Adults and everyone · 10 passages
Love and Kindness
Verses about God's love and the love he calls us to show.
1 Corinthians 13:4–7 WEB
4Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, 5doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; 6doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
John 13:34–35 WEB
34A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another. 35By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
1 John 4:7–8 WEB
7Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
Ephesians 4:32 WEB
32And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
Romans 5:8 WEB
8But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
John 15:13 WEB
13Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Micah 6:8 WEB
8He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does the LORD require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
Colossians 3:14 WEB
14Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
1 Peter 4:8 WEB
8And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
Galatians 5:22–23 WEB
22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, 23gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.