Bible Verses About Love

Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.”
1 Corinthians 13:4

“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
1 Corinthians 13:13

“Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”
John 15:13

“Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.”
1 John 4:7

“Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.”
1 Peter 4:8

“Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.”
1 John 3:18

“This is my command: Love each other.”
John 15:17

1. “But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.”
   Luke 6:35
2. “My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.”
   John 15:12
3. “Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.”
   Romans 13:8
4. “And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.”
   Colossians 3:14
5. “If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.”
   1 Corinthians 13:1
6. “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.”
   Ephesians 5:25
7. “Above all, love one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.”
   1 Peter 4:8
8. “Let all that you do be done in love.”
   1 Corinthians 16:14
9. “And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.”
   1 John 4:21
10. “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness.”
    Galatians 5:22
11. “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 4:20
12. “Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.”
    Romans 12:10
13. “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.”
    John 13:34

Old Testament Verses on Love

1. “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.”
   Deuteronomy 6:5
2. “Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs.”
   Proverbs 10:12
3. “Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever.”
   Psalm 136:1
4. “Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is as strong as death, its jealousy as enduring as the grave. Love flashes like fire, the brightest kind of flame.”
   Song of Solomon 8:6
5. “You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.”
   Leviticus 19:18
6. “The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: ‘I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.'”
   Jeremiah 31:3
7. “Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.”
   Proverbs 3:3
8. “Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If one were to give all the wealth of one’s house for love, it would be utterly scorned.”
   Song of Solomon 8:7
9. “The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.”
   Zephaniah 3:17

4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.

And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

Let all your things be done with charity.

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

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

Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:

No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

If ye love me, keep my commandments.

For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.

He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.

Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.

37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

4 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,
5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;

2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord.

Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.

Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

5 And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
6 And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

Let brotherly love continue.

And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

Let all your things be done with charity.

And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:

But if any man love God, the same is known of him.

Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.

And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.

If ye love me, keep my commandments.

Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.

35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
36 Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards.

As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord.

Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

41 And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.
42 Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.

As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.

If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet.

But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.

But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.

But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.