8 Bible Verses About Love of God
God's love is not a mood but an act: he loved us first and sent his Son for us (1 John 4:10). These verses trace that love from everlasting covenant to the cross to your own adoption as his child - the surest ground under a believer's feet.
This is where love is found: not in our having loved God, but in his loving us and sending his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
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.
For I am fully persuaded that not death and not life, not angels and not rulers, not what is here now and not what is yet to come, not any powers, not what is high above and not what is deep below, nor any other created thing, will be able to cut us off from God’s love, which is ours in Christ Jesus our Lord.
and I pray that you will have the strength to grasp, with all God’s holy people, the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ, a love that goes beyond knowledge, so that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.
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.
The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty warrior who saves; he will delight in you with gladness and be quiet in his love; he will rejoice over you with singing.
Common questions
What does the Bible say about the love of God?
The Bible says God loved us first and proved it at the cross: “This is where love is found: not in our having loved God, but in His loving us and sending His Son” (1 John 4:10). God demonstrates his love in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5:8).
Which Bible verses are about God’s love?
John 3:16, Romans 5:8, 1 John 4:10, and 1 John 3:1 are the most memorized. They show God’s love as sacrificial, undeserved, and the ground of our adoption as his children.
How great is God’s love for us?
Romans 8:38–39 says nothing “will be able to cut us off from God’s love, which is ours in Christ Jesus our Lord.” It is a love that gives, that pursues sinners, and that nothing in all creation can undo.