Bible Verses about “lack of love”
The Bible contains 30 verses about lack of love across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“¶ Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,”
“Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;”
“Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.”
“Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;”
“¶ Charity never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall fail; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall vanish away.”
“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”
“And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these [is] charity.”
“For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.”
“For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,”
“And though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.”
“But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.”
“And though I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.”
“For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.”
“¶ Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become [as] sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.”
“Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.”
“¶ This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.”
“Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;”
“Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,”
“Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love [is] the fulfilling of the law.”
“‹A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.›”
“He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.”
“But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels [of compassion] from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?”
“‹By this shall all› [men] ‹know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.›”
“If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?”
“And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.”
“¶ Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.”
“‹And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.›”
“‹Nevertheless I have› [somewhat] ‹against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.›”
“‹Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.›”
“And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.”