Short Bible Verses About Love

Love is one of the most powerful and important messages in the Bible. The Bible has many short verses that talk about love, reminding us how much God loves us and how we should love others. In this post, we’ll share some simple yet meaningful verses about love that can inspire you every day. Whether you need a reminder to be kind, to forgive, or to feel God’s love in your life, these verses are perfect to keep in your heart.

Short Bible Verses About Love

1 Corinthians 13:4-5 – “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.”

1 John 4:8 – “Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is 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 Corinthians 13:13 – “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Romans 12:9 – “Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.”

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

John 13:34 – “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.”

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

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

Mark 12:30-31 – “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”

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

1 John 4:16 – “And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.”

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.”

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

1 John 4:18 – “There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.”

Ephesians 5:25 – “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.”

Luke 6:31 – “Do to others as you would have them do to you.”

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 3:1 – “See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.”

John 14:21 – “Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”

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 John 4:12 – “No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.”

1 Timothy 1:5 – “The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.”

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.”

Ephesians 4:15 – “Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.”

Galatians 5:22-23 – “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.”

Psalm 36:7 – “How priceless is your unfailing love, O God! People take refuge in the shadow of your wings.”

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.”

Romans 8:37-39 – “No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, 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.”

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 John 2:5 – “But if anyone obeys his word, love for God is truly made complete in them. This is how we know we are in him.”

Psalm 63:3 – “Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you.”

1 Corinthians 13:6 – “Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.”

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.”

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.”

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.”

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

Ephesians 3:17-19 – “So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”

Deuteronomy 6:5 – “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.”

Psalm 86:15 – “But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.”

1 John 4:20 – “Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.”

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

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.’”

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