Bible Verses About Love
The Bible says “God is love” and shows it supremely at the cross. These verses describe God’s love for us, the love we owe Him with all our heart, and the patient, self-giving love Christians are called to show one another.
29 verses about love (KJV)
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
We love him, because he first loved us.
Behold, what manner of love 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.
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Let all your things be done with charity.
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.
Guided journeys on love
Go deeper one day at a time: each day is a passage, a reflection, a question and a prayer.
Marriage: Love That Lasts
7 days on love, faithfulness and partnership
- Day 1: Not good to be alone — Genesis 2:18-25“And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and…”
- Day 2: Love strong as death — Song of Solomon 8:6-7“Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most…”
- Day 3: Love that gives itself — Ephesians 5:21-28“Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as…”
- Day 4: A threefold cord — Ecclesiastes 4:9-12“Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he…”
- Day 5: Dwelling with understanding — 1 Peter 3:7-9“Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your…”
- Day 6: Honouring one another — Romans 12:9-13“Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one…”
- Day 7: Because he first loved us — 1 John 4:16-19“And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Herein is our love made perfect, that we…”
Friendship
7 days on being and finding a true friend
- Day 1: Knit together — 1 Samuel 18:1-4“And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. And Saul…”
- Day 2: Where you go, I will go — Ruth 1:16-18“And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be…”
- Day 3: Faithful wounds — Proverbs 27:5-10“Open rebuke is better than secret love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul…”
- Day 4: Sitting in silence — Job 2:11-13“Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the…”
- Day 5: Friends who carry you — Mark 2:1-5“And again he entered into Capernaum after some days; and it was noised that he was in the house. And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to…”
- Day 6: I have called you friends — John 15:12-17“This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye…”
- Day 7: Build one another up — 1 Thessalonians 5:11-15“Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord…”
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Scripture text: King James Version (public domain).