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Bible Verses About Love
There are a lot of Bible verses about love in the holy Scriptures, covering everything from God’s love toward us, our love toward God, romantic love between married couples, and our love among each other as human beings.
Since the Bible tells us that God is love, we can see why there are so many wonderful verses about throughout the Scriptures on love. We have spent the time to find the best Bible quotes covering all the different aspects of love so that you can hopefully find what you are looking for in our list of lbible verses below.
20 Scriptures About Love
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“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. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.”
[ESV, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7]
2.
“Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.”
[1 John 4:8]
3.
“We love because he first loved us.”
[1 John 4:19]
4.
“So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”
[1 Corinthians 13:13]
5.
“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.”
[1 John 4:18]
6.
“Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.”
[Proverbs 10:12]
7.
“Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.”
[1 Peter 4:8]
8.
“Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.”
[Proverbs 5:18-19]
9.
“Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.”
[Proverbs 3:3]
10.
“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,”
[Deuteronomy 7:9]
11.
“Your steadfast love, O LORD, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds.”
[Psalm 36:5]
12.
“The earth, O LORD, is full of your steadfast love; teach me your statutes!”
[Psalm 119:64]
13.
“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.”
[John 13:34-35]
14.
“but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
[Romans 5:8]
15.
“so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith–that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 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.”
[Ephesians 3:17-19]
16.
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?”
[Romans 8:35]
17.
“Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but steadfast love surrounds the one who trusts in the LORD.”
[Psalm 32:10]
18.
“But I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.”
[Psalm 13:5]
19.
“He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.”
[Deuteronomy 10:18]
20.
“The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,”
[Exodus 34:6]
All the Bible verses about love that we have looked at reveal some insightful truths about God’s love. Not only does it tell us that God is love, but that he abounds in love and that the earth and heavens are full of his love.
The Scripture verses also inform us that God is loving all of us though Christ and that nothing can separate us from that love–a love that surpasses understanding.
The biblical love quotes we have listed also reveal the love we are supposed to have for others and they tell us what love really is. The true service of a Christian on this earth is to love–to love God, love others, love their spouse and children, and even love their enemies. Love is the manifestation of God in a fallen world that so much needs to see that part of God through those of us who profess ourselves as Christians.
