These are collections of Biblical Passages about love. It is my hope that sharing these with you will inspire you to see love not as the world sees it but as our faith as Christians leads us to see it. The Love that is from God is perfect.
John 8:42-43
New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now I am here. I did not come on my own, but he sent me. Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot accept my word."
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
"Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends..."
John 3:16
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“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life."
John 13:34
New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
"I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another."
1 John 4:18
New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
"There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not reached perfection in love."
Matthew 5:43-44
New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
“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..."
Matthew 5:46-48
John 8:42-43
New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now I am here. I did not come on my own, but he sent me. Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot accept my word."
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
"Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends..."
John 3:16
New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life."
John 13:34
New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
"I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another."
1 John 4:18
New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
"There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not reached perfection in love."
Matthew 5:43-44
New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
“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..."
Matthew 5:46-48
New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
"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 and sisters, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect."
Mark 12:29-31
New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
Jesus answered, “The first is, ‘Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one; you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
"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 and sisters, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect."
Mark 12:29-31
New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
Jesus answered, “The first is, ‘Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one; you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
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