What Does the Bible Say About Divine Love?

1 John 4:8 ESV / 23 helpful votes

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

1 John 4:18 ESV / 17 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.

John 3:16 ESV / 15 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 13:4-7 ESV / 12 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.

1 John 3:16 ESV / 10 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.

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 10 helpful votes

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

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 10 helpful votes

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 10 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.

1 John 4:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes

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

Romans 5:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes

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

1 John 3:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes

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

John 15:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes

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

1 John 4:19 ESV / 7 helpful votes

We love because he first loved us.

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 7 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Galatians 3:23-25 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed. So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian,

Ephesians 5:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 3:17-19 ESV / 6 helpful votes

So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

1 Corinthians 13:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

John 21:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes

When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”

Genesis 3:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes

I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”

John 13:34 ESV / 5 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.

Luke 11:43 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seat in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces.

1 John 4:16 ESV / 4 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.

Philippians 4:1-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved. I entreat Euodia and I entreat Syntyche to agree in the Lord. Yes, I ask you also, true companion, help these women, who have labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life. Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; ...

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Romans 8:29 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Romans 5:5 ESV / 4 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.

Romans 1:26-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

John 20:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.”

John 16:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

John 3:1-36 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ...

Hosea 1:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The word of the Lord that came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.

1 John 3:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.

Galatians 5:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

John 13:31-35 ESV / 3 helpful votes

When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and glorify him at once. Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me, and just as I said to the Jews, so now I also say to you, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’ 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 5:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing. And greater works than these will he show him, so that you may marvel.

Matthew 23:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And they love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues

Isaiah 62:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For as a young man marries a young woman, so shall your sons marry you, and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.

2 Timothy 4:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

John 11:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”

42 Bible Verses about Divine Love

1 John 4:8 ESV / 23 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 4:18 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 3:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 4:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 5:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 3:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 15:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 4:19 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 3:23-25 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 5:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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1 Corinthians 13:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 21:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 3:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 13:34 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 11:43 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 4:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 4:1-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 8:29 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 5:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 1:26-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 20:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 16:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:1-36 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hosea 1:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 3:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 5:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 13:31-35 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 5:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 23:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 62:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 4:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 11:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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