[Bible Verses] Love One Another – 62 Bible Verses About Loving Your Neighbors…

As Christians we are supposed to love one another…

This was a command given by Christ Himself, and it extends to our neighbors, strangers, and even our enemies…

Following this commandment is not always easy to do but to help remind you of its importance, here are 62 Bible verses in which we are told to love one another…

Bible Verses – Love One Another…

1 John 4:11

“My dearest, if God hath so loved us; we also ought to love one another.”

John 13:34-35

A new commandment I give unto you: That you love one another, as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.”

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Galatians 5:14

“For all the law is fulfilled in one word: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”

1 Corinthians 16:14

“Let all your things be done in charity.”

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Matthew 25:35-36

For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in: Naked, and you covered me: sick, and you visited me: I was in prison, and you came to me.”

Romans 5:5

“And hope confoundeth not: because the charity of God is poured forth in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost, who is given to us.”

Romans 12:10

“Loving one another with the charity of brotherhood, with honour preventing one another.”

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1 John 4:21

“And this commandment we have from God, that he, who loveth God, love also his brother.”

1 Peter 3:8-9

And in fine, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, being lovers of the brotherhood, merciful, modest, humble: Not rendering evil for evil, nor railing for railing, but contrariwise, blessing: for unto this are you called, that you may inherit a blessing.”

1 John 3:17

“He that hath the substance of this world, and shall see his brother in need, and shall shut up his bowels from him: how doth the charity of God abide in him?”

2 Corinthians 12:15

“But I most gladly will spend and be spent myself for your souls; although loving you more, I be loved less.”

1 Corinthians 8:11-13

“And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ hath died? Now when you sin thus against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. Wherefore, if meat scandalize my brother, I will never eat flesh, lest I should scandalize my brother.

Ephesians 4:2-3

“With all humility and mildness, with patience, supporting one another in charity. Careful to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.”

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1 Peter 1:22

“Purifying your souls in the obedience of charity, with a brotherly love, from a sincere heart love one another earnestly

Ephesians 4:32

And be ye kind one to another; merciful, forgiving one another, even as God hath forgiven you in Christ.”

Matthew 5:43-48

“You have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thy enemy. But I say to you, Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you: and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you: That you may be the children of your Father who is in heaven, who maketh his sun to rise upon the good, and bad, and raineth upon the just and the unjust.

 For if you love them that love you, what reward shall you have? do not even the publicans this? And if you salute your brethren only, what do you more? do not also the heathens this? Be you therefore perfect, as also your heavenly Father is perfect.[source]

Galatians 4:14

“You despised not, nor rejected: but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.”

Matthew 25:35

“For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in”

1 John 3:16

“In this we have known the charity of God, because he hath laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.”

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Romans 13:8

“Owe no man any thing, but to love one another. For he that loveth his neighbour, hath fulfilled the law.”

Philippians 1:3

“I give thanks to my God in every remembrance of you”

1 John 2:10

“He that loveth his brother, abideth in the light, and there is no scandal in him.”

Romans 16:16

“Salute one another with an holy kiss. All the churches of Christ salute you.”

1 Peter 2:17

“Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.”

Romans 8:38-39

For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor might, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

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1 John 3:11

“For this is the declaration, which you have heard from the beginning, that you should love one another.”

Proverbs 17:9

“He that concealeth a transgression. seeketh friendships: he that repeateth it again, separateth friends.”

Genesis 45:14-15

“And falling upon the neck of his brother Benjamin, he embraced him and wept: and Benjamin in like manner wept also on his neck. And Joseph kissed all his brethren, and wept upon every one of them: after which they were emboldened to speak to him.”

1 Peter 5:14

“Salute one another with a holy kiss. Grace be to all you, who are in Christ Jesus. Amen.”

1 Corinthians 13:13

“And now there remain faith, hope, and charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity.”

1 Thessalonians 4:9

“But as touching the charity of brotherhood, we have no need to write to you: for yourselves have learned of God to love one another.”

