Bible Verses About Loving Others

Loving others is one of the most important teachings in the Bible. It’s a central part of living out our faith and showing kindness to those around us. In this post, we’ll explore Bible verses about loving others that highlight how we can care for and support each other in our daily lives. These verses remind us of the importance of love and how it can make a big difference in our relationships and communities.

Bible Verses About Loving Others

John 13:34 – “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.”

1 John 4:7 – “Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.”

1 John 4:11 – “Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.”

1 John 4:20 – “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.”

Matthew 22:39 – “And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”

Romans 13:10 – “Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.”

Galatians 5:14 – “For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”

Ephesians 4:32 – “Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.”

Colossians 3:14 – “And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.”

1 Peter 4:8 – “Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.”

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.”

Luke 6:31 – “Do to others as you would have them do to you.”

Matthew 5:44 – “But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.”

Romans 5:8 – “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

John 15:12 – “My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.”

John 15:13 – “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”

1 Corinthians 13:4 – “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.”

1 Corinthians 13:5 – “It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.”

1 Corinthians 13:6 – “Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.”

1 Corinthians 13:7 – “It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”

1 Corinthians 13:13 – “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”

Philippians 2:3 – “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves.”

Philippians 2:4 – “Not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.”

1 Thessalonians 3:12 – “May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you.”

1 Thessalonians 4:9 – “Now about your love for one another we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other.”

2 John 1:5 – “And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning. I ask that we love one another.”

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.”

1 John 3:18 – “Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.”

Romans 12:10 – “Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.”

Romans 12:13 – “Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.”

Hebrews 13:1 – “Let mutual love continue.”

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.”

James 2:8 – “If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself,’ you are doing right.”

James 2:13 – “Because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.”

Proverbs 10:12 – “Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs.”

Proverbs 17:9 – “Whoever would foster love covers over an offense, but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends.”

Proverbs 27:10 – “Do not forsake your friend or a friend of your family, and do not go to your relative’s house when disaster strikes you—better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away.”

Isaiah 58:7 – “Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?”

Jeremiah 7:5 – “If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly,”

Micah 6:8 – “He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.”

Matthew 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.”

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.’”

Matthew 25:45 – “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’”

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.’”

Luke 6:35 – “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.”

John 4:19 – “We love because he first loved us.”

John 7:38 – “Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”

These verses emphasize the importance of loving others in our relationships and daily lives, reflecting the love God shows us.

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