Do you struggle to receive God’s love? Is it hard to extend love to those who may not be easy to love? You’re not alone.

Understanding that God knows everything about us, loves us unconditionally, and sacrificed His son for us allows us to answer His call to love others deeply. Grab this FREE Scripture writing plan on how God knows us completely yet loves us fully. May all we do be done in love.

Bible Verses on Being Known By God

  • Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” Jeremiah 1:5
  • For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. Psalm 139:13
  • Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. Psalm 139:16
  • You have searched me, LORD, and you know me. Psalm 139:1
  • You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. Psalm 139:2
  • You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Psalm 139:3
  • Before a word is on my tongue you, LORD, know it completely. Psalm 139:4
  • I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. Psalm 139:14

Bible Verses About God’s Sacrificial Love

  • Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. John 15:13
  • But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8
  • But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)… Ephesians 2:4-5
  • The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness. Jeremiah 31:3
  • But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness. Psalm 86:15
  • And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 1 John 4:16

Bible Verses About God’s Unconditional Love

  • See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 1 John 3:1
  • For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:38-39
  • The LORD your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.” Zephaniah 3:17
  • There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love. We love, because He first loved us. 1 John 4:18-19
  • Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever. 1 Chronicles 16:34
  • Your lovingkindness, O LORD, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness reaches to the skies. Psalm 36:5

Bible Verses on Love as a Command

  • “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. “By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” John 13:34-35
  • I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Galatians 2:20
  • Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 1 John 4:7-8
  • This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. 1 John 3:16
  • Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. 1 Peter 4:8

Bible Verses on How We Are to Love Others

  • Let all that you do be done in love. 1 Corinthians 16:14
  • And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. Colossians 3:14
  • Do not let love and faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart, so you will find favor and good repute in the sight of God and man. Proverbs 3:3-4
  • Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart. 1 Peter 1:22
  • Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor; Romans 12:9-10
  • And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13

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