Love is woven through Scripture, beginning to end. There are many Bible verses about love. Learning about love, we can learn more about who God is and how to live out our faith.
Here are 30+ Bible verses about love
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:8 ESV
Do everything in love.
1 Corinthians 16:14 NIV
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16 NIV
Do not take revenge or bear a grudge against members of your community, but love your neighbor as yourself; I am the Lord.
Leviticus 19:18 CSB
The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.
Numbers 14:18 ESV
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
Deuteronomy 6:5 CSB
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his faithful love endures forever.
1 Chronicles 16:34 CSB
Show me your strong love in wonderful ways, O Savior of all those seeking your help against their foes.
Psalm 17:7 TLB
Yes, Lord, let your constant love surround us, for our hopes are in you alone.
Psalm 33:22 TLB
For your love and kindness are better to me than life itself. How I praise you!
Psalm 63:3 TLB
Pour out your love and kindness on us, Lord, and grant us your salvation.
Psalm 85:7 TLB
See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
1 John 3:1 NIV
Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
1 John 3:18 NIV
Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
Romans 12:9 NIV
He who does not love does not know God; for God is love.
1 John 4:8 RSV
But if one loves God, one is known by him.
1 Corinthians 8:3 RSV
“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.”
Matthew 5:43-44 RSV
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 NIV
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.
Proverbs 17:17 NIV
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
1 Peter 4:8
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:13
Pay all your debts except the debt of love for others—never finish paying that! For if you love them, you will be obeying all of God’s laws, fulfilling all his requirements.
Romans 13:8 TLB
Many waters cannot quench love, Nor can rivers drown it. If a man would offer all the riches of his house for love, It would be utterly scorned and despised.
Song of Solomon 8:7 AMP
Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
Proverbs 3:3 NIV
And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
1 John 4:16 NIV
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love
1 John 4:18 NIV
Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life.
Psalm 148:8 NIV
For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.
2 Timothy 1:7 NIV
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Galatians 5:22-23
