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Bible Verses About Love

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Reflection

Love is the pulse of Scripture—from God’s covenant faithfulness to Israel, to the cross where love laid down its life. Every command, every story, every song eventually leads here.

Biblical love is not mere sentiment. It is holy affection expressed in action: patience that endures, kindness that moves toward the other, truth that refuses to abandon. Jesus summarizes the law as love for God and neighbor. Paul describes love that does not envy or boast, that bears all things. John says we love because He first loved us—so our love is always a response before it is an achievement.

These verses are for marriages and friendships, for enemies and strangers, for the days when loving feels easy and the days when it costs. Let them re-center you on the love of Christ that will not let you go. As that love fills you, it overflows—into worship, service, and the quiet choices that look like Jesus.

Scripture

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  1. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

    1 Corinthians 13:4 BSB
  2. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.

    1 Corinthians 13:5 BSB
  3. And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.

    1 Corinthians 13:13 BSB
  4. Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

    1 John 4:7 BSB
  5. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

    1 John 4:8 BSB
  6. We love because He first loved us.

    1 John 4:19 BSB
  7. For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

    John 3:16 BSB
  8. A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.

    John 13:34 BSB
  9. By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”

    John 13:35 BSB
  10. But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

    Romans 5:8 BSB
  11. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,

    Romans 8:38 BSB
  12. neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

    Romans 8:39 BSB
  13. so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love,

    Ephesians 3:17 BSB
  14. will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth

    Ephesians 3:18 BSB
  15. Mighty waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love, his offer would be utterly scorned.

    Song of Solomon 8:7 BSB
  16. And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

    Deuteronomy 6:5 BSB
  17. Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.

    Leviticus 19:18 BSB
  18. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His loving devotion for those who fear Him.

    Psalms 103:11 BSB
  19. Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good. His loving devotion endures forever.

    Psalms 136:1 BSB
  20. Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.

    Proverbs 10:12 BSB
  21. Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’

    Matthew 22:37 BSB
  22. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

    Matthew 22:39 BSB
  23. But to those of you who will listen, I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

    Luke 6:27 BSB
  24. But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

    Luke 6:35 BSB
  25. This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

    John 15:12 BSB
  26. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

    John 15:13 BSB
  27. Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good.

    Romans 12:9 BSB
  28. Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

    Romans 13:8 BSB
  29. Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

    Romans 13:10 BSB
  30. Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.

    1 Corinthians 13:6 BSB
  31. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

    1 Corinthians 13:7 BSB
  32. Do everything in love.

    1 Corinthians 16:14 BSB
  33. For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.

    Galatians 5:13 BSB
  34. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

    Galatians 5:22 BSB
  35. with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

    Ephesians 4:2 BSB
  36. and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.

    Ephesians 5:2 BSB
  37. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her

    Ephesians 5:25 BSB
  38. And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity.

    Colossians 3:14 BSB
  39. Now about brotherly love, you do not need anyone to write to you, because you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.

    1 Thessalonians 4:9 BSB
  40. Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

    1 Peter 4:8 BSB
  41. And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

    1 John 4:10 BSB