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14 Bible Verses About Loving Others Unconditionally

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Summary

  • Romans 5:8 places Christ’s death “while we were still sinners,” and Romans 5:10 says the people he died for were God’s enemies.
  • 1 John 4:11 and 4:19 present love for others as following from God’s love, which came first.
  • Jesus grounds love for enemies in God’s own conduct: sun and rain on the evil and the good (Matthew 5:45), and kindness to the ungrateful and wicked (Luke 6:35).
  • “Love your neighbor as yourself” comes from Leviticus 19:18, and the same chapter extends it to the foreigner (Leviticus 19:34).
  • 1 Corinthians 13 says love keeps no record of wrongs and also that it “does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.”

The Bible asks for love that does not wait to be deserved, and it begins with God’s own love, given before anyone loved him back. John writes “We love because he first loved us” (1 John 4:19), and Paul says Christ died for people “while we were still sinners” (Romans 5:8). Jesus applies the same pattern to enemies (Matthew 5:44) and to lending “without expecting to get anything back” (Luke 6:35), and Paul says love “keeps no record of wrongs”…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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