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All Verses with agape in the New Testament

Jesus using agape in the Gospels:

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Lacking Agape Love:

  • Mat 24:12 KJV - And because iniquity shall abound , the agape of many shall wax cold .
  • Luk 11:42 KJV - But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the agape of God: these ought ye to have done , and not to leave the other undone .
  • Jhn 5:42 KJV - But I know you, that ye have not the agape of God in you.

Having Agape Love:

  • Jhn 13:35 KJV - By this shall all [men] know that ye are my disciples, if ye have agape one to another.
  • Jhn 15:9 KJV - As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my agape.
  • Jhn 15:10 KJV - If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my agape; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his agape.
  • Jhn 15:13 KJV - Greater agape hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
  • Jhn 17:26 KJV - And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare [it]: that the agape wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

Paul's use of agape:

  • Rom 5:5 KJV - And hope maketh not ashamed ; because the agape of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
  • Rom 5:8 KJV - But God commendeth his agape toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
  • Rom 8:35 KJV - Who shall separate us from the agape of Christ? [shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
  • Rom 8:39 KJV - Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the agape of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  • Rom 12:9 KJV - [Let] agape be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
  • Rom 13:10 KJV - Agape worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore agape [is] the fulfilling of the law.
  • Rom 14:15 KJV - But if thy brother be grieved with [thy] meat, now walkest thou not agape. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died .
  • Rom 15:30 KJV - Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the agape of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in [your] prayers to God for me;
  • 1Cr 4:21 KJV - What will ye ? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in agape, and [in] the spirit of meekness?

  • 1Cr 8:1 KJV - Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up , but agape edifieth .
  • 1Cr 13:1 KJV - Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not agape, I am become [as] sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
  • 1Cr 13:2 KJV - And though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not agape, I am nothing.
  • 1Cr 13:3 KJV - And though I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and though I give my body to be burned , and have not agape, it profiteth me nothing.
  • 1Cr 13:4 KJV - agape suffereth long , [and] is kind ; agape envieth not; agape vaunteth not itself , is not puffed up ,
  • 1Cr 13:8 KJV - agape never faileth : but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall fail ; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease ; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall vanish away .
  • 1Cr 13:13 KJV - And now abideth faith, hope, agape, these three; but the greatest of these [is] agape.
  • 1Cr 14:1 KJV - Follow after agape, and desire spiritual [gifts], but rather that ye may prophesy .
  • 1Cr 16:14 KJV - Let all your things be done with agape.
  • 1Cr 16:24 KJV - My agape [be] with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen. [[[The first [epistle] to the Corinthians was written from Philippi by Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus and Timotheus.]]]
  • 2Cr 2:4 KJV - For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved , but that ye might know the agape which I have more abundantly unto you.

  • 2Cr 2:8 KJV - Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm [your] agape toward him.
  • 2Cr 5:14 KJV - For the agape of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge , that if one died for all, then were all dead :
  • 2Cr 6:6 KJV - By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by agape unfeigned,
  • 2Cr 8:7 KJV - Therefore, as ye abound in every [thing, in] faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and [in] all diligence, and [in] your agape to us, [see] that ye abound in this grace also.
  • 2Cr 8:8 KJV - I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your agape.
  • 2Cr 8:24 KJV - Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your agape, and of our boasting on your behalf.
  • 2Cr 13:11 KJV - Finally, brethren, farewell . Be perfect , be of good comfort , be of one mind , live in peace ; and the God of agape and peace shall be with you.
  • 2Cr 13:14 KJV - The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the agape of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, [be] with you all. Amen. [[[The second [epistle] to the Corinthians was written from Philippi, [a city] of Macedonia, by Titus and Lucas.]]]
  • Gal 5:6 KJV - For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by agape.
  • Gal 5:13 KJV - For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only [use] not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by agape serve one another.
  • Gal 5:22 KJV - But the fruit of the Spirit is agape, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

  • Eph 1:4 KJV - According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in agape:
  • Eph 1:15 KJV - Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and agape unto all the saints,
  • Eph 2:4 KJV - But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great agape wherewith he loved us,
  • Eph 3:17 KJV - That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in agape,
  • Eph 3:19 KJV - And to know the agape of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
  • Eph 4:2 KJV - With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in agape;
  • Eph 4:15 KJV - But speaking the truth in agape, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, [even] Christ:
  • Eph 4:16 KJV - From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in agape.
  • Eph 5:2 KJV - And walk in agape, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
  • Eph 6:23 KJV - Peace [be] to the brethren, and agape with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
  • Phl 1:9 KJV - And this I pray , that your agape may abound yet more and more in knowledge and [in] all judgment;
  • Phl 1:17 KJV - But the other of agape, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.
  • Phl 2:1 KJV - If [there be] therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of agape, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
  • Phl 2:2 KJV - Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded , having the same agape, [being] of one accord, of one mind .

