes

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, ...

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 259 helpful votes

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

Deuteronomy 7:7-8 ESV / 259 helpful votes

It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, but it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 256 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.

Ephesians 5:6 ESV / 255 helpful votes

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

2 Thessalonians 3:5 ESV / 252 helpful votes

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

John 15:17 ESV / 245 helpful votes

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

John 3:36 ESV / 243 helpful votes

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

Colossians 2:15 ESV / 242 helpful votes

He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 240 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. ...

Romans 13:8 ESV / 238 helpful votes

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

1 John 4:7-8 ESV / 237 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.

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 236 helpful votes

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

Exodus 20:6 ESV / 235 helpful votes

But showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Romans 8:37 ESV / 234 helpful votes

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

2 Corinthians 13:14 ESV / 232 helpful votes

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

1 John 5:2 ESV / 219 helpful votes

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.

Romans 12:9 ESV / 210 helpful votes

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

John 13:23 ESV / 210 helpful votes

One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was reclining at table at Jesus' side,

Revelation 1:5 ESV / 209 helpful votes

And from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood

Song of Solomon 4:10 ESV / 204 helpful votes

How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your oils than any spice!

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 204 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.

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