What Does the Bible Say About What Is Love?

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 23 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 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 13 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 Peter 4:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes

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

John 15:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 16:13-14 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love.

1 John 4:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes

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

Romans 5:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes

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

John 3:16 ESV / 6 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.

John 14:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

John 13:34-35 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. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Galatians 5:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.

John 13:35 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

1 John 5:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.

1 Corinthians 8:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up.

Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

John 15:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

Matthew 19:1-30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from Galilee and entered the region of Judea beyond the Jordan. And large crowds followed him, and he healed them there. And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? ...

1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

18 Bible Verses about What Is Love

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 23 helpful votes

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

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes

John 15:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 16:13-14 ESV / 8 helpful votes

1 John 4:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Romans 5:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

John 14:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

John 13:34-35 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Galatians 5:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 13:35 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 5:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 8:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 15:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 19:1-30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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18 Bible Verses about What Is Love

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1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 23 helpful votes

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

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes

John 15:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 16:13-14 ESV / 8 helpful votes

1 John 4:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Romans 5:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

John 14:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

John 13:34-35 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Galatians 5:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 13:35 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 5:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 8:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 15:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 19:1-30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes