Bible Verses About Love

Love is mentioned 348 times in the New American Standard Version of the Bible. 133 times in the Old Testament and 215 times in the New Testament. The Bible certainly has a lot to say about the subject of love!

What the Bible Says About the Love of God

Scripture talks a lot about God’s agape love. From the beginning of Creation to the end of the ages, God’s Word is a revelation of what His love really looks this.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. – John 3:16

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. – Romans 5:8

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. – 1 John 3:1

What the Bible Says About Loving God

Loving God is the most important thing of all. Even more than the love we have for others.

And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” – Luke 10:27

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. – Deuteronomy 6:5

We love because he first loved us. – 1 John 4:19

Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him. – John 14:21

If you love me, you will keep my commandments. – John 14:15

What the Bible Says About Loving Others

I am giving you a new commandment, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, that you also love one another. – John 13:34

We love, because He first loved us. If someone says, “I love God,” and yet he hates his brother or sister, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother and sister whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God must also love his brother and sister. – 1 John 4:19-21

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. – 1 John 4:11

Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility consider one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others. – Philippians 2:3-4

Beloved, let’s love one another; for love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. – 1 John 4:7

What the Bible Says About Love in Marriage

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her… – Ephesians 5:25

Love is patient, love is kind, it is not jealous; love does not brag, it is not arrogant. It does not act disgracefully, it does not seek its own benefit; it is not provoked, does not keep an account of a wrong suffered, it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; it keeps every confidence, it believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. – 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

All that you do must be done in love. – 1 Corinthians 16:14

Many waters cannot quench love, Nor will rivers flood over it; If a man were to give all the riches of his house for love, It would be utterly despised. – Song of Solomon 8:7

 

Every Mention of Love in the Bible

We’ve included every mention of the word love in the NASB below. We hope reflecting on these verses will deepen your knowledge of God’s Word!

Bible Verses About Love in Genesis

He said, “Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.” – Genesis 2:22

Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and he took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her; thus Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death. – Genesis 24:67

Now Isaac loved Esau, because he had a taste for game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

Now then, please take your gear, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me; and prepare a savory dish for me such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat, so that my soul may bless you before I die.” – Genesis 27:3-4

Go now to the flock and bring me two choice young goats from there, that I may prepare them as a savory dish for your father, such as he loves. – Genesis 27:9

So he went and got them, and brought them to his mother; and his mother made savory food such as his father loved. – Genesis 27:14

Now Jacob loved Rachel, so he said, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.” – Genesis 29:18

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel and they seemed to him but a few days because of his love for her. – Genesis 29:20

So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and indeed he loved Rachel more than Leah, and he served with Laban for another seven years. – Genesis 29:30

Leah conceived and bore a son and named him Reuben, for she said, “Because the Lord has seen my affliction; surely now my husband will love me.” – Genesis 29:32

He was deeply attracted to Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the girl and spoke tenderly to her. – Genesis 34:3

Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a varicolored tunic. – Genesis 37:3

His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers; and so they hated him and could not speak to him on friendly terms. – Genesis 37:4

We said to my lord, ‘We have an old father and a little child of his old age. Now his brother is dead, so he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him.’ – Genesis 44:20

But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife and my children; I will not go out as a free man,’ then his master shall bring him to God, then he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him permanently. – Genesis 21:5-6

Bible Verses About Love in Exodus

You shall not worship them or serve them; I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.. – Exodus 20:5-6

Bible Verses About Love in Leviticus

You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the Lord. – Leviticus 19:18

The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.- Leviticus 19:34

Bible Verses About Love in Deuteronomy

Because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their descendants after them. And He personally brought you from Egypt by His great power, driving out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in and to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today. Deuteronomy 4:37-38

You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.- Deuteronomy 5:9-10

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. – Deuteronomy 6:5

The Lord did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples, but because the Lord loved you and kept the oath which He swore to your forefathers, the Lord brought you out by a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know therefore that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps His covenant and His lovingkindness to a thousandth generation with those who love Him and keep His commandments. – Deuteronomy 7:7-9

