VideoBible

Give Now

VideoBible

Give Now

170 Bible Verses about Loving Others

In a world often divided, the Bible’s message of love offers hope and unity. These 170 Bible verses about loving others inspire us to show more love, kindness, and compassion. These verses not only provide spiritual insight but also practical advice for everyday life. Let’s discover how these timeless words can guide us towards a more loving and understanding world.

Loving Others in Action Bible Verses

  • 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.
  • 1 John 3:18 – Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
  • Hebrews 13:1-2 – Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters. Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.
  • John 15:12-13 – My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
  • Philippians 2:3-4 – Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
  • 1 Thessalonians 5:11 – Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.
  • Colossians 3:12-14 – Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
  • James 2:8 – If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing right.

Loving Others and Forgiveness Bible Verses

  • Ephesians 4:31-32 – Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
  • Luke 6:35-36 – But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
  • Matthew 18:21-22 – Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?” Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.”
  • Colossians 3:13 – Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
  • Mark 11:25 – And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.
  • Luke 17:3-4 – So watch yourselves. “If your brother or sister sins against you, rebuke them; and if they repent, forgive them. Even if they sin against you seven times in a day and seven times come back to you saying ‘I repent,’ you must forgive them.”
  • 1 Peter 3:8-9 – Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble. Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.
  • 2 Corinthians 2:7-8 – Now instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. I urge you, therefore, to reaffirm your love for him.
  • Matthew 5:44 – But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
  • Romans 12:17-18 – Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone. If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.

Loving Others and Within the Family Bible Verses

  • Ephesians 5:25-26 – Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word.
  • Proverbs 17:17 – A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.
  • 1 Timothy 5:8 – Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
  • Proverbs 31:10-12 – A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value. She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life.
  • Ephesians 6:1-2 – Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise—
  • Genesis 2:24 – That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
  • Proverbs 15:17 – Better a small serving of vegetables with love than a fattened calf with hatred.
  • 1 Corinthians 16:14 – Let all that you do be done in love.
  • Proverbs 22:6 – Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.
  • Colossians 3:19 – Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.

Loving Others, Friends and Neighbors Bible Verses

  • Proverbs 27:9 – Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart, and the pleasantness of a friend springs from their heartfelt advice.
  • Luke 10:27 – He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
  • Proverbs 3:27-28 – Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to act. Do not say to your neighbor, “Come back tomorrow and I’ll give it to you”—when you already have it with you.
  • Galatians 6:2 – Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
  • John 13:34-35 – A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.
  • 1 John 4:11-12 – Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
  • Romans 13:8 – Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
  • 1 Peter 1:22 – Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart.

Loving Others Through Compassion and Kindness

  • Colossians 3:12 – Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
  • Zechariah 7:9 – “This is what the LORD Almighty said: ‘Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another.
  • Ephesians 4:2 – Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
  • 1 Peter 3:9 – Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.
  • Luke 6:31 – Do to others as you would have them do to you.
  • Proverbs 19:17 – Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will reward them for what they have done.
  • 1 Corinthians 13:4 – Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
  • Proverbs 11:17 – Those who are kind benefit themselves, but the cruel bring ruin on themselves.
  • Matthew 9:36 – When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

Loving Others Through Patience and Understanding

  • Ephesians 4:32 – Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
  • James 1:19-20 – My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.
  • Proverbs 15:1 – A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
  • Romans 14:13 – Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister.
  • Galatians 6:9 – Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
  • Philippians 4:5 – Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near.
  • 2 Timothy 2:24 – And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful.
  • 1 Thessalonians 5:14 – And we urge you, brothers and sisters, warn those who are idle and disruptive, encourage the disheartened, help the weak, be patient with everyone.
  • James 5:8 – You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord’s coming is near.
  • Romans 15:1 – We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves.

Loving Others Through Sacrifice

  • Ephesians 5:2 – And walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
  • John 3:16 – For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
  • 1 John 3:16 – This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.
  • Philippians 2:17 – Even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service coming from your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you.
  • Hebrews 9:14 – How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!
  • Galatians 2:20 – I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
  • Romans 5:8 – But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
  • 1 Peter 2:24 – “He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.”
  • Matthew 20:28 – Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
  • John 15:13 – Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

Loving Others and Humility

  • Philippians 2:3 – Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves.
  • 1 Peter 5:5 – In the same way, you who are younger, submit yourselves to your elders. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.”
  • Matthew 23:12 – For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.
  • James 4:6 – But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.”
  • Proverbs 22:4 – Humility is the fear of the LORD; its wages are riches and honor and life.
  • Ephesians 4:2 – Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
  • Proverbs 11:2 – When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.
  • Luke 14:11 – For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.

Loving Others and Peace

  • Romans 12:18 – If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.
  • Matthew 5:9 – Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.
  • Hebrews 12:14 – Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.
  • James 3:18 – Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.
  • Proverbs 12:20 – Deceit is in the hearts of those who plot evil, but those who promote peace have joy.
  • 1 Peter 3:11 – They must turn from evil and do good; they must seek peace and pursue it.
  • Psalm 34:14 – Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.
  • Romans 14:19 – So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.
  • 2 Timothy 2:22 – Flee the evil desires of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
  • 1 Corinthians 14:33 – For God is not a God of disorder but of peace—as in all the congregations of the Lord’s people.

