40 Encouraging Bible Scriptures on Loving Others

Here are the 40 most encouraging Bible scriptures on loving others.

John 13:34
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.”

1 John 4:11
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

1 Corinthians 13:13
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

1 Peter 4:8
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

1 Corinthians 13:1
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

1 Corinthians 13:3
If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

1 Corinthians 16:14
Let all that you do be done in love.

1 John 3:1
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

1 John 3:11
For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

1 John 3:14
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death.

1 John 3:16
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

1 John 4:12
No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

1 John 4:16
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

1 John 4:18
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

1 John 4:19
We love because he first loved us.

1 John 4:21
And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.

1 John 4:7
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

1 Peter 1:22
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart.

1 Peter 2:17
Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.

1 Thessalonians 4:9
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.

Colossians 3:14
And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

Ephesians 4:2
With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love.

Ephesians 4:32
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Ephesians 5:2
And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.

Galatians 5:6
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.

John 15:12
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.”

John 15:13
“Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”

John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Leviticus 19:18
“You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.”

Luke 6:31
“And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.”

Matthew 22:37
And he said to him, “’You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'”

Matthew 22:39
“And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'”

Micah 6:8
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Proverbs 17:17
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Romans 12:10
Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

Romans 13:8
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Romans 5:8
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 8:28
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

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Natalie Regoli is a child of God, devoted wife, and mother of two boys. She has a Master's Degree in Law from The University of Texas. Natalie has been published in several national journals and has been practicing law for 18 years.