What Does the Bible Say About Love One Another As I Have Loved You? (2024)

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John 13:34ESV / 21 helpful votes John 13:34-35ESV / 9 helpful votes 1 John 4:7ESV / 7 helpful votes 1 Peter 1:22ESV / 7 helpful votes John 15:12ESV / 7 helpful votes 1 John 3:18ESV / 6 helpful votes 1 John 3:16ESV / 6 helpful votes John 15:13ESV / 6 helpful votes John 13:35ESV / 6 helpful votes 1 John 4:8ESV / 5 helpful votes 1 John 4:20ESV / 4 helpful votes 1 John 4:11ESV / 4 helpful votes 1 John 3:23ESV / 4 helpful votes 1 John 3:17ESV / 4 helpful votes Ephesians 5:2ESV / 4 helpful votes Ephesians 4:32ESV / 4 helpful votes 1 Corinthians 16:14ESV / 4 helpful votes Romans 5:5ESV / 4 helpful votes John 17:26ESV / 4 helpful votes Leviticus 19:18ESV / 4 helpful votes 2 John 1:5ESV / 3 helpful votes 1 John 5:1ESV / 3 helpful votes 1 John 3:14ESV / 3 helpful votes 1 John 3:11ESV / 3 helpful votes 1 John 3:1ESV / 3 helpful votes 1 Peter 4:8ESV / 3 helpful votes 1 Peter 2:17ESV / 3 helpful votes James 2:5ESV / 3 helpful votes Hebrews 10:24ESV / 3 helpful votes Philemon 1:5ESV / 3 helpful votes 1 Timothy 1:5ESV / 3 helpful votes 1 Thessalonians 4:9ESV / 3 helpful votes 1 Thessalonians 1:3ESV / 3 helpful votes Colossians 1:4ESV / 3 helpful votes Ephesians 5:25ESV / 3 helpful votes Galatians 5:13ESV / 3 helpful votes 1 Corinthians 13:1-13ESV / 3 helpful votes Romans 13:8-10ESV / 3 helpful votes Romans 13:8ESV / 3 helpful votes Romans 12:10ESV / 3 helpful votes Romans 8:28ESV / 3 helpful votes Romans 5:8ESV / 3 helpful votes John 20:1ESV / 3 helpful votes John 16:27ESV / 3 helpful votes John 15:17ESV / 3 helpful votes John 15:9-17ESV / 3 helpful votes Luke 11:42ESV / 3 helpful votes Mark 12:31ESV / 3 helpful votes Matthew 28:19ESV / 3 helpful votes Genesis 19:1-38ESV / 3 helpful votes Revelation 2:4ESV / 2 helpful votes Jude 1:21ESV / 2 helpful votes 2 John 1:6ESV / 2 helpful votes 1 John 5:2ESV / 2 helpful votes 1 John 5:1-6ESV / 2 helpful votes 1 John 4:21ESV / 2 helpful votes 1 John 4:18ESV / 2 helpful votes 1 John 4:12ESV / 2 helpful votes 1 John 2:15ESV / 2 helpful votes 1 John 2:5ESV / 2 helpful votes 2 Peter 1:7ESV / 2 helpful votes 1 Peter 3:8ESV / 2 helpful votes 1 Peter 1:8ESV / 2 helpful votes James 2:8ESV / 2 helpful votes James 1:12ESV / 2 helpful votes Hebrews 12:6ESV / 2 helpful votes Hebrews 6:10ESV / 2 helpful votes Hebrews 6:9ESV / 2 helpful votes Philemon 1:9ESV / 2 helpful votes 2 Timothy 4:8ESV / 2 helpful votes 2 Timothy 2:22ESV / 2 helpful votes 2 Timothy 1:13ESV / 2 helpful votes 2 Timothy 1:7ESV / 2 helpful votes 1 Timothy 6:11ESV / 2 helpful votes 1 Timothy 6:10ESV / 2 helpful votes 1 Timothy 6:2ESV / 2 helpful votes 1 Timothy 5:10ESV / 2 helpful votes 1 Timothy 4:12ESV / 2 helpful votes 1 Timothy 2:15ESV / 2 helpful votes 1 Timothy 1:14ESV / 2 helpful votes 1 Timothy 1:10ESV / 2 helpful votes 2 Thessalonians 3:5ESV / 2 helpful votes 1 Thessalonians 5:8ESV / 2 helpful votes 1 Thessalonians 3:12ESV / 2 helpful votes 1 Thessalonians 2:8ESV / 2 helpful votes 1 Thessalonians 1:4ESV / 2 helpful votes Colossians 4:7ESV / 2 helpful votes Colossians 3:12ESV / 2 helpful votes Colossians 3:12-14ESV / 2 helpful votes Colossians 2:2ESV / 2 helpful votes Colossians 1:8ESV / 2 helpful votes Philippians 4:1ESV / 2 helpful votes Philippians 2:2ESV / 2 helpful votes Philippians 1:9ESV / 2 helpful votes Ephesians 6:24ESV / 2 helpful votes Ephesians 5:28ESV / 2 helpful votes Ephesians 4:15ESV / 2 helpful votes Ephesians 4:2ESV / 2 helpful votes Ephesians 2:4ESV / 2 helpful votes Galatians 6:10ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 13:34ESV / 21 helpful votes

