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ἀγαπάω agapaō

“to love” · 143 times in the New Testament

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  • “love” 58
  • “loved” 52
  • “does not love” 5
  • “beloved” 4
  • “must love” 3
  • other ways 21
As a table, book by book
BookTimes
Matthew8
Mark5
Luke13
John37
Romans8
1 Corinthians2
2 Corinthians4
Galatians2
Ephesians10
Colossians2
1 Thessalonians2
2 Thessalonians2
2 Timothy2
Hebrews2
James3
1 Peter4
2 Peter1
1 John28
2 John2
3 John1
Jude1
Revelation4

How the BSB translates it

Each way the Berean Standard Bible puts it into English, and how often.

  1. love58
  2. loved52
  3. does not love5
  4. beloved4
  5. must love3
  6. do you love2
  7. should love2
  8. us love2
  9. beloved one1
  10. crave1
  11. did not love1
  12. do not love1
  13. 11 other ways11

Where it occurs

Grouped by how it’s translated, then by book. Each reference opens the verse.

“love” 58

  • Matthew 7

    • 5:43 …that it was said Love your neighbor and Hate…
    • 5:44 …But I tell you love your enemies and pray…
    • 5:46 …If you love those who love you…
    • 6:24 …hate the one and love the other or he…
    • 19:19 …father and mother and love your neighbor as yourself…
    • 22:37 …Jesus declared Love the Lord your God…
    • 22:39 …second is like it Love your neighbor as yourself…

  • Mark 4

    • 12:30 Love the Lord your God…
    • 12:31 …The second is this Love your neighbor as yourself…
    • 12:33 …and to love Him with all your…
    • 12:33 …all your strength and to love your neighbor as yourself…

  • Luke 10

    • 6:27 …will listen I say Love your enemies do good…
    • 6:32 …If you love those who love you…
    • 6:32 …you love those who love you what credit is…
    • 6:32 …sinners love those who love them…
    • 6:32 …to you Even sinners love those who love them…
    • 6:35 …But love your enemies do good…
    • 7:42 …them Which one then will love him more…
    • 10:27 …He answered Love the Lord your God…
    • 11:43 …to you Pharisees For you love the chief seats in…
    • 16:13 …hate the one and love the other or he…

  • John 7

    • 13:34 …commandment I give you Love one another As I…
    • 14:15 …If you love Me you will keep…
    • 14:21 …My Father and I will love him and reveal Myself…
    • 14:23 …My word My Father will love him and We will…
    • 14:31 …world may know that I love the Father Get up…
    • 15:12 …is My commandment that you love one another as I…
    • 15:17 …My command to you Love one another…

  • Romans 3

    • 8:28 …good of those who love Him who are called…
    • 13:8 …except to one another in love For he who loves…
    • 13:9 …in this one decree Love your neighbor as yourself…

  • 1 Corinthians 1

    • 2:9 …prepared for those who love Him…

  • 2 Corinthians 1

    • 12:15 …money and myself If I love you more will you…

  • Galatians 1

    • 5:14 …in a single decree Love your neighbor as yourself…

  • Ephesians 3

    • 5:25 …Husbands love your wives just as…
    • 5:28 …same way husbands ought to love their wives as their…
    • 6:24 …Grace to all who love our Lord Jesus Christ…

  • Colossians 1

    • 3:19 …Husbands love your wives and do…

  • 1 Thessalonians 1

    • 4:9 …been taught by God to love one another…

  • James 3

    • 1:12 …promised to those who love Him…
    • 2:5 …He promised those who love Him…
    • 2:8 …law stated in Scripture Love your neighbor as yourself…

  • 1 Peter 3

    • 1:22 …love for your brothers love one another deeply from…
    • 2:17 …everyone with high regard Love the brotherhood of believers…
    • 3:10 …For Whoever would love life and see good…

  • 1 John 9

    • 2:15 …Do not love the world or anything…
    • 3:14 …death to life because we love our brothers The one…
    • 4:11 …us we also ought to love one another…
    • 4:12 …seen God but if we love one another God remains…
    • 4:19 …We love because He first loved…
    • 4:20 …If anyone says I love God but hates his…
    • 4:20 …he has seen cannot love God whom he has…
    • 5:2 …this we know that we love the children of God…
    • 5:2 …children of God when we love God and keep His…

  • 2 John 2

    • 1:1 …her children whom I love in the truth and…
    • 1:5 …from the beginning that we love one another…

  • 3 John 1

    • 1:1 …beloved Gaius whom I love in the truth…

  • Revelation 1

    • 3:9 …will know that I love you…
“loved” 52

  • Mark 1

    • 10:21 …Jesus looked at him loved him and said to…

  • Luke 3

    • 7:5 …for he loves our nation and has…
    • 7:47 …have been forgiven for she has loved much But he who…
    • 7:47 …has been forgiven little loves little…

