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In the Bible, love is revealed as the very nature and essence of God Himself. 1 John 4:8 affirms, “God is love,” illustrating the foundational role love plays in understanding the character of the Divine.
This love is not just theoretical; it’s demonstrated profoundly in John 3:16: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son,” signifying the unparalleled sacrifice made out of love for humanity. This divine love is the template from which believers are called to model their relationships.
In this post, we’ve collected our favorite scriptures about Love according to the Bible…
Scriptures about Love
John 3:16
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
“Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”
1 John 4:19
“We love because he first loved us.”
1 John 4:8
“He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.”
Romans 13:8
“Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.”
Matthew 22:37-39
“And he said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'”
1 Corinthians 16:14
“Let all that you do be done in love.”
Ephesians 4:2
“With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,”
Song of Solomon 8:7
“Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised.”
1 Peter 4:8
“Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.”
Proverbs 10:12
“Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.”
John 15:13
“Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”
1 John 3:18
“Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.”
Ephesians 5:25
“Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,”
Romans 12:9
“Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.”
Galatians 5:22-23
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.”
Colossians 3:14
“And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.”
Romans 8:38-39
“For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Proverbs 17:17
“A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.”
John 13:34-35
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
1 John 4:7
“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.”
Romans 5:8
“But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
2 Timothy 1:7
“For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.”
Psalm 136:26
“Give thanks to the God of heaven, for his steadfast love endures forever.”
1 Corinthians 13:13
“So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”
Ephesians 3:18-19
“May have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.”
Romans 8:28
“And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.”
1 John 4:18
“There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.”
Galatians 2:20
“I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
Psalm 63:3
“Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you.”
1 John 4:21
“And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.”
John 14:21
“Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”
Psalm 143:8
“Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.”
2 Corinthians 5:14
“For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died;”
Zephaniah 3:17
“The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.”
Romans 12:10
“Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.”
John 15:9
“As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.”
Psalm 42:8
“By day the Lord commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.”
Ephesians 2:4-5
“But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—”
1 John 3:1
“See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.”
Deuteronomy 7:9
“Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,”
1 John 2:15
“Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.”
Romans 8:35
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?”
1 John 4:10
“In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”
1 John 3:16
“By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.”
Psalm 33:22
“Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us, even as we hope in you.”
Proverbs 3:3-4
“Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man.”
Final Thoughts about Love in the Bible
As 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 eloquently expresses, love is patient, kind, and endures all things. It is this same love that binds communities, as indicated in Colossians 3:14: “Above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.”
Not just limited to God’s love for humanity or the love shared among believers, the Bible also emphasizes the primary commandment: to “love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind” and to “love your neighbor as yourself,” as laid out in Matthew 22:37-39.
The scriptural narrative encapsulates love’s breadth, from divine sacrifice to interpersonal relationships, underscoring its centrality in a life of faith.