He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock, in the land which He swore to your forefathers to give you. – Deuteronomy 7:13

Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. – Deuteronomy 10:12

Yet on your fathers did the Lord set His affection to love them, and He chose their descendants after them, even you above all peoples, as it is this day. – Deuteronomy 10:15

He executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and shows His love for the alien by giving him food and clothing. – Deuteronomy 10:18

So show your love for the alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt. – Deuteronomy 10:19

You shall therefore love the Lord your God, and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments. – Deuteronomy 11:1

It shall come about, if you listen obediently to my commandments which I am commanding you today, to love the Lord your God and to serve Him with all your heart and all your soul, that He will give the rain for your land in its season, the early and late rain, that you may gather in your grain and your new wine and your oil. – Deuteronomy 11:13-14

For if you are careful to keep all this commandment which I am commanding you to do, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and hold fast to Him, then the Lord will drive out all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than you. – Deuteronomy 11:22-23

… you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams; for the Lord your God is testing you to find out if you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. – Deuteronomy 13:3

It shall come about if he says to you, ‘I will not go out from you,’ because he loves you and your household, since he fares well with you; then you shall take an awl and pierce it through his ear into the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also you shall do likewise to your maidservant. – Deuteronomy 15:16-17

… if you carefully observe all this commandment which I command you today, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in His ways always—then you shall add three more cities for yourself, besides these three. – Deuteronomy 19:9

If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him sons, if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved, then it shall be in the day he wills what he has to his sons, he cannot make the son of the loved the firstborn before the son of the unloved, who is the firstborn. – Deuteronomy 21:15-16

Nevertheless, the Lord your God was not willing to listen to Balaam, but the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you because the Lord your God loves you. – Deuteronomy 23:5

Moreover the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live. – Deuteronomy 30:6

… in that I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, that you may live and multiply, and that the Lord your God may bless you in the land where you are entering to possess it. – Deuteronomy 30:16

Indeed, He loves the people; All Your holy ones are in Your hand, And they followed in Your steps; Everyone receives of Your words. – Deuteronomy 33:3

Bible Verses About Love in Joshua

Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God and walk in all His ways and keep His commandments and hold fast to Him and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul. – Joshua 22:5

So take diligent heed to yourselves to love the Lord your God. – Joshua 23:11

Bible Verses About Love in Judges

Thus let all Your enemies perish, O Lord; But let those who love Him be like the rising of the sun in its might.” And the land was undisturbed for forty years. – Judges 5:31

Samson’s wife wept before him and said, “You only hate me, and you do not love me; you have propounded a riddle to the sons of my people, and have not told it to me.” And he said to her, “Behold, I have not told it to my father or mother; so should I tell you?” – Judges 14:16</blockquote

After this it came about that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.- Judges 16:4

Then she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have deceived me these three times and have not told me where your great strength is.” – Judges 16:15

Bible Verses About Love in Ruth

May he also be to you a restorer of life and a sustainer of your old age; for your daughter-in-law, who loves you and is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him. – Ruth 4:15

Bible Verses About Love in 1 Samuel

… but to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved Hannah, but the Lord had closed her womb. – 1 Samuel 1:5

Then David came to Saul and attended him; and Saul loved him greatly, and he became his armor bearer. – 1 Samuel 16:21

Now it came about when he had finished speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as himself. – 1 Samuel 18:1

Then Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself. – 1 Samuel 18:3

But all Israel and Judah loved David, and he went out and came in before them. – 1 Samuel 18:16

Now Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David. When they told Saul, the thing was agreeable to him. – 1 Samuel 18:20

Then Saul commanded his servants, “Speak to David secretly, saying, ‘Behold, the king delights in you, and all his servants love you; now therefore, become the king’s son-in-law.'” – 1 Samuel 18:22

