116 Biblical Promises for Love

Love is something you show, not just something you say. Think about Jesus – His sacrifice is the perfect example. He loved us so much that He gave everything for each of us, so our sins could be forgiven. He didn't need big words; His love was shown through quiet strength, enduring the pain we deserved because of our mistakes.

Jesus is the best role model we could ask for, and following His example of love is the most valuable thing anyone can do. God wants us to love each other, just like He loved us. True love comes from God – He's the endless source. And once you experience that love, you can learn to love others unconditionally.

God's hoping for a generation that walks in love and is willing to give everything for those in need. This world is starved for affection, and you're called to be a reflection of Jesus here on Earth. Love goes beyond race and social status; it's not about what you get from others, it's about how much you can give. That's what love is all about.

Everything you do should be done in love.

We love because he loved us first.

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

The one who pursues righteousness and love finds life, bounty, and honor.

Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up.It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful.It is not glad about injustice, but rejoices in the truth.It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Give thanks to the God of heaven, for his loyal love endures!

For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,even though we were dead in transgressions, made us alive together with Christ – by grace you are saved! –

The Lord is merciful and compassionate; he is patient and demonstrates great loyal love.

And to all these virtues add love, which is the perfect bond.

Do not let truth and mercy leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.Do not accuse anyone without legitimate cause, if he has not treated you wrongly.Do not envy a violent man, and do not choose to imitate any of his ways;for one who goes astray is an abomination to the Lord, but he reveals his intimate counsel to the upright.The Lord’s curse is on the household of the wicked, but he blesses the home of the righteous.Although he is scornful to arrogant scoffers, yet he shows favor to the humble.The wise inherit honor, but he holds fools up to public contempt.Then you will find favor and good understanding, in the sight of God and people.

And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.

And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Jesus said to him, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’This is the first and greatest commandment.The second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

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

and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

Above all keep your love for one another fervent, because love covers a multitude of sins.

But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and merciful God. You are patient and demonstrate great loyal love and faithfulness.

Love must be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil, cling to what is good.

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

My commandment is this – to love one another just as I have loved you.

But I say to you, love your enemy and pray for those who persecute you,

And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

Yet do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

Be devoted to one another with mutual love, showing eagerness in honoring one another.

Even if the mountains are removed and the hills displaced, my devotion will not be removed from you, nor will my covenant of friendship be displaced,” says the Lord, the one who has compassion on you.

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

If anyone says “I love God” and yet hates his fellow Christian, he is a liar, because the one who does not love his fellow Christian whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

May I hear about your loyal love in the morning, for I trust in you. Show me the way I should go, because I long for you.

Brotherly love must continue.

No one has greater love than this – that one lays down his life for his friends.

There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears punishment has not been perfected in love.

And may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we do for you,

And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his loyal love endures.

Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.

You have purified your souls by obeying the truth in order to show sincere mutual love. So love one another earnestly from a pure heart.

The Lord’s loyal kindness never ceases; his compassions never end.They are fresh every morning; your faithfulness is abundant!

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good and his loyal love endures!

Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.

May mercy, peace, and love be lavished on you!

My goal is that their hearts, having been knit together in love, may be encouraged, and that they may have all the riches that assurance brings in their understanding of the knowledge of the mystery of God, namely, Christ,

Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

In everything, treat others as you would want them to treat you, for this fulfills the law and the prophets.

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

The Lord is compassionate and merciful; he is patient and demonstrates great loyal love.

By day the Lord decrees his loyal love, and by night he gives me a song, a prayer to the living God.

But if someone loves God, he is known by God.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

Through all that they suffered, he suffered too. The messenger sent from his very presence delivered them. In his love and mercy he protected them; he lifted them up and carried them throughout ancient times.

Certainly O Lord, you are kind and forgiving, and show great faithfulness to all who cry out to you.

For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments do not weigh us down,

For the whole law can be summed up in a single commandment, namely, “You must love your neighbor as yourself.”

to the one who performs magnificent, amazing deeds all by himself, for his loyal love endures,

For he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world that we may be holy and unblemished in his sight in love.He did this by predestining us to adoption as his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure of his will –

For the love of Christ controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died.

For if your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy by your food someone for whom Christ died.

Then you will take delight in the Lord, and he will answer your prayers.

Therefore, if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort provided by love, any fellowship in the Spirit, any affection or mercy,so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow – in heaven and on earth and under the earth –and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.So then, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence but even more in my absence, continue working out your salvation with awe and reverence,for the one bringing forth in you both the desire and the effort – for the sake of his good pleasure – is God.Do everything without grumbling or arguing,so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without blemish though you live in a crooked and perverse society, in which you shine as lights in the worldby holding on to the word of life so that on the day of Christ I will have a reason to boast that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice together with all of you.And in the same way you also should be glad and rejoice together with me.Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I too may be encouraged by hearing news about you.complete my joy and be of the same mind, by having the same love, being united in spirit, and having one purpose.