  • John 23

    • 3:16 …For God so loved the world that He…
    • 3:19 …the world but men loved the darkness rather than…
    • 3:35 …The Father loves the Son and has…
    • 10:17 …The reason the Father loves Me is that I…
    • 11:5 …Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister…
    • 12:43 …For they loved praise from men more…
    • 13:1 …were in the world He loved them to the very…
    • 13:23 …the one whom Jesus loved was reclining at His…
    • 13:34 …Love one another As I have loved you so you also…
    • 14:21 …is the one who loves Me The one who…
    • 14:21 …Me The one who loves Me will be loved…
    • 14:21 …one who loves Me will be loved by My Father and…
    • 14:23 …Jesus replied If anyone loves Me he will keep…
    • 14:28 …back to you If you loved Me you would rejoice…
    • 15:9 …As the Father has loved Me so have I…
    • 15:9 …has loved Me so have I loved you Remain in My…
    • 15:12 …love one another as I have loved you…
    • 17:23 …You sent Me and have loved them just as You…
    • 17:23 …loved them just as You have loved Me…
    • 17:24 …You gave Me because You loved Me before the foundation…
    • 19:26 …and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby He said…
    • 21:7 …the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter It…
    • 21:20 …the disciple whom Jesus loved following them He was…

  • Romans 3

    • 8:37 …conquerors through Him who loved us…
    • 9:13 …it is written Jacob I loved but Esau I hated…
    • 13:8 …love For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled…

  • 1 Corinthians 1

    • 8:3 …But the one who loves God is known by…

  • 2 Corinthians 1

    • 9:7 …or compulsion For God loves a cheerful giver…

  • Galatians 1

    • 2:20 …Son of God who loved me and gave Himself…

  • Ephesians 3

    • 5:2 …love just as Christ loved us and gave Himself…
    • 5:25 …wives just as Christ loved the church and gave…
    • 5:28 …who loves his wife loves himself…

  • 2 Thessalonians 1

    • 2:16 …Father who by grace has loved us and given us…

  • Hebrews 2

    • 1:9 You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness…
    • 12:6 …Lord disciplines the one He loves and He chastises every…

  • 2 Peter 1

    • 2:15 …son of Beor who loved the wages of wickedness…

  • 1 John 10

    • 2:10 …Whoever loves his brother remains in…
    • 2:15 …the world If anyone loves the world the love…
    • 4:7 …from God Everyone who loves has been born of…
    • 4:10 …this not that we loved God but that He…
    • 4:10 …God but that He loved us and sent His…
    • 4:11 …Beloved if God so loved us we also ought…
    • 4:19 …love because He first loved us…
    • 4:21 …commandment from Him Whoever loves God must love his…
    • 5:1 …God and everyone who loves the Father also loves…
    • 5:1 …loves the Father also loves those born of Him…

  • Jude 1

    • 1:1 …those who are called loved by God the Father…

  • Revelation 1

    • 1:5 …earth To Him who loves us and has released…
“does not love” 5

  • John 1

    • 14:24 …Whoever does not love Me does not keep…

  • 1 John 4

    • 3:10 …nor is anyone who does not love his brother…
    • 3:14 …brothers The one who does not love remains in death…
    • 4:8 …Whoever does not love does not know God…
    • 4:20 …liar For anyone who does not love his brother whom he…
“beloved” 4

  • Romans 2

    • 9:25 …Beloved who is not My beloved
    • 9:25 …I will call her My Beloved who is not My…

  • Colossians 1

    • 3:12 …of God holy and beloved clothe yourselves with hearts…

  • Revelation 1

    • 20:9 …the saints and the beloved city But fire came…
“must love” 3

  • John 1

    • 13:34 …you so you also must love one another…

  • Ephesians 1

    • 5:33 …one of you also must love his wife as he…

  • 1 John 1

    • 4:21 …Him Whoever loves God must love his brother as well…
“do you love” 2

  • John 2

    • 21:15 …Simon son of John do you love Me more than these…
    • 21:16 …Simon son of John do you love Me Yes Lord he…
“should love” 2

  • 1 John 2

    • 3:11 …heard from the beginning We should love one another…
    • 3:23 …Son Jesus Christ and we should love one another just as…
“us love” 2

  • 1 John 2

    • 3:18 …Little children let us love not in word and…
    • 4:7 …Beloved let us love one another because love…
“who love” 1

  • Matthew 1

    • 5:46 …If you love those who love you what reward will…
“would love” 1

  • John 1

    • 8:42 …God were your Father you would love Me for I have…
“having loved” 1

  • John 1

    • 13:1 …return to the Father Having loved His own who were…
“for” 1

  • John 1

    • 17:26 …so that the love You have for Me may be in…
“do not love” 1

  • 2 Corinthians 1

    • 11:11 …Why Because I do not love you God knows I…
“love me” 1

  • 2 Corinthians 1

    • 12:15 …I love you more will you love me less…
“beloved one” 1

  • Ephesians 1

    • 1:6 …given us in the Beloved One
“us” 1

  • Ephesians 1

    • 2:4 …of His great love for us God who is rich…
“who loves” 1

  • Ephesians 1

    • 5:28 …their own bodies He who loves his wife loves himself…
“who are beloved” 1

  • 1 Thessalonians 1

    • 1:4 …Brothers who are beloved by God we know…
“who are loved” 1

  • 2 Thessalonians 1

    • 2:13 …God for you brothers who are loved by the Lord because…
“crave” 1

  • 2 Timothy 1

    • 4:8 …but to all who crave His appearing…
“love of” 1

  • 2 Timothy 1

    • 4:10 …because Demas in his love of this world has deserted…
“love him” 1

  • 1 Peter 1

    • 1:8 …have not seen Him you love Him and though you do…
“did not love” 1

  • Revelation 1

    • 12:11 …of their testimony And they did not love their lives so as…

The Hebrew and Greek words, their glosses and grammar: STEP Bible (CC BY 4.0). The English: the Berean Standard Bible, which also gives which English words render which. Counts are ours.