When Saul saw and knew that the Lord was with David, and that Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved him, then Saul was even more afraid of David. Thus Saul was David’s enemy continually. – 1 Samuel 18:28-29

Jonathan made David vow again because of his love for him, because he loved him as he loved his own life. – 1 Samuel 20:17

Bible Verses About Love in 2 Samuel

I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was more wonderful Than the love of women. – 2 Samuel 1:26

Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and went in to her and lay with her; and she gave birth to a son, and he named him Solomon. Now the Lord loved him and sent word through Nathan the prophet, and he named him Jedidiah for the Lord’s sake. – 2 Samuel 12:24-25

Now it was after this that Absalom the son of David had a beautiful sister whose name was Tamar, and Amnon the son of David loved her. – 2 Samuel 13:1

He said to him, “O son of the king, why are you so depressed morning after morning? Will you not tell me?” Then Amnon said to him, “I am in love with Tamar, the sister of my brother Absalom.” – 2 Samuel 13:4

Then Amnon hated her with a very great hatred; for the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to her, “Get up, go away!” – 2 Samuel 13:15

Then Joab came into the house to the king and said, “Today you have covered with shame the faces of all your servants, who today have saved your life and the lives of your sons and daughters, the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines, by loving those who hate you, and by hating those who love you. For you have shown today that princes and servants are nothing to you; for I know this day that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today, then you would be pleased. – 2 Samuel 19:5-6

Bible Verses About Love in 1 Kings

Now Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of his father David, except he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. – 1 Kings 3:3

Blessed be the Lord your God who delighted in you to set you on the throne of Israel; because the Lord loved Israel forever, therefore He made you king, to do justice and righteousness. – 1 Kings 10:9

Now King Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women, from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the sons of Israel, “You shall not associate with them, nor shall they associate with you, for they will surely turn your heart away after their gods.” Solomon held fast to these in love. – 1 Kings 11:1-2

Bible Verses About Love in 2 Chronicles

Then Huram, king of Tyre, answered in a letter sent to Solomon: “Because the Lord loves His people, He has made you king over them.” – 2 Chronicles 2:11

Blessed be the Lord your God who delighted in you, setting you on His throne as king for the Lord your God; because your God loved Israel establishing them forever, therefore He made you king over them, to do justice and righteousness. – 2 Chronicles 9:8

Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom more than all his other wives and concubines. For he had taken eighteen wives and sixty concubines and fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters. – 2 Chronicles 11:21

Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord and so bring wrath on yourself from the Lord? – 2 Chronicles 19:2

He built towers in the wilderness and hewed many cisterns, for he had much livestock, both in the lowland and in the plain. He also had plowmen and vinedressers in the hill country and the fertile fields, for he loved the soil. – 2 Chronicles 26:10

Bible Verses About Love in Nehemiah

I said, “I beseech You, O Lord God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who preserves the covenant and lovingkindness for those who love Him and keep His commandments.” – Nehemiah 1:5

Did not Solomon king of Israel sin regarding these things? Yet among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel; nevertheless the foreign women caused even him to sin.

Bible Verses About Love in Esther

The king loved Esther more than all the women, and she found favor and kindness with him more than all the virgins, so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti. – Esther 2:17

Bible Verses About Love in Job

All my associates abhor me, And those I love have turned against me. – Job 19:19

The ostriches’ wings flap joyously With the pinion and plumage of love… – Job 39:13

Bible Verses About Love in Psalm

O sons of men, how long will my honor become a reproach? How long will you love what is worthless and aim at deception? Selah. – Psalm 4:2

But let all who take refuge in You be glad, Let them ever sing for joy; And may You shelter them, That those who love Your name may exult in You. – Psalm 5:11

The Lord tests the righteous and the wicked, And the one who loves violence His soul hates. – Psalm 11:5

For the Lord is righteous, He loves righteousness; The upright will behold His face. – Psalm 11:7

I love You, O Lord, my strength. – Psalm 18:1

O Lord, I love the habitation of Your house And the place where Your glory dwells. – Psalm 26:8

