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100 Bible Verses about About Love

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 231 helpful votes

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

John 3:16 ESV / 230 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 195 helpful votes

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

John 15:13 ESV / 190 helpful votes

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Colossians 3:14 ESV / 178 helpful votes

And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

1 Corinthians 16:14 ESV / 169 helpful votes

Let all that you do be done in love.

1 John 4:19 ESV / 147 helpful votes

We love because he first loved us.

1 John 4:18 ESV / 139 helpful votes

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 133 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 132 helpful votes

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 128 helpful votes

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

1 John 3:1 ESV / 126 helpful votes

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 119 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

Romans 13:8 ESV / 117 helpful votes

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 115 helpful votes

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

1 John 4:7 ESV / 111 helpful votes

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

1 John 4:20 ESV / 110 helpful votes

If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

1 John 4:8 ESV / 109 helpful votes

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

1 John 4:16 ESV / 107 helpful votes

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

Romans 13:10 ESV / 107 helpful votes

Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 106 helpful votes

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

Proverbs 3:3-4 ESV / 106 helpful votes

Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 98 helpful votes

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

John 14:15 ESV / 98 helpful votes

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

John 13:34-35 ESV / 91 helpful votes

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

John 13:34 ESV / 88 helpful votes

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 87 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Romans 12:10 ESV / 83 helpful votes

Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

Romans 12:9 ESV / 82 helpful votes

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

Ephesians 2:4-5 ESV / 81 helpful votes

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

Ephesians 4:2-3 ESV / 80 helpful votes

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

1 John 4:12 ESV / 79 helpful votes

No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

Luke 6:35 ESV / 78 helpful votes

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.

John 15:12 ESV / 77 helpful votes

“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 76 helpful votes

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Romans 12:9-10 ESV / 75 helpful votes

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

1 Corinthians 13:2 ESV / 73 helpful votes

And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

Luke 10:27 ESV / 72 helpful votes

And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”

Mark 12:31 ESV / 69 helpful votes

The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 67 helpful votes

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

1 John 4:7-8 ESV / 66 helpful votes

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 64 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 64 helpful votes

The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.

Isaiah 43:4 ESV / 64 helpful votes

Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you, I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life.

1 Corinthians 13:4-5 ESV / 63 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

Ephesians 5:2 ESV / 62 helpful votes

And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Song of Solomon 8:6-7 ESV / 62 helpful votes

Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised.

John 14:21 ESV / 60 helpful votes

Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”

Matthew 22:36-40 ESV / 60 helpful votes

“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

1 John 3:18 ESV / 59 helpful votes

Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

1 Peter 1:22 ESV / 59 helpful votes

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,

Psalm 143:8 ESV / 58 helpful votes

Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.

Romans 8:38-39 ESV / 57 helpful votes

For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:35 ESV / 57 helpful votes

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

Mark 12:29-31 ESV / 57 helpful votes

Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Song of Solomon 8:6 ESV / 57 helpful votes

Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord.

Psalm 86:15 ESV / 56 helpful votes

But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

1 Thessalonians 3:12 ESV / 55 helpful votes

And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you,

1 John 4:11 ESV / 54 helpful votes

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Psalm 63:3 ESV / 52 helpful votes

Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you.

1 John 3:16 ESV / 51 helpful votes

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Romans 5:5 ESV / 51 helpful votes

And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

John 14:23 ESV / 51 helpful votes

Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

2 Thessalonians 3:5 ESV / 50 helpful votes

May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.

John 13:35 ESV / 50 helpful votes

By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Deuteronomy 7:9 ESV / 50 helpful votes

Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 49 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant

1 Corinthians 13:3 ESV / 49 helpful votes

If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Proverbs 17:9 ESV / 49 helpful votes

Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.

Galatians 5:14 ESV / 48 helpful votes

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

1 Corinthians 2:9 ESV / 48 helpful votes

But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”—

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 47 helpful votes

However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Matthew 5:43-48 ESV / 47 helpful votes

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? ...

Ephesians 5:25-26 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,

Isaiah 54:10 ESV / 45 helpful votes

For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you.

1 Corinthians 13:1-2 ESV / 44 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

Romans 5:1-21 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. ...

Isaiah 49:15-16 ESV / 44 helpful votes

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.

Romans 8:37-39 ESV / 43 helpful votes

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:37 ESV / 43 helpful votes

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

1 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 42 helpful votes

Desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make confident assertions.

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 42 helpful votes

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. ...

Ephesians 3:16-17 ESV / 42 helpful votes

That according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

John 15:3 ESV / 42 helpful votes

Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.

Psalm 31:1 ESV / 42 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. In you, O Lord, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame; in your righteousness deliver me!

Song of Solomon 8:7 ESV / 39 helpful votes

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised.

Song of Solomon 3:4 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Scarcely had I passed them when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her who conceived me.

Psalm 116:1-2 ESV / 38 helpful votes

I love the Lord, because he has heard my voice and my pleas for mercy. Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live.

Galatians 5:13 ESV / 37 helpful votes

For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

Deuteronomy 6:5 ESV / 37 helpful votes

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

1 John 3:16-18 ESV / 36 helpful votes

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

1 Corinthians 13:1-3 ESV / 36 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Proverbs 8:17 ESV / 36 helpful votes

I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.

Matthew 5:44 ESV / 35 helpful votes

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

Ephesians 4:15 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,

Proverbs 3:11-12 ESV / 34 helpful votes

My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline or be weary of his reproof, for the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.

Philippians 2:2 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.

1 Corinthians 10:24 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.

Matthew 19:19 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Psalm 31:16 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Make your face shine on your servant; save me in your steadfast love!

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