Loving Others and Joy

  • John 15:11 – I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.
  • Philippians 4:4 – Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!
  • Romans 12:15 – Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.
  • 1 Thessalonians 3:9 – How can we thank God enough for you in return for all the joy we have in the presence of our God because of you?
  • Psalm 33:1 – Sing joyfully to the LORD, you righteous; it is fitting for the upright to praise him.
  • 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.
  • Proverbs 17:22 – A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
  • 2 John 1:12 – I have much to write to you, but I do not want to use paper and ink. Instead, I hope to visit you and talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete.
  • Acts 20:35 – In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
  • Psalm 16:11 – You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

Loving Others and Faith

  • Galatians 5:6 – For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.
  • 1 John 5:2-3 – This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome,
  • Ephesians 3:17-19 – So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,
  • 1 Thessalonians 1:3 – We remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • 2 Thessalonians 1:3 – We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing.
  • 1 Peter 4:8 – Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
  • 3 John 1:14 – I hope to see you soon, and we will talk face to face. Peace to you. The friends here send their greetings. Greet the friends there by name.
  • 1 Corinthians 13:2 – If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
  • 1 Corinthians 13:13 – And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

The Law of Loving Others

  • Romans 13:10 – Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
  • 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.”
  • Galatians 5:14 – For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
  • Romans 8:3-4 – For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
  • John 14:15 – “If you love me, keep my commands.”
  • 1 John 2:5 – But if anyone obeys his word, love for God is truly made complete in them. This is how we know we are in him.
  • Romans 5:18-19 – Consequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people. For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.
  • Galatians 3:23-24 – Before the coming of this faith, we were held in custody under the law, locked up until the faith that was to come would be revealed. So the law was our guardian until Christ came that we might be justified by faith.
  • Leviticus 19:18 – “‘Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.”

Wisdom from Loving Others

  • Proverbs 3:3-4 – Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man.
  • James 3:13 – Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.
  • Proverbs 10:12 – Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs.
  • 1 Corinthians 8:1 – Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that “We all possess knowledge.” But knowledge puffs up while love builds up.
  • Ephesians 5:15-16 – Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.
  • Colossians 4:5-6 – Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
  • Proverbs 15:33 – Wisdom’s instruction is to fear the LORD, and humility comes before honor.
  • Philippians 1:9-10 – And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,
  • James 1:5 – If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.
  • Proverbs 19:8 – The one who gets wisdom loves life; the one who cherishes understanding will soon prosper.

Loving Others and Serving One Another

  • Galatians 5:13 – You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.
  • 1 Peter 4:10 – Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.
  • Mark 10:45 – For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
  • John 13:14-15 – Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you.
  • Matthew 25:40 – “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’”
  • Hebrews 6:10 – God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them.
  • 1 Corinthians 9:19 – Though I am free and belong to no one, I have made myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.
  • Philippians 2:20-21 – I have no one else like him, who will show genuine concern for your welfare. For everyone looks out for their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
  • Luke 22:26-27 – But you are not to be like that. Instead, the greatest among you should be like the youngest, and the one who rules like the one who serves. For who is greater, the one who is at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who is at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.

Loving Others and Transformation

  • Romans 12:2 – Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing, and perfect will.
  • 2 Corinthians 5:17 – Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
  • Ephesians 4:22-24 – You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
  • Titus 3:4-5 – But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit,
  • 1 Peter 1:22-23 – Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart. For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
  • Colossians 3:9-10 – Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
  • Romans 6:4 – We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
  • 2 Peter 1:4 – Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
  • Galatians 6:15 – Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is the new creation.
  • Ephesians 2:10 – For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

Loving Others and the Heart

  • Proverbs 4:23 – Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.
  • Matthew 5:8 – Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
  • Proverbs 12:25 – Anxiety weighs down the heart, but a kind word cheers it up.
  • Ezekiel 36:26 – I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
  • Matthew 22:37 – Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
  • Psalm 51:10 – Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
  • Proverbs 3:5-6 – Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.
  • Luke 6:45 – A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
  • 1 Samuel 16:7 – But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”
  • Jeremiah 17:10 – “I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve.”

Love’s Endurance from Loving Others

  • 1 Corinthians 13:7 – Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
  • Hebrews 13:1 – Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters.
  • 1 Peter 4:8 – Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
  • Romans 8:38-39 – For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  • 1 Corinthians 13:8 – Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
  • James 1:12 – Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love Him.
  • Romans 5:3-5 – Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
  • 1 Thessalonians 3:12-13 – May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you. May he strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless and holy in the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy ones.
  • 2 Thessalonians 3:5 – May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance.
  • Colossians 1:23 – If you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel, this is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.

Loving Others and Guidance Bible Verses

  • Psalm 32:8 – I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.
  • Proverbs 3:11-12 – My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline, and do not resent his rebuke, because the Lord disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in.
  • John 16:13 – But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.
  • Psalm 25:9 – He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way.
  • Proverbs 16:9 – In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps.
  • Isaiah 58:11 – The Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.
  • Philippians 4:9 – Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.
  • Psalm 48:14 – For this God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our guide even to the end.
  • Proverbs 11:14 – For lack of guidance a nation falls, but victory is won through many advisers.
  • Psalm 119:105 – Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.

Conclusion

As we reflect on these 170 Bible verses about loving others, we are reminded of the profound impact that love can have in our lives and communities. By incorporating these teachings into our daily lives, we can foster a world that thrives on compassion and mutual respect. Let us carry forward this message of love, allowing it to guide our actions and inspire our hearts every day.

Related Videos