What Does the Bible Say About Definition Of Love?

1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 6 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; ...

1 John 4:10 ESV / 5 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.

John 3:16 ESV / 5 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.

1 John 4:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Romans 5:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

1 John 5:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.

1 John 3:16 ESV / 3 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.

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 3 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 / 3 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.

John 15:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

John 14:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

Revelation 2:1-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands. “‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary. But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent. ...

1 John 4:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

We love because he first loved us.

1 John 4:9 ESV / 2 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.

1 John 4:7-8 ESV / 2 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 4:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. ...

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

2 Peter 1:5-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.

1 Timothy 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 2 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 Corinthians 13:3 ESV / 2 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.

1 Corinthians 13:1 ESV / 2 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 / 2 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.

John 13:34-35 ESV / 2 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.”

John 3:17-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

Matthew 22:34-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 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. ...

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 2 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.

31 Bible Verses about Definition Of Love

1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 John 4:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 John 4:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 5:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 5:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 15:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 14:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Revelation 2:1-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 John 4:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 John 4:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 John 4:7-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 John 4:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:5-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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John 15:12-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 13:34-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:17-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 22:34-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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31 Bible Verses about Definition Of Love

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1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 John 4:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 John 4:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 5:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 5:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 15:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 14:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Revelation 2:1-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 John 4:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 John 4:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 John 4:7-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 John 4:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:5-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 15:12-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 13:34-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:17-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 22:34-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes