Bible Verses about โlove relationshipsโ
The Bible contains 38 verses about love relationships across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โDon'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.โ
โOr don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,โ
โfor you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.โ
โFor I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.โ
โLove is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,โ
โdoesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;โ
โbears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.โ
โdoesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;โ
โTherefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.โ
โLove 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.โ
โWhen 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.โ
โBut the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,โ
โBut now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love.โ
โOwe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.โ
โFor 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.โ
โIf 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.โ
โbut when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.โ
โIf 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.โ
โFor we know in part, and we prophesy in part;โ
โIf I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.โ
โgentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.โ
โFor 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."โ
โLove doesn't harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.โ
โA new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.โ
โBut 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,โ
โLet us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don't give up.โ
โTherefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.โ
โBy this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."โ
โthat 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.โ
โ"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.'โ
โFor if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don't even the tax collectors do the same?โ
โIf you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don't even the tax collectors do the same?โ
โJesus said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.'โ
โA second likewise is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'โ
โWe 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.โ
โThe second is like this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."โ
โThis is the first and great commandment.โ
โThe whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."โ
