Bible Verses About Love & Compassion

Love is patient; love is kind. Love does not envy, does not show off, is not puffed up. It does not behave shamefully, it does not look for its own advantage, it does not lose its temper, and it does not keep a tally of wrongs. It takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, but shares the joy of the truth. There is nothing love cannot bear, no time when it stops believing or hoping, nothing it cannot endure.

I am giving you a new commandment: love one another. In the same way that I have loved you, you too must love one another.

Be kind to one another and full of compassion. Forgive each other freely, just as God has forgiven you in Christ.

Jesus answered him, “’Love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, and with your whole mind.’ This command is the great one, the first of all. A second command is of the same kind: ‘Love your neighbor as you love yourself.’

But I tell you: love your enemies, and pray for the people who persecute you,

Each of you should give the amount you have settled on in your own heart, not with regret and not because you feel you must. God loves a giver who gives gladly.

Most important of all, keep your love for one another strong and unfailing, because love covers a great many sins.

Love never comes to an end. But prophecies will be done away with; tongues will fall silent; knowledge will be done away with.

Dear children, let us love not by what we say or with our tongues, but by what we do and in truth.

The second is this: ‘You are to love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these two.”

Let love guide the way you live, as Christ loved us and handed himself over for our sake, an offering and sacrifice to God, a fragrance that pleased him.

Over all of these put on love, which binds everything together and makes it complete.