50 Bible Verses About Love

Love is at the very heart of God’s character and His relationship with us. The Bible shows us that love is not just a feeling, but an action — patient, kind, and selfless. God’s love was revealed most fully in Jesus Christ, and He calls us to share that same love with others. These verses remind us of the power of God’s love to transform hearts, strengthen relationships, and guide us in living faithfully every day.

50 Bible Verses About Love

John 3:16 – “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”

1 John 4:7 – “Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.”

1 John 4:8 – “Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.”

1 John 4:9 – “This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.”

1 John 4:19 – “We love because he first loved us.”

Romans 13:10 – “Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.”

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 – “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”

1 Corinthians 13:13 – “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”

John 15:12 – “My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.”

John 15:13 – “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”

Ephesians 4:2 – “Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.”

Ephesians 5:2 – “Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.”

Colossians 3:14 – “And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.”

1 Peter 4:8 – “Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.”

1 Thessalonians 3:12 – “May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you.”

1 John 3:16 – “This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.”

Galatians 5:13 – “You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.”

Galatians 5:14 – “For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”

Matthew 22:37-39 – “Jesus replied: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”

Luke 6:27 – “But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,”

Luke 6:35 – “But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.”

Romans 5:8 – “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

Romans 8:39 – “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.”

2 Corinthians 5:14 – “For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.”

2 Corinthians 13:11 – “Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice! Strive for full restoration, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.”

James 2:8 – “If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself,’ you are doing right.”

Proverbs 10:12 – “Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs.”

Proverbs 17:17 – “A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.”

Song of Solomon 8:7 – “Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away. If one were to give all the wealth of one’s house for love, it would be utterly scorned.”

Isaiah 54:10 – “Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you.”

Zephaniah 3:17 – “The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.”

Jeremiah 31:3 – “The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: ‘I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.’”

Hosea 11:4 – “I led them with cords of human kindness, with ties of love; to them I was like one who lifts a little child to the cheek, and I bent down to feed them.”

Micah 6:8 – “He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.”

Matthew 5:44 – “But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,”

Matthew 7:12 – “So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.”

Mark 12:31 – “The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”

1 John 4:10 – “This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.”

1 John 4:11 – “Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.”

2 John 1:6 – “And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.”

Hebrews 10:24 – “And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds,”

1 Peter 1:22 – “Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart.”

1 Peter 4:8 – “Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.”

Galatians 6:2 – “Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.”

1 Corinthians 16:14 – “Do everything in love.”

1 John 2:10 – “Anyone who loves their brother and sister lives in the light, and there is nothing in them to make them stumble.”

1 John 3:14 – “We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love each other. Anyone who does not love remains in death.”

1 John 3:18 – “Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.”

Romans 13:8 – “Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.”

1 Corinthians 13:1 – “If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.”

These verses offer a comprehensive look at love from a biblical perspective, showing how essential it is in our relationship with God and others.

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