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.
“Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.”
“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 the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,”
“But now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love.”
“Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.”
“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.”
“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.”
“gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.”
“For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not give false testimony," "You shall not covet," and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."”
“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.”
“But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,”
“and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?'”
“Blessed is the man who doesn't walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;”
“In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;”
“Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.”
“By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."”
“that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.”
“but his delight is in Yahweh's law. On his law he meditates day and night.”
“"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.'”
“He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.”
“For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don't even the tax collectors do the same?”
“not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;”
“If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don't even the tax collectors do the same?”
“Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.”
“The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.”
“Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.”
“For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.”
“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.”
“The second is like this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."”
“Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.”
“Jacob loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter."”
“Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me."”