SinaiBible verses about Love
Sacrificial Love
Love measured by what it costs the one giving it.
10 verses · World English Bible, with the American Standard Version beneath
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
ASV Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
ASV Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?
ASV But whoso hath the world’s goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him?
Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
ASV and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.
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.
ASV doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself; not looking each of you to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
ASV I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die.
ASV For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: for peradventure for the good man some one would even dare to die.
For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
ASV For the Son of man also came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died. He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
ASV For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died; and he died for all, that they that live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto him who for their sakes died and rose again.
For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
ASV for God is not unrighteous to forget your work and the love which ye showed toward his name, in that ye ministered unto the saints, and still do minister.