100 Bible Verses about Everlasting Love

John 3:16 ESV / 436 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.

Jeremiah 31:3 ESV / 430 helpful votes

The Lord appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.

1 John 4:16 ESV / 282 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.

1 John 3:1 ESV / 230 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.

Psalm 103:17 ESV / 218 helpful votes

But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children's children,

Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 197 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.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 195 helpful votes

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

1 John 4:19 ESV / 165 helpful votes

We love because he first loved us.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 151 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.

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 143 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 143 helpful votes

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

Psalm 136:26 ESV / 134 helpful votes

Give thanks to the God of heaven, for his steadfast love endures forever.

Psalm 63:3 ESV / 126 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 54:10 ESV / 124 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.

John 15:13 ESV / 122 helpful votes

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

Colossians 3:14 ESV / 121 helpful votes

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

1 Peter 5:6-7 ESV / 119 helpful votes

Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Ephesians 2:4-5 ESV / 119 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—

1 John 4:18 ESV / 118 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.

Romans 8:37-39 ESV / 118 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.

Psalm 86:15 ESV / 117 helpful votes

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

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 116 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 13:2 ESV / 116 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.

1 John 4:7 ESV / 104 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 4:8 ESV / 103 helpful votes

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

1 John 4:12 ESV / 102 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 101 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; ...

1 John 4:7-8 ESV / 99 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.

Isaiah 54:8 ESV / 99 helpful votes

In overflowing anger for a moment I hid my face from you, but with everlasting love I will have compassion on you,” says the Lord, your Redeemer.

1 Corinthians 16:14 ESV / 97 helpful votes

Let all that you do be done in love.

Matthew 25:46 ESV / 97 helpful votes

And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Psalm 36:7 ESV / 97 helpful votes

How precious is your steadfast love, O God! The children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings.

Psalm 25:6 ESV / 97 helpful votes

Remember your mercy, O Lord, and your steadfast love, for they have been from of old.

1 Timothy 1:17 ESV / 96 helpful votes

To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

John 13:34-35 ESV / 96 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.”

Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 96 helpful votes

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

Romans 13:8 ESV / 95 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 8:17 ESV / 95 helpful votes

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

Romans 5:5 ESV / 94 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 15:12 ESV / 94 helpful votes

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

John 14:21 ESV / 94 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.”

Proverbs 3:3-4 ESV / 94 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.

John 3:36 ESV / 92 helpful votes

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

Deuteronomy 10:15 ESV / 92 helpful votes

Yet the Lord set his heart in love on your fathers and chose their offspring after them, you above all peoples, as you are this day.

Romans 8:35-39 ESV / 88 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? As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” 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.

1 John 4:10 ESV / 77 helpful votes

In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

John 13:34 ESV / 76 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 John 4:9-11 ESV / 75 helpful votes

In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 75 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 75 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.

Psalm 100:5 ESV / 75 helpful votes

For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.

Deuteronomy 7:9 ESV / 75 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,

Isaiah 49:15-16 ESV / 74 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.

1 Corinthians 2:9 ESV / 73 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”—

Isaiah 43:4 ESV / 73 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.

Song of Solomon 8:7 ESV / 73 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.

Psalm 89:2 ESV / 73 helpful votes

For I said, “Steadfast love will be built up forever; in the heavens you will establish your faithfulness.”

John 17:3 ESV / 72 helpful votes

And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

John 15:9 ESV / 72 helpful votes

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.

John 14:23 ESV / 72 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.

John 6:40 ESV / 72 helpful votes

For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

Matthew 22:37-39 ESV / 72 helpful votes

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.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 72 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 72 helpful votes

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 71 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Isaiah 61:8 ESV / 71 helpful votes

For I the Lord love justice; I hate robbery and wrong; I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

Psalm 136:2-3 ESV / 71 helpful votes

Give thanks to the God of gods, for his steadfast love endures forever. Give thanks to the Lord of lords, for his steadfast love endures forever;

Ephesians 5:2 ESV / 70 helpful votes

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

Psalm 118:1 ESV / 70 helpful votes

Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!

1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 57 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 13:8 ESV / 52 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.

Hosea 11:4 ESV / 52 helpful votes

I led them with cords of kindness, with the bands of love, and I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws, and I bent down to them and fed them.

Psalm 107:1 ESV / 51 helpful votes

Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!

Jude 1:21 ESV / 50 helpful votes

Keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.

1 John 3:16 ESV / 50 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.

2 Thessalonians 1:9 ESV / 50 helpful votes

They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

Colossians 3:2 ESV / 50 helpful votes

Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

1 John 3:16-18 ESV / 49 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.

Romans 8:39 ESV / 49 helpful votes

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.

John 13:1 ESV / 49 helpful votes

Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

John 6:44 ESV / 49 helpful votes

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

Isaiah 45:17 ESV / 49 helpful votes

But Israel is saved by the Lord with everlasting salvation; you shall not be put to shame or confounded to all eternity.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 48 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

1 Peter 1:22 ESV / 48 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,

1 Timothy 1:2 ESV / 48 helpful votes

To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

2 Thessalonians 3:5 ESV / 48 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 48 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

1 Corinthians 13:4-5 ESV / 48 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;

1 Corinthians 13:3 ESV / 48 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.

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 48 helpful votes

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Matthew 25:41 ESV / 48 helpful votes

“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

Malachi 1:2 ESV / 48 helpful votes

“I have loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau Jacob's brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob

Jude 1:2 ESV / 47 helpful votes

May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.

1 John 4:9-10 ESV / 47 helpful votes

In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

1 John 4:5 ESV / 47 helpful votes

They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them.

1 John 4:3 ESV / 47 helpful votes

And every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already.

Hebrews 12:6 ESV / 47 helpful votes

For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.”

Titus 2:4 ESV / 47 helpful votes

And so train the young women to love their husbands and children,

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 ESV / 47 helpful votes

But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. ...

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 47 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.

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