O love the Lord, all you His godly ones! The Lord preserves the faithful And fully recompenses the proud doer. – Psalm 31:23

He loves righteousness and justice; The earth is full of the lovingkindness of the Lord. – Psalm 33:5

Who is the man who desires life And loves length of days that he may see good? – Psalm 34:12

For the Lord loves justice And does not forsake His godly ones; They are preserved forever, But the descendants of the wicked will be cut off. – Psalm 37:28

My loved ones and my friends stand aloof from my plague; And my kinsmen stand afar off. – Psalm 38:11

Let all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; Let those who love Your salvation say continually, “The Lord be magnified!” – Psalm 40:16

[ A Song Celebrating the King’s Marriage. ] [ For the choir director; according to the Shoshannim. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. A Song of Love. ] My heart overflows with a good theme; I address my verses to the King; My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. – Psalm 45:1

You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You With the oil of joy above Your fellows. – Psalm 45:7

He chooses our inheritance for us, The glory of Jacob whom He loves. Selah. – Psalm 47:4

You love evil more than good, Falsehood more than speaking what is right. Selah. – Psalm 52:3

You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue. – Psalm 52:4

The descendants of His servants will inherit it, And those who love His name will dwell in it. – Psalm 69:36

Let all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; And let those who love Your salvation say continually, “Let God be magnified.” – Psalm 70:4

But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which He loved. – Psalm 78:68

The Lord loves the gates of Zion More than all the other dwelling places of Jacob. – Psalm 87:2

Because he has loved Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him securely on high, because he has known My name.- Psalm 91:14

Hate evil, you who love the Lord, Who preserves the souls of His godly ones; He delivers them from the hand of the wicked. – Psalm 97:10

The strength of the King loves justice; You have established equity; You have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob. – Psalm 99:4

In return for my love they act as my accusers; But I am in prayer. – Psalm 109:4

Thus they have repaid me evil for good And hatred for my love. – Psalm 109:5

He also loved cursing, so it came to him; And he did not delight in blessing, so it was far from him. – Psalm 109:17

I love the Lord, because He hears My voice and my supplications. – Psalm 116:1

I shall delight in Your commandments, Which I love. – Psalm 119:47

And I shall lift up my hands to Your commandments, Which I love; And I will meditate on Your statutes. – Psalm 119:48

O how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day. – Psalm 119:97

I hate those who are double-minded, But I love Your law. – Psalm 119:113

You have removed all the wicked of the earth like dross; Therefore I love Your testimonies. – Psalm 119:199

Therefore I love Your commandments Above gold, yes, above fine gold. – Psalm 119:127

Turn to me and be gracious to me, After Your manner with those who love Your name. Psalm 119:132

Your word is very pure, Therefore Your servant loves it. – Psalm 119:140

Consider how I love Your precepts; Revive me, O Lord, according to Your lovingkindness. – Psalm 119:159

I hate and despise falsehood, But I love Your law. – Psalm 119:163

Those who love Your law have great peace, And nothing causes them to stumble. – Psalm 119:165

My soul keeps Your testimonies, And I love them exceedingly. – Psalm 119:167

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May they prosper who love you.” – Psalm 122:6

[ Hope in the Lord’s Forgiving Love. ] [ A Song of Ascents. ] Out of the depths I have cried to You, O Lord. – Psalm 130:1

The Lord keeps all who love Him, But all the wicked He will destroy. – Psalm 145:20

The Lord opens the eyes of the blind; The Lord raises up those who are bowed down; The Lord loves the righteous… – Psalm 146:8

Bible Verses About Love in Proverbs

How long, O naive ones, will you love being simple-minded? And scoffers delight themselves in scoffing And fools hate knowledge? – Proverbs 1:22

For whom the Lord loves He reproves, Even as a father corrects the son in whom he delights. – Proverbs 3:12

Do not forsake her, and she will guard you; Love her, and she will watch over you. – Proverbs 4:6

