100 Bible Verses about God Loves Everyone

Romans 5:8 ESV / 1,046 helpful votes

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

John 3:16 ESV / 963 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

1 John 4:8 ESV / 577 helpful votes

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

Matthew 5:43-48 ESV / 571 helpful votes

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? ...

Proverbs 8:17 ESV / 531 helpful votes

I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.

1 John 4:10 ESV / 446 helpful votes

In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 398 helpful votes

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

Acts 10:34-35 ESV / 389 helpful votes

So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.

Mark 12:31 ESV / 386 helpful votes

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

John 3:36 ESV / 303 helpful votes

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

1 John 4:16 ESV / 292 helpful votes

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

Proverbs 6:16-19 ESV / 285 helpful votes

There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 281 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.

1 John 3:1 ESV / 244 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 John 4:7 ESV / 240 helpful votes

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

Romans 8:7 ESV / 228 helpful votes

For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.

1 John 4:19 ESV / 221 helpful votes

We love because he first loved us.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 215 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 11:32 ESV / 212 helpful votes

For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all.

Malachi 2:17 ESV / 211 helpful votes

You have wearied the Lord with your words. But you say, “How have we wearied him?” By saying, “Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delights in them.” Or by asking, “Where is the God of justice?”

Colossians 3:14 ESV / 190 helpful votes

And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

John 13:34 ESV / 189 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.

Jeremiah 31:3 ESV / 181 helpful votes

The Lord appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.

Ephesians 2:4-5 ESV / 179 helpful votes

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

John 13:35 ESV / 178 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 176 helpful votes

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 174 helpful votes

The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 165 helpful votes

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

Psalm 11:5 ESV / 164 helpful votes

The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 163 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Romans 8:37-39 ESV / 160 helpful votes

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Psalm 86:15 ESV / 149 helpful votes

But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

1 John 4:7-8 ESV / 144 helpful votes

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

1 Peter 1:22 ESV / 144 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 15:13 ESV / 144 helpful votes

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

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 143 helpful votes

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Psalm 136:26 ESV / 141 helpful votes

Give thanks to the God of heaven, for his steadfast love endures forever.

John 15:12 ESV / 137 helpful votes

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

John 14:6 ESV / 135 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 134 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

John 15:9-10 ESV / 133 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.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 131 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 John 4:11 ESV / 124 helpful votes

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

1 John 4:18 ESV / 123 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.

Jude 1:21 ESV / 121 helpful votes

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

Deuteronomy 7:9 ESV / 121 helpful votes

Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

1 John 4:9-10 ESV / 117 helpful votes

In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Hosea 9:15 ESV / 117 helpful votes

Every evil of theirs is in Gilgal; there I began to hate them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house. I will love them no more; all their princes are rebels.

Mark 12:30-40 ESV / 112 helpful votes

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” And the scribe said to him, “You are right, Teacher. You have truly said that he is one, and there is no other besides him. And to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.” And when Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And after that no one dared to ask him any more questions. ...

John 3:16-17 ESV / 111 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 110 helpful votes

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

John 13:34-35 ESV / 110 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 Corinthians 16:14 ESV / 108 helpful votes

Let all that you do be done in love.

Romans 9:13 ESV / 106 helpful votes

As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 105 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 54:10 ESV / 105 helpful votes

For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 104 helpful votes

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; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Matthew 22:37-39 ESV / 103 helpful votes

And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

1 John 4:9 ESV / 102 helpful votes

In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.

Mark 12:30 ESV / 100 helpful votes

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

Malachi 1:2 ESV / 99 helpful votes

“I have loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau Jacob's brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob

1 John 2:2 ESV / 98 helpful votes

He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

Matthew 5:45 ESV / 98 helpful votes

So that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

1 John 4:10-11 ESV / 97 helpful votes

In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

John 15:16 ESV / 95 helpful votes

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Romans 13:8 ESV / 94 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 92 helpful votes

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

1 John 4:12 ESV / 91 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 4:1-21 ESV / 91 helpful votes

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. ...

John 14:21 ESV / 91 helpful votes

Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”

1 John 4:9-11 ESV / 88 helpful votes

In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Ephesians 5:2 ESV / 88 helpful votes

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

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 87 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

1 John 3:23 ESV / 86 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.

Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 86 helpful votes

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. ...

Luke 6:35 ESV / 86 helpful votes

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.

Psalm 5:5 ESV / 86 helpful votes

The boastful shall not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers.

John 15:9 ESV / 85 helpful votes

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.

1 Corinthians 13:8 ESV / 84 helpful votes

Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

John 17:1-26 ESV / 79 helpful votes

When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed. ...

1 John 4:21 ESV / 78 helpful votes

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

1 Thessalonians 3:12 ESV / 78 helpful votes

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

Romans 9:1-33 ESV / 74 helpful votes

I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit— that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh. They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises. To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen. ...

Romans 3:23 ESV / 74 helpful votes

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

1 John 3:11 ESV / 71 helpful votes

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

Romans 12:10 ESV / 71 helpful votes

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

Romans 5:5 ESV / 71 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.

Romans 6:1-23 ESV / 70 helpful votes

What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. ...

John 8:47 ESV / 70 helpful votes

Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.”

1 John 3:16 ESV / 67 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 1:14 ESV / 66 helpful votes

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 63 helpful votes

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

1 John 4:20 ESV / 62 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 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 61 helpful votes

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; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

Malachi 1:3 ESV / 61 helpful votes

But Esau I have hated. I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert.”

Romans 12:9 ESV / 59 helpful votes

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

Leviticus 20:23 ESV / 57 helpful votes

And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I detested them.

Psalm 52:8 ESV / 54 helpful votes

But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever.

1 Corinthians 13:3 ESV / 53 helpful votes

If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Matthew 5:44 ESV / 53 helpful votes

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

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