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Romans 13:10

“The love of our neighbour worketh no evil. Love therefore is the fulfilling of the law.”

Proverbs 10:12

“Hatred stirreth up strifes: and charity covereth all sins.”

1 Corinthians 13:1

“If I speak with the tongues of men, and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.”

1 John 3:18

“My little children, let us not love in word, nor in tongue, but in deed, and in truth.”

1 Thessalonians 2:8

“So desirous of you, we would gladly impart unto you not only the gospel of God, but also our own souls: because you were become most dear unto us.”

1 John 4:12-13

“No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abideth in us, and his charity is perfected in us. In this we know that we abide in him, and he in us: because he hath given us of his spirit.”

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1 John 3:23

“And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ: and love one another, as he hath given commandment unto us.

Leviticus 19:34

“But let him be among you as one of the same country: and you shall love him as yourselves: for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.”

2 Corinthians 2:4

“For out of much affliction and anguish of heart, I wrote to you with many tears: not that you should be made sorrowful: but that you might know the charity I have more abundantly towards you.”

Deuteronomy 15:7-8

“If one of thy brethren that dwelleth within the gates of thy city in the land which the Lord thy God will give thee, come to poverty: thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor close thy hand, But shalt open it to the poor man, thou shalt lend him, that which thou perceivest he hath need of.”

1 Samuel 18:3

“And David and Jonathan made a covenant, for he loved him as his own soul.”

Luke 7:2-7

“And the servant of a certain centurion, who was dear to him, being sick, was ready to die. And when he had heard of Jesus, he sent unto him the ancients of the Jews, desiring him to come and heal his servant. And when they came to Jesus, they besought him earnestly, saying to him: He is worthy that thou shouldest do this for him.

 For he loveth our nation; and he hath built us a synagogue. And Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent his friends to him, saying: Lord, trouble not thyself; for I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter under my roof. For which cause neither did I think myself worthy to come to thee; but say the word, and my servant shall be healed.[source]

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Matthew 22:37-39

“Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Acts 20:37-38

And there was much weeping among them all; and falling on the neck of Paul, they kissed him, Being grieved most of all for the word which he had said, that they should see his face no more. And they brought him on his way to the ship.”

Philippians 4:10

“Now I rejoice in the Lord exceedingly, that now at length your thought for me hath flourished again, as you did also think; but you were busied.”

Job 2:11

“Now when Job’s three friends heard all the evil that had befallen him, they came every one from his own place, Alphas the Themanite, and Baldad the Suhite, and Sophar the Naamathite. For they had made an appointment to come together and visit him, and comfort him.

Proverbs 17:17

“He that is a friend loveth at all times: and a brother is proved in distress.”

Malachi 2:10

“Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why then doth every one of us despise his brother, violating the covenant of our fathers?”

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Mark 12:31

“And the second is like to it: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is no other commandment greater than these.

James 2:8

“If then you fulfill the royal law, according to the scriptures, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; you do well.”

1 Thessalonians 1:3

“Being mindful of the work of your faith, and labour, and charity, and of the enduring of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God and our Father”

Deuteronomy 10:19

“And do you therefore love strangers, because you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.”

Galatians 5:13

“For you, brethren, have been called unto liberty: only make not liberty an occasion to the flesh, but by charity of the spirit serve one another.”

Hebrews 13:1

“Let the charity of the brotherhood abide in you.”

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1 John 4:7-8

Dearly beloved, let us love one another, for charity is of God. And every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not, knoweth not God: for God is charity.”

Romans 16:4

“Who have for my life laid down their own necks: to whom not I only give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles”

1 John 3:14

“We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not, abideth in death.”

1 Peter 4:8

“But before all things have a constant mutual charity among yourselves: for charity covereth a multitude of sins.”

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John 15:12-13

This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”

Leviticus 19:18

“Seek not revenge, nor be mindful of the injury of thy citizens. Thou shalt love thy friend as thyself. I am the Lord.”

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