As a loving hind and a graceful doe, Let her breasts satisfy you at all times; Be exhilarated always with her love. – Proverbs 5:19

Come, let us drink our fill of love until morning; Let us delight ourselves with caresses. – Proverbs 7:18

I love those who love me; And those who diligently seek me will find me. – Proverbs 8:17

To endow those who love me with wealth, That I may fill their treasuries. – Proverbs 8:21

But he who sins against me injures himself; All those who hate me love death. – Proverbs 8:36

Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you, Reprove a wise man and he will love you. – Proverbs 9:8

Hatred stirs up strife, But love covers all transgressions. – Proverbs 10:12

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, But he who hates reproof is stupid. – Proverbs 12:1

He who withholds his rod hates his son, But he who loves him disciplines him diligently. – Proverbs 14:20

The poor is hated even by his neighbor, But those who love the rich are many. – Proverbs 14:20

The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, But He loves one who pursues righteousness. – Proverbs 15:9

A scoffer does not love one who reproves him, He will not go to the wise. – Proverbs 15:12

Better is a dish of vegetables where love is Than a fattened ox served with hatred. – Proverbs 15:17

Righteous lips are the delight of kings, And he who speaks right is loved. – Proverbs 16:13

He who conceals a transgression seeks love, But he who repeats a matter separates intimate friends. – Proverbs 17:9

A friend loves at all times, And a brother is born for adversity. – Proverbs 17:17

He who loves transgression loves strife; He who raises his door seeks destruction. – Proverbs 17:19

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit. – Proverbs 18:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit. – Proverbs 18:21

He who gets wisdom loves his own soul; He who keeps understanding will find good. – Proverbs 19:8

Do not love sleep, or you will become poor; Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with food. – Proverbs 20:13

He who loves pleasure will become a poor man; He who loves wine and oil will not become rich.

He who loves purity of heart And whose speech is gracious, the king is his friend. – Proverbs 22:11

Better is open rebuke Than love that is concealed. – Proverbs 27:5

A man who loves wisdom makes his father glad, But he who keeps company with harlots wastes his wealth. – Proverbs 29:3

Bible Verses About Love in Ecclesiastes

A time to love and a time to hate; A time for war and a time for peace. – Ecclesiastes 3:8

He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves abundance with its income. This too is vanity. – Ecclesiastes 5:10

For I have taken all this to my heart and explain it that righteous men, wise men, and their deeds are in the hand of God. Man does not know whether it will be love or hatred; anything awaits him. – Ecclesiastes 9:1

Indeed their love, their hate and their zeal have already perished, and they will no longer have a share in all that is done under the sun. – Ecclesiastes 9:6

Enjoy life with the woman whom you love all the days of your fleeting life which He has given to you under the sun; for this is your reward in life and in your toil in which you have labored under the sun. – Ecclesiastes 9:9

Bibles Verses About Love in Song of Solomon

May he kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine. – Song of Solomon 1:2

Your oils have a pleasing fragrance, Your name is like purified oil; Therefore the maidens love you. – Song of Solomon 1:3

Draw me after you and let us run together! The king has brought me into his chambers.” “We will rejoice in you and be glad; We will extol your love more than wine. Rightly do they love you. – Song of Solomon 1:4

Tell me, O you whom my soul loves, Where do you pasture your flock, Where do you make it lie down at noon? For why should I be like one who veils herself Beside the flocks of your companions? – Song of Solmon 1:7

He has brought me to his banquet hall, And his banner over me is love. – Song of Solomon 2:4

On my bed night after night I sought him Whom my soul loves; I sought him but did not find him. – Song of Solomon 3:1

I must arise now and go about the city; In the streets and in the squares I must seek him whom my soul loves.’ I sought him but did not find him. – Song of Solomon 3:2

The watchmen who make the rounds in the city found me, And I said, ‘Have you seen him whom my soul loves? – Song of Solomon 3:3

