What is love?

What does the Bible say about love?

“God commandeth his love toward us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

Romans 5:8

“He that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him. If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him.”

John 14:21,23

“He loveth him that followeth after righteousness.”

Proverbs 15:9

“If you love me, keep my commandments.”

John 14:15

“He that covereth a transgression seeketh love: but he that repeats a matter separates friends.”

Proverbs 17:9

“If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my father’s commandments, and abide in his love.”

John 15:10

“For this is the love of God that we keep His commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.”

I John 5:3

“And we have known and believed the love God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.”

I John 4:16

“This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.”

John 15:12-14

“These things I command you that ye love one another.”

John 15:17

“A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another, as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.”

John 13:34,35

“And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.”

Colossians 3:14

“And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.”

I Corinthians 13:13

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