A random verse about love, from our hand-picked list of the Bible's best-known love verses.
What the Bible Says About Love
Love is at the heart of the Bible. "God is love" (1 John 4:8), and Jesus said the greatest commandments are to love God and to love your neighbor. The verses on this page cover three kinds of love: God's love for people, our love for God, and our love for one another.
Perfect Uses for Love Verses
- Wedding cards, vows and anniversary notes.
- Valentine's Day messages with a deeper meaning.
- Encouragement for a friend or family member.
- A reminder for yourself that you are loved.
Verses in This Collection
- 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 – Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
- John 3:16 – 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.
- 1 John 4:8 – He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
- 1 John 4:19 – We love him, because he first loved us.
- Romans 5:8 – But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
- John 15:13 – Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
- 1 John 4:7 – Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
- Romans 8:38-39 – For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 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.
- John 13:34-35 – A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
- 1 Corinthians 16:14 – Let all your things be done with charity.
- Colossians 3:14 – And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
- 1 Peter 4:8 – And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
- Proverbs 10:12 – Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
- Ephesians 4:2 – With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
- Romans 12:9-10 – Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
- Song of Solomon 8:7 – 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.
- Psalms 136:26 – O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth for ever.
- Zephaniah 3:17 – 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.
- 1 John 3:18 – My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
- Mark 12:30-31 – 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. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
- Lamentations 3:22-23 – It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
- Romans 13:10 – Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
- Ephesians 3:17-19 – That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
- Jeremiah 31:3 – The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying , Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
- Psalms 86:15 – But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
- 1 John 4:16 – And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
- Galatians 5:22-23 – But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
- Proverbs 3:3-4 – Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
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