Scarcely had I left them When I found him whom my soul loves; I held on to him and would not let him go Until I had brought him to my mother’s house, And into the room of her who conceived me. – Song of Solomon 3:4

How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, And the fragrance of your oils Than all kinds of spices! – Song of Solomon 4:10

Put me like a seal over your heart, Like a seal on your arm. For love is as strong as death, Jealousy is as severe as Sheol; Its flashes are flashes of fire, The very flame of the Lord. – Song of Solomon 8:6

Many waters cannot quench love, Nor will rivers overflow it; If a man were to give all the riches of his house for love, It would be utterly despised. – Song of Solomon 8:7

Bible Verses About Love in Isaiah

Your rulers are rebels And companions of thieves; Everyone loves a bribe And chases after rewards. They do not defend the orphan, Nor does the widow’s plea come before them. – Isaiah 1:23

Assemble, all of you, and listen! Who among them has declared these things? The Lord loves him; he will carry out His good pleasure on Babylon, And His arm will be against the Chaldeans. – Isaiah 48:14

Also the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord, To minister to Him, and to love the name of the Lord, To be His servants, every one who keeps from profaning the sabbath And holds fast My covenant… – Isaiah 56:6

His watchmen are blind, All of them know nothing. All of them are mute dogs unable to bark, Dreamers lying down, who love to slumber… – Isaiah 56:10

Behind the door and the doorpost You have set up your sign; Indeed, far removed from Me, you have uncovered yourself, And have gone up and made your bed wide. And you have made an agreement for yourself with them, You have loved their bed, You have looked on their manhood. – Isaiah 57:8

For I, the Lord, love justice, I hate robbery in the burnt offering; And I will faithfully give them their recompense And make an everlasting covenant with them. – Isaiah 61:8

In all their affliction He was afflicted, And the angel of His presence saved them; In His love and in His mercy He redeemed them, And He lifted them and carried them all the days of old. – Isaiah 63:9

Be joyful with Jerusalem and rejoice for her, all you who love her; Be exceedingly glad with her, all you who mourn over her… – Isaiah 66:10

Bible Verses About Love in Jeremiah

Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord, “I remember concerning you the devotion of your youth, The love of your betrothals, Your following after Me in the wilderness, Through a land not sown. – Jeremiah 2:2

Keep your feet from being unshod And your throat from thirst; But you said, ‘It is hopeless! No! For I have loved strangers, And after them I will walk. – Jeremiah 2:25

How well you prepare your way To seek love! Therefore even the wicked women You have taught your ways. – Jeremiah 2:33

The prophets prophesy falsely, And the priests rule on their own authority; And My people love it so! But what will you do at the end of it? – Jeremiah 5:31

They will spread them out to the sun, the moon and to all the host of heaven, which they have loved and which they have served, and which they have gone after and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped. They will not be gathered or buried; they will be as dung on the face of the ground. – Jeremiah 8:2

Thus says the Lord to this people, “Even so they have loved to wander; they have not kept their feet in check. Therefore the Lord does not accept them; now He will remember their iniquity and call their sins to account.” – Jeremiah 14:10

The Lord appeared to him from afar, saying, “I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore I have drawn you with lovingkindness. – Jeremiah 31:3

Bible Verses About Love in Ezekiel

Then I passed by you and saw you, and behold, you were at the time for love; so I spread My skirt over you and covered your nakedness. I also swore to you and entered into a covenant with you so that you became Mine,” declares the Lord God. – Ezekiel 16:8

… therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, even all those whom you loved and all those whom you hated. So I will gather them against you from every direction and expose your nakedness to them that they may see all your nakedness. – Ezekiel 16:37

The Babylonians came to her to the bed of love and defiled her with their harlotry. And when she had been defiled by them, she became disgusted with them. – Ezekiel 23:17

Bible Verses About Love in Daniel

I prayed to the Lord my God and confessed and said, “Alas, O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and lovingkindness for those who love Him and keep His commandments… – Daniel 9:4

