Bible Verses About Love
15 Bible verses about Love to read, reflect on, and commit to memory.
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
We love him, because he first loved us.
We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.
Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
Many waters can’t quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned. Friends
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you.
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 first loved us” (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 8:38–39 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).