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.
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
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.
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
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.
Yahweh, your God, is in your midst, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you 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: “In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent 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 separate us from God’s love … in Christ Jesus.” It is a love that gives, that pursues sinners, and that nothing in all creation can undo.