A friend loves at all times, and a relative is born to help in adversity.

For the Lord is good. His loyal love endures, and he is faithful through all generations.

Can a woman forget her baby who nurses at her breast? Can she withhold compassion from the child she has borne? Even if mothers were to forget, I could never forget you!

I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your name, because of your loyal love and faithfulness, for you have exalted your promise above the entire sky.

Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with a heart of mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience,bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if someone happens to have a complaint against anyone else. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also forgive others.And to all these virtues add love, which is the perfect bond.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but I do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.but when what is perfect comes, the partial will be set aside.When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. But when I became an adult, I set aside childish ways.For now we see in a mirror indirectly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I have been fully known.And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.If I give away everything I own, and if I give over my body in order to boast, but do not have love, I receive no benefit.

And let us take thought of how to spur one another on to love and good works,not abandoning our own meetings, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other, and even more so because you see the day drawing near.

to the one who used wisdom to make the heavens, for his loyal love endures,

The second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, so that, because you have been rooted and grounded in love,you may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,and thus to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision carries any weight – the only thing that matters is faith working through love.

Above all keep your love for one another fervent, because love covers a multitude of sins.Show hospitality to one another without complaining.

Love never ends. But if there are prophecies, they will be set aside; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be set aside.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

O Lord, my God, I will give you thanks with my whole heart! I will honor your name continually!

Since you are precious and special in my sight, and I love you, I will hand over people in place of you, nations in place of your life.

In the same way, let your light shine before people, so that they can see your good deeds and give honor to your Father in heaven.

For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you,that is, that we may be mutually comforted by one another’s faith, both yours and mine.

Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice, set things right, be encouraged, agree with one another, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

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

Yet he is compassionate. He forgives sin and does not destroy. He often holds back his anger, and does not stir up his fury.

But whoever obeys his word, truly in this person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in him.

O Lord, your loyal love fills the earth. Teach me your statutes! ט (Tet)

Honor all people, love the family of believers, fear God, honor the king.

Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to join fervently with me in prayer to God on my behalf.

Do not neglect hospitality, because through it some have entertained angels without knowing it.

Evil men borrow, but do not repay their debt, but the godly show compassion and are generous.

I love the Lord because he heard my plea for mercy,I had faith when I said, “I am severely oppressed.”I rashly declared, “All men are liars.”How can I repay the Lord for all his acts of kindness to me?I will celebrate my deliverance, and call on the name of the Lord.I will fulfill my vows to the Lord before all his people.The Lord values the lives of his faithful followers.Yes, Lord! I am indeed your servant; I am your lowest slave. You saved me from death.I will present a thank offering to you, and call on the name of the Lord.I will fulfill my vows to the Lord before all his people,in the courts of the Lord’s temple, in your midst, O Jerusalem. Praise the Lord!and listened to me. As long as I live, I will call to him when I need help.

We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.But whoever has the world’s possessions and sees his fellow Christian in need and shuts off his compassion against him, how can the love of God reside in such a person?Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth.

When I am afraid, I trust in you.In God – I boast in his promise – in God I trust, I am not afraid. What can mere men do to me?

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Indeed I am composed and quiet, like a young child carried by its mother; I am content like the young child I carry.

The one who is gracious to the poor lends to the Lord, and the Lord will repay him for his good deed.

For I am the Lord your God, the one who takes hold of your right hand, who says to you, ‘Don’t be afraid, I am helping you.’

It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful.

I will sing continually about the Lord’s faithful deeds; to future generations I will proclaim your faithfulness.

The Lord says, “Because he is devoted to me, I will deliver him; I will protect him because he is loyal to me.

Now may the God of endurance and comfort give you unity with one another in accordance with Christ Jesus,

And the commandment we have from him is this: that the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian too.

See how I love your precepts! O Lord, revive me with your loyal love!

Do not be deceived. God will not be made a fool. For a person will reap what he sows,because the person who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.So we must not grow weary in doing good, for in due time we will reap, if we do not give up.

Now may the Lord direct your hearts toward the love of God and the endurance of Christ.

And let us hold unwaveringly to the hope that we confess, for the one who made the promise is trustworthy.

Those who love your law are completely secure; nothing causes them to stumble.

Love the Lord, all you faithful followers of his! The Lord protects those who have integrity, but he pays back in full the one who acts arrogantly.

Better is little with the fear of the Lord than great wealth and turmoil with it.Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox where there is hatred.

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

Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up.It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful.It is not glad about injustice, but rejoices in the truth.It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.Love never ends. But if there are prophecies, they will be set aside; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be set aside.

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by grace gave us eternal comfort and good hope,encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good thing you do or say.

(See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God’s children – and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.

The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

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