Bible Verses about “love and relationships”
The Bible contains 42 verses about love and relationships across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
“¶ 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.”
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,”
“And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these [is] charity.”
“Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”
“For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if [there be] any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”
“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.›”
“‹But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;›”
“‹And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?›”
“¶ Blessed [is] the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.”
“[Be] kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;”
“‹Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.›”
“‹By this shall all› [men] ‹know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.›”
“‹That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.›”
“But his delight [is] in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.”
“¶ ‹Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.›”
“And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.”
“‹For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?›”
“Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;”
“‹And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more› [than others]? ‹do not even the publicans so?›”
“[Let] love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.”
“¶ The ungodly [are] not so: but [are] like the chaff which the wind driveth away.”
“Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.”
“For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.”
“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.”
“‹And the second› [is] ‹like,› [namely] ‹this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.›”
“And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him [but] a few days, for the love he had to her.”
“And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.”
“And Laban said, [It is] better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.”