20 Bible verses about love
Four kinds of love show up across the Bible — God's love for you, the love Jesus described, love for others, and love in marriage and family. Here are the verses people return to most.
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God's love for you
- John 3:16
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."
- Romans 5:8
"But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us."
- 1 John 4:9–10
"This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him."
- Jeremiah 31:3
"I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness."
- Romans 8:38–39
"Nothing … will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
- Zephaniah 3:17
"The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves … he will rejoice over you with singing."
What love looks like (1 Corinthians 13)
- 1 Corinthians 13:4–7
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud … It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."
- 1 Corinthians 13:13
"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
Love for others
- John 13:34–35
"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another."
- 1 John 4:19
"We love because he first loved us."
- 1 John 4:20
"Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar."
- Romans 12:10
"Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves."
- 1 Peter 4:8
"Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins."
- Mark 12:30–31
"Love the Lord your God with all your heart … Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these."
Marriage and family
- Ephesians 5:25
"Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her."
- Colossians 3:14
"And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity."
- Song of Songs 8:7
"Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away."
- Genesis 2:24
"That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh."
- Proverbs 17:17
"A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity."
- 1 Corinthians 16:14
"Do everything in love."