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.

John 13:34-35ESV / 9 helpful votes

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. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

1 John 4:7ESV / 7 helpful votes

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

1 Peter 1:22ESV / 7 helpful votes

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

John 15:12ESV / 7 helpful votes

“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

1 John 3:18ESV / 6 helpful votes

Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

1 John 3:16ESV / 6 helpful votes

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

John 15:13ESV / 6 helpful votes

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

John 13:35ESV / 6 helpful votes

By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

1 John 4:8ESV / 5 helpful votes

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

1 John 4:20ESV / 4 helpful votes

If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

1 John 4:11ESV / 4 helpful votes

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

1 John 3:23ESV / 4 helpful votes

And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.

1 John 3:17ESV / 4 helpful votes

But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?

Ephesians 5:2ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 4:32ESV / 4 helpful votes

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

1 Corinthians 16:14ESV / 4 helpful votes

Let all that you do be done in love.

Romans 5:5ESV / 4 helpful votes

And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

John 17:26ESV / 4 helpful votes

I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

Leviticus 19:18ESV / 4 helpful votes

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.

2 John 1:5ESV / 3 helpful votes

And now I ask you, dear lady—not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another.

1 John 5:1ESV / 3 helpful votes

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.

1 John 3:14ESV / 3 helpful votes

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 3:11ESV / 3 helpful votes

For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

1 John 3:1ESV / 3 helpful votes

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 Peter 4:8ESV / 3 helpful votes

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

1 Peter 2:17ESV / 3 helpful votes

Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.

James 2:5ESV / 3 helpful votes

Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?

Hebrews 10:24ESV / 3 helpful votes

And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,

Philemon 1:5ESV / 3 helpful votes

Because I hear of your love and of the faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints,

1 Timothy 1:5ESV / 3 helpful votes

The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.

1 Thessalonians 4:9ESV / 3 helpful votes

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 1:3ESV / 3 helpful votes

Remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Colossians 1:4ESV / 3 helpful votes

Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints,

Ephesians 5:25ESV / 3 helpful votes

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Galatians 5:13ESV / 3 helpful votes

For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13ESV / 3 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. 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; ...

Romans 13:8-10ESV / 3 helpful votes

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Romans 13:8ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Romans 12:10ESV / 3 helpful votes

Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

Romans 8:28ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Romans 5:8ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

John 20:1ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.

John 16:27ESV / 3 helpful votes

For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

John 15:17ESV / 3 helpful votes

These things I command you, so that you will love one another.

