Bible Verses about “love is”
The Bible contains 26 verses about love is across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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,”
“Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”
“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.”
“Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.”
“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.”
“"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.'”
“And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.”
“For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don't even the tax collectors do the same?”
“If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don't even the tax collectors do the same?”
“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.”
“We love him, because he first loved us.”