14 Bible Verses About Loving Others Unconditionally

Last Updated: 5 March 2021

Myriads of studies show that when people have close and positive relationship with others, they enjoy many physical and mental benefits.

But, more importantly, the Scripture tells us that loving and caring for each other is one of the most important things we are asked to do.

So, this article is a compilation of some of the most well-known Bible verses about loving others unconditionally. May they inspire you to love everyone around you, including those you deem unworthy of your affection and compassion.

Mark 12:31

You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these.

1 John 4:7-8

Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

John 13:34-35

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.

1 John 4:19-21

If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

Romans 13:8

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

Ephesians 4:1-3

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love, being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Philippians 2:1-4

If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion, make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind; doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

1 Peter 1:22-23

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently, having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

1 John 4:11

Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

Matthew 5:43-45

You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you, that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

1 John 3:16

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

1 John 2:10

He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.

Hebrews 13:1–2

Let brotherly love continue. Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.

1 Thessalonians 4:9

Concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.