Bible Verses About Love
Love is the Bible’s beginning, middle, and end — God’s love for you, and the love you pour out on everyone else. These are the passages read at weddings, whispered over cradles, and returned to when loving is hard.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 is Scripture’s fullest portrait of love — “Love is patient, love is kind” — and John 3:16 is its source: “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son.”
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs. Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed.
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.
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 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.
We love because He first loved us.
The LORD your God is among you; He is mighty to save. He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you with His love; He will rejoice over you with singing.”
The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.
This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love, will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good. His loving devotion endures forever.
Scripture quoted from the Berean Standard Bible. Tap any reference to compare all four translations.