45+ Moving Bible Verses About Loving Others

Published January 8, 2024

For Christians, Bible verses about God’s love are a solemn refuge in times of trouble. But God’s love is intertwined with another kind of love: that of loving and serving others. Indeed, if we summarize the contents of the Bible, it all boils down to love – for God and others. One cannot exist without the other. But for this post, we’ll focus on the latter.

When we hear love, we tend to think about the romantic kind. But love, especially love for others, comes in varying forms. It shows how we care for our children, respect our parents, and look out for neighbors and strangers. It’s why charity exists and why some people are willing to devote their lives to the service of others. If you think about it, love is essentially the thread that holds our society together.

What Does The Bible Say About Love?

Many Bible verses about loving others from the Old to the New Testament exist. Here are some of them:

1. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things –  1 Corinthians 13:4-7
2. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. – 1 John 4:16
3. Blessed are those who have regard for the weak; the Lord delivers them in times of trouble. – Psalm 41:1
4. My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. – John 15:12
5. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is made complete in us. –  1 John 4:12
6. Be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you. – Ephesians 4:32
7. Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. – Romans 13:8
8. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves. – Philippians 2:3
9. Do to others as you would have them do to you. – Luke 6:31
10. “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy’. But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.  If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect. – Matthew 5:43-48
11. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples if you love one another. – John 13:35
12. Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. – Galatians 6:2
13. Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers all wrongs. – Proverbs 10:12
14. Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends. – Proverbs 17:9
15. What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? – James 2:14-16
16. We loved because he first loved us. – 1 John 4:19
17. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: ” You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” – Galatians 5:14
18. Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. – Romans 12: 9-10
19. So then, let us stop judging one another. Instead, you should decide never to do anything that would make others stumble or fall into sin. – Romans 14:13
20. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. – 1 John 4:8
21. Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to act. – Proverbs 3:27
22. I, your Lord and Teacher, have just washed your feet. You, then, should wash one another’s feet. – John 13:14

Love One Another Bible Verse

23. 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. – Luke 6:35
24. 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. – Proverbs 3:3-4
25. Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers a multitude of sins. – 1 Peter 4:8
26. The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. – 1 Timothy 1:5
27. And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. – Hebrews 10:24-25
28. Let all that you do be done in love. – 1 Corinthians 16:14
29. 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 Corinthians 13:8
30. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. – John 15:13
31. A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. – Proverbs 17:17
32. Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. – 1 Peter 4:10
33. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. – Colossians 3:14
34. Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another. – 1 Thessalonians 4:9