Bible verses about love
The Bible’s best-known words on love are 1 Corinthians 13:4–7 (“Love is patient, love is kind”) and John 3:16. Here are both, with more on God’s love and loving others.
19 passages
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1 Corinthians 13:4–7
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs. Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
KJV
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
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John 3:16
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
KJV
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.
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1 John 4:7–8
Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
KJV
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
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1 John 4:16
And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
KJV
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
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1 John 4:18
There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been perfected in love.
KJV
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.
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1 John 4:19
We love because He first loved us.
KJV
We love him, because he first loved us.
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Romans 5:8
But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
KJV
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
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Romans 8:38–39
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
KJV
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.
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John 15:12–13
This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
KJV
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
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John 13:34–35
A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”
KJV
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
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1 Peter 4:8
Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
KJV
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
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Colossians 3:14
And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity.
KJV
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
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Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.
KJV
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
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Song of Songs 8:6–7
Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all. Mighty waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love, his offer would be utterly scorned.
KJV
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. 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.
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Romans 13:10
Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
KJV
Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
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Ephesians 4:2
with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
KJV
With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
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1 Corinthians 16:14
Do everything in love.
KJV
Let all your things be done with charity.
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Zephaniah 3:17
The LORD your God is among you; He is mighty to save. He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you with His love; He will rejoice over you with singing.”
KJV
The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.
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Jeremiah 31:3
The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.
KJV
The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
Text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Tap KJV for the King James Version. Make any short verse into a wallpaper.