  • Col 1:4 KJV - Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the agape [which ye have] to all the saints,
  • Col 1:8 KJV - Who also declared unto us your agape in the Spirit.
  • Col 1:13 KJV - Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated [us] into the kingdom of his agape Son:
  • Col 2:2 KJV - That their hearts might be comforted , being knit together in agape, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
  • Col 3:14 KJV - And above all these things [put on] agape, which is the bond of perfectness.
  • 1Th 1:3 KJV - Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of agape, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
  • 1Th 3:6 KJV - But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and agape, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also [to see] you:
  • 1Th 3:12 KJV - And the Lord make you to increase and abound in agape one toward another, and toward all [men], even as we [do] toward you:
  • 1Th 5:8 KJV - But let us, who are of the day, be sober , putting on the breastplate of faith and agape; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
  • 1Th 5:13 KJV - And to esteem them very highly in agape for their work's sake. [And] be at peace among yourselves.
  • 2Th 1:3 KJV - We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly , and the agape of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth ;
  • 2Th 2:10 KJV - And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish ; because they received not the agape of the truth, that they might be saved .
  • 2Th 3:5 KJV - And the Lord direct your hearts into the agape of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.

  • 1Ti 1:5 KJV - Now the end of the commandment is agape out of a pure heart, and [of] a good conscience, and [of] faith unfeigned:
  • 1Ti 1:14 KJV - And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and agape which is in Christ Jesus.
  • 1Ti 2:15 KJV - Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and agape and holiness with sobriety.
  • 1Ti 4:12 KJV - Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in agape, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
  • 1Ti 6:11 KJV - But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, agape, patience, meekness.
  • 2Ti 1:7 KJV - For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of agape, and of a sound mind.
  • 2Ti 1:13 KJV - Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and agape which is in Christ Jesus.
  • 2Ti 2:22 KJV - Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, agape, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
  • 2Ti 3:10 KJV - But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, agape, patience,
  • Tts 2:2 KJV - That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in agape, in patience.
  • Phm 1:5 KJV - Hearing of thy agape and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints;
  • Phm 1:7 KJV - For we have great joy and consolation in thy agape, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.
  • Phm 1:9 KJV - Yet for agape sake I rather beseech [thee], being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

Other New Testament Usage:

  • Hbr 6:10 KJV - For God [is] not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of agape, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister .
  • Hbr 10:24 KJV - And let us consider one another to provoke unto agape and to good works:
  • 1Pe 4:8 KJV - And above all things have fervent agape among yourselves: for charity[26] shall cover the multitude of sins.
  • 1Pe 5:14 KJV - Greet ye one another with a kiss of agape. Peace [be] with you all that are in Christ Jesus. Amen.
  • 2Pe 1:7 KJV - And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness agape.
  • 1Jo 2:5 KJV - But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the agape of God perfected : hereby know we that we are in him.
  • 1Jo 2:15 KJV - Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the agape of the Father is not in him.
  • 1Jo 3:1 KJV - Behold , what manner of agape the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
  • 1Jo 3:16 KJV - Hereby perceive we the agape [of God], because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down [our] lives for the brethren.
  • 1Jo 3:17 KJV - But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels [of compassion] from him, how dwelleth the agape of God in him?
  • 1Jo 4:7 KJV - Beloved, let us love one another: for agape is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
  • 1Jo 4:8 KJV - He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is agape.
  • 1Jo 4:9 KJV - In this was manifested the agape of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
  • 1Jo 4:10 KJV - Herein is agape, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.
  • 1Jo 4:12 KJV - No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his agape is perfected in us.
  • 1Jo 4:16 KJV - And we have known and believed the agape that God hath to us. God is agape; and he that dwelleth in agape dwelleth in God, and God in him.
  • 1Jo 4:17 KJV - Herein is our agape made perfect , that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is , so are we in this world.
  • 1Jo 4:18 KJV - There is no fear in agape; but perfect agape casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in agape.
  • 1Jo 5:3 KJV - For this is the agape of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

  • 2Jo 1:3 KJV - Grace be with you, mercy, [and] peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and agape.
  • 2Jo 1:6 KJV - And this is agape, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
  • 3Jo 1:6 KJV - Which have borne witness of thy agape before the church: whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, thou shalt do well:
  • Jud 1:2 KJV - Mercy unto you, and peace, and agape, be multiplied .
  • Jud 1:12 KJV - These are spots in your feasts of agape, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds [they are] without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead , plucked up by the roots ;
  • Jud 1:21 KJV - Keep yourselves in the agape of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

Endtimes Agape:

  • Rev 2:4 KJV - Nevertheless I have [somewhat] against thee, because thou hast left thy first agape.
  • Rev 2:19 KJV - I know thy works, and agape, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last [to be] more than the first.
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 May your life be filled with a powerful agape love for God and for others sacrificing in charity and may all of the fruits of His Spirit in you be infused with this Love because He first loved us and gave His only son so that we could have life and that life... more abundantly.
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