Bible Verses About Selfless Love
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for selfless love, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,080 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 13:4-8. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Selfless Love
1 Corinthians 13:4-8172 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
John 15:13151 votes
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
1 John 4:897 votes
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Philippians 2:3-1093 votes
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
1 John 3:1861 votes
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
1 John 4:1659 votes
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.
Matthew 20:26-2845 votes
But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;
John 3:1640 votes
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.
1 Corinthians 13:4-539 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Romans 5:838 votes
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
1 Corinthians 13:1-332 votes
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.
Romans 13:9-1030 votes
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.
Ephesians 5:2526 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Matthew 26:2822 votes
For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
Matthew 25:2121 votes
His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
1 John 5:321 votes
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
John 21:15-1620 votes
So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs.
Romans 13:8-1020 votes
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
Titus 2:11-1219 votes
For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
1 Peter 2:1-2519 votes
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
John 15:1-2716 votes
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
2 Corinthians 4:3-416 votes
But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
Ephesians 5:31-3213 votes
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
Ephesians 2:1910 votes
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
What does the Bible say about selfless love?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 on the subject of selfless love. Across 1,080 votes, 24 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including John 15:13, 1 John 4:8, Philippians 2:3-10. This page lists all 24 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.