15 Bible Verses About Love
Love is patient and kind; it does not envy, does not boast, bears all things, endures all things (1 Corinthians 13:4-7). These verses define love by God's standard - not a feeling to fall into but a way of treating people, learned from the God who is love.
Love is patient; love is kind. Love does not envy, does not show off, is not puffed up. It does not behave shamefully, it does not look for its own advantage, it does not lose its temper, and it does not keep a tally of wrongs. It takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, but shares the joy of the truth. There is nothing love cannot bear, no time when it stops believing or hoping, nothing it cannot endure.
Dear friends, let us keep loving one another, for love has its source in God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows him. The one who does not love has never known God, for God is love.
Love does no harm to a neighbor, and so love is what fulfills the law.
No one has a love greater than this: that someone lays down their life for their friends.
We love because he loved us first.
We ourselves have come to know the love God has for us, and we believe it. God is love. Whoever remains in love remains in God, and God remains in them.
For God’s love for the world was such that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but have eternal life.
But God proves how much he loves us: Christ died for us when we were still sinners.
Consider the kind of love the Father has given us: we are called children of God, and we really are his children. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
Let love guide the way you live, as Christ loved us and handed himself over for our sake, an offering and sacrifice to God, a fragrance that pleased him.
Over all of these put on love, which binds everything together and makes it complete.
Mighty waters cannot put out love, and rivers cannot wash it away. If a man offered all the wealth of his house for love, he would be laughed to scorn.
Most important of all, keep your love for one another strong and unfailing, because love covers a great many sins.
But the fruit the Spirit produces is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. No law stands against things like these.
From far away the LORD appeared to me: I have loved you with an everlasting love, so I have kept on showing you loyal love.
Common questions
What does the Bible say about love?
The Bible roots love in God himself: “God is love” (1 John 4:8), and “We love because He loved us first” (1 John 4:19). 1 Corinthians 13 describes what that love looks like — patient, kind, and never failing.
Which Bible verses are about love?
1 Corinthians 13:4–7, John 3:16, 1 John 4:19, and Romans 5:8 are among the most memorized. Together they show love proven at the cross and holding on to the end.
How does God want us to love others?
Jesus gives a “new commandment,” to love one another as he has loved us (John 13:34). That love is practical and self-giving (1 Corinthians 13), extending even to enemies (Matthew 5:44).