Love & Relationships

Bible Verses About selfless love

12 key scriptures

Discover 12 powerful Bible verses about selfless love. Study what Scripture teaches about this essential love & relationships topic.

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TranslationKey Verse: 1 Corinthians 13:4
King James (KJV)Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, vaunteth: or, is not rash

12 Key Scriptures

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, vaunteth: or, is not rash
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

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