real love
What does the Bible say about real love? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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5but hope is not unfounded, because the love of God is poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
34I give you a new commandment: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, so also must you love one another.
10The love of neighbor does no harm. Therefore, love is the plenitude of the law.
3For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not heavy.
8Whoever does not love, does not know God. For God is love.
5Charity is not ambitious, does not seek for itself, is not provoked to anger, devises no evil.
55Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. 56For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 57Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. 58Just as the living Father has sent me and I live because of the Father, so also whoever eats me, the same shall live because of me. 59This is the bread that descends from heaven. It is not like the manna that your fathers ate, for they died. Whoever eats this bread shall live forever.”
16For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life.
13No one has a greater love than this: that he lay down his life for his friends.
1The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him, in order to make known to his servants the things that must soon occur, and which he signified by sending his Angel to his servant John;
15If you love me, keep my commandments.
13But for now, these three continue: faith, hope, and charity. And the greatest of these is charity.
36But I say to you, that for every idle word which men will have spoken, they shall render an account in the day of judgment. 37For by your words shall you be justified, and by your words shall you be condemned.”
8But God demonstrates his love for us in that, while we were yet sinners, at the proper time,