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Bible Verses About Love

The Bible describes love less as a feeling and more as a way of acting: patient, kind and steady. These are the passages most often read at weddings and quoted between friends.

All 20 verses

• Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

  The best-known wedding reading: love described by what it does.

  1 Corinthians 13:4

• We love him, because he first loved us.

  Our love is a response to being loved first.

  1 John 4:19

• 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.

  The heart of the gospel: God so loved the world.

  John 3:16

• But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

  God's love came before we deserved it.

  Romans 5:8

• Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

  Love bears, believes, hopes and endures all things.

  1 Corinthians 13:7

• And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

  Faith, hope and love remain, and love is the greatest.

  1 Corinthians 13:13

• Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

  Love one another, because love comes from God.

  1 John 4:7

• There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

  Perfect love drives out fear.

  1 John 4:18

• This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

  Jesus' command: love one another as I have loved you.

  John 15:12

• Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

  The greatest love lays down its life for friends.

  John 15:13

• 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.

  Nothing, not even death, can separate us from God's love.

  Romans 8:38–39

• And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

  Love binds every other virtue together.

  Colossians 3:14

• And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

  Be kind and forgive, as God forgave you.

  Ephesians 4:32

• 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.

  Many waters cannot put out love.

  Song of Solomon 8:7

• And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

  Deep love covers a multitude of sins.

  1 Peter 4:8

• A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

  A friend loves at all times.

  Proverbs 17:17

• Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

  Love does no harm to a neighbor; it fulfils the law.

  Romans 13:10

• With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

  Humility, gentleness and patience, bearing with one another in love.

  Ephesians 4:2

• Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

  Be devoted to one another and honor one another above yourselves.

  Romans 12:10

• And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

  The prodigal's father runs to meet his returning son.

  Luke 15:20

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