Bible Verses for Love
World English Bible
Love is the heartbeat of the entire Bible. From Genesis to Revelation, God's love for humanity is the central story — and the Christian life is one of learning to love God and love others in return. 1 John 4:8 puts it plainly: "God is love."
These Bible verses about love include God's unconditional love for us, the call to love one another, and the famous definition of love in 1 Corinthians 13. Whether you are seeking to understand love, deepen it, or experience it for the first time — Scripture has much to say.
“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.”
“Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”
“He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.”
“But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
“By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."”
“And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.”
“Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.”
“"'If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.”
“Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.”
“For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don't use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.”
“We love him, because he first loved us.”
“Don't forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.”
“Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.”
“For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."”
“It is better to take refuge in Yahweh, than to put confidence in man.”
“Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.”