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.
“Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,”
“doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;”
“bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”
“doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;”
“Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.”
“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.”
“But now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love.”
“For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.”
“For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,”
“If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing.”
“but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.”
“If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.”
“For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;”
“If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.”
“holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.”
“But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.”
“traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;”
“without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,”
“Love doesn't harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.”
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.”
“He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.”
“But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?”
“By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."”
“If a man says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn't love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?”
“And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.”
“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.”
“Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.”
“But I have this against you, that you left your first love.”
“Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lampstand out of its place, unless you repent.”
“We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.”