And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Mat 22: 37 - 40
Jesus replied: 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.'
John 13: 34
'A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.'
1 Pet 4: 8
Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
1 John 3: 16 - 18
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. 17 If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? 18 Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
1 John 4: 7, 8
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Gal 5: 14
For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: 'Love your neighbor as yourself'.
John 14: 15
'If you love me, keep my commands.'
Gal 6: 2
Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
Mat 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.'
Mat 7: 12
'So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.'
Romans 13: 8
Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.
Col 3: 13, 14
Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. 14 And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
1 Cor 13: 4 - 8
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 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.
1 Cor 16: 14
Do everything in love.
John 15: 13
Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends.
1 John 4: 19 - 21
We love because he first loved us. 20 Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.
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, 39 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.