John 15:9-17ESV / 3 helpful votes

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. ...

Luke 11:42ESV / 3 helpful votes

“But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

Mark 12:31ESV / 3 helpful votes

The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Matthew 28:19ESV / 3 helpful votes

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Genesis 19:1-38ESV / 3 helpful votes

The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth and said, “My lords, please turn aside to your servant's house and spend the night and wash your feet. Then you may rise up early and go on your way.” They said, “No; we will spend the night in the town square.” But he pressed them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house. And he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house. And they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.” ...

Revelation 2:4ESV / 2 helpful votes

But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.

Jude 1:21ESV / 2 helpful votes

Keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.

2 John 1:6ESV / 2 helpful votes

And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.

1 John 5:2ESV / 2 helpful votes

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.

1 John 5:1-6ESV / 2 helpful votes

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? ...

1 John 4:21ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

1 John 4:18ESV / 2 helpful votes

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 4:12ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

1 John 2:15ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

1 John 2:5ESV / 2 helpful votes

But whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him:

2 Peter 1:7ESV / 2 helpful votes

And godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.

1 Peter 3:8ESV / 2 helpful votes

Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.

1 Peter 1:8ESV / 2 helpful votes

Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory,

James 2:8ESV / 2 helpful votes

If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

James 1:12ESV / 2 helpful votes

Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.

Hebrews 12:6ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.”

Hebrews 6:10ESV / 2 helpful votes

For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.

Hebrews 6:9ESV / 2 helpful votes

Though we speak in this way, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things—things that belong to salvation.

Philemon 1:9ESV / 2 helpful votes

Yet for love's sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—

2 Timothy 4:8ESV / 2 helpful votes

Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.

2 Timothy 2:22ESV / 2 helpful votes

So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

2 Timothy 1:13ESV / 2 helpful votes

Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 1:7ESV / 2 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

1 Timothy 6:11ESV / 2 helpful votes

But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.

1 Timothy 6:10ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.

1 Timothy 6:2ESV / 2 helpful votes

Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved. Teach and urge these things.

1 Timothy 5:10ESV / 2 helpful votes

And having a reputation for good works: if she has brought up children, has shown hospitality, has washed the feet of the saints, has cared for the afflicted, and has devoted herself to every good work.

1 Timothy 4:12ESV / 2 helpful votes

Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

1 Timothy 2:15ESV / 2 helpful votes

Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.

1 Timothy 1:14ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

1 Timothy 1:10ESV / 2 helpful votes

The sexually immoral, men who practice hom*osexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,

2 Thessalonians 3:5ESV / 2 helpful votes

May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.

1 Thessalonians 5:8ESV / 2 helpful votes

But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.

1 Thessalonians 3:12ESV / 2 helpful votes

And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you,

1 Thessalonians 2:8ESV / 2 helpful votes

So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves, because you had become very dear to us.

1 Thessalonians 1:4ESV / 2 helpful votes

For we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you,

Colossians 4:7ESV / 2 helpful votes

Tychicus will tell you all about my activities. He is a beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord.

Colossians 3:12ESV / 2 helpful votes

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,

Colossians 3:12-14ESV / 2 helpful votes

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

Colossians 2:2ESV / 2 helpful votes

That their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ,

Colossians 1:8ESV / 2 helpful votes

And has made known to us your love in the Spirit.

Philippians 4:1ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved.

Philippians 2:2ESV / 2 helpful votes

Complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.

Philippians 1:9ESV / 2 helpful votes

And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment,

Ephesians 6:24ESV / 2 helpful votes

Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with love incorruptible.

Ephesians 5:28ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Ephesians 4:15ESV / 2 helpful votes

Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,

Ephesians 4:2ESV / 2 helpful votes

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

Ephesians 2:4ESV / 2 helpful votes

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,

Galatians 6:10ESV / 2 helpful votes

So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.

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