Bible Verses About Love in Hosea

Then the Lord said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by her husband, yet an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the sons of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes. – Hosea 3:1

Their liquor gone, They play the harlot continually; Their rulers dearly love shame. – Hosea 4:18

Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations! For you have played the harlot, forsaking your God. You have loved harlots’ earnings on every threshing floor. – Hosea 9:1

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your forefathers as the earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season. But they came to Baal-peor and devoted themselves to shame, And they became as detestable as that which they loved. – Hosea 9:10

All their evil is at Gilgal; Indeed, I came to hate them there! Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of My house! I will love them no more; All their princes are rebels. – Hosea 9:15

Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh, But I will come over her fair neck with a yoke; I will harness Ephraim, Judah will plow, Jacob will harrow for himself. – Hosea 10:11

When Israel was a youth I loved him, And out of Egypt I called My son. – Hosea 11:1

I led them with cords of a man, with bonds of love, And I became to them as one who lifts the yoke from their jaws; And I bent down and fed them. – Hosea 11:4

A merchant, in whose hands are false balances, He loves to oppress. – Hosea 12:7

I will heal their apostasy, I will love them freely, For My anger has turned away from them. – Hosea 14:4

Bible Verses About Love in Amos

Offer a thank offering also from that which is leavened, And proclaim freewill offerings, make them known. For so you love to do, you sons of Israel,” Declares the Lord God. – Amos 4:5

Hate evil, love good, And establish justice in the gate! Perhaps the Lord God of hosts May be gracious to the remnant of Joseph. – Amos 5:15

Bible Verses About Love in Micah

You who hate good and love evil, Who tear off their skin from them And their flesh from their bones…. – Micah 3:2

He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God? – Micah 6:8

Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity And passes over the rebellious act of the remnant of His possession? He does not retain His anger forever, Because He delights in unchanging love. – Micah 7:18

You will give truth to Jacob And unchanging love to Abraham, Which You swore to our forefathers From the days of old. – Micah 7:20

Bible Verses About Love in Zephaniah

The Lord your God is in your midst, A victorious warrior. He will exult over you with joy, He will be quiet in His love, He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy. – Zephaniah 3:17

Also let none of you devise evil in your heart against another, and do not love perjury; for all these are what I hate,’ declares the Lord.” – Zechariah 8:17

Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘The fast of the fourth, the fast of the fifth, the fast of the seventh and the fast of the tenth months will become joy, gladness, and cheerful feasts for the house of Judah; so love truth and peace.’ – Zechariah 8:19

Bible Verses About Love in Malachi

I have loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob but I have hated Esau, and I have made his mountains a desolation and appointed his inheritance for the jackals of the wilderness.” – Malachi 1:2-3

Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord which He loves and has married the daughter of a foreign god. – Malachi 2:11

Bible Verses About Love in Matthew

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you … For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? – Matthew 5:43-44, 46

When you pray, you are not to be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the street corners so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full. – Matthew 6:5

No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth. – Matthew 6:24

He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. – Matthew 10:37

Honor your father and mother; and You shall love your neighbor as yourself. – Matthew 19:19

And He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ – Matthew 22:37

The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ – Matthew 22:39

They love the place of honor at banquets and the chief seats in the synagogues… – Matthew 23:6

Because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will grow cold. – Matthew 24:12

Bible Verses About Love in Mark

Looking at him, Jesus felt a love for him and said to him, “One thing you lack: go and sell all you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.” – Mark 10:21

… and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ – Mark 12:30

The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” – Mark 12:31

… and to love Him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as himself, is much more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.” – Mark 12:33

Bible Verses About Love in Luke

But I say to you who hear, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you… – Luke 6:27

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. – Luke 6:32

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He Himself is kind to ungrateful and evil men. – Luke 6:35

… for he loves our nation and it was he who built us our synagogue. – Luke 7:5

When they were unable to repay, he graciously forgave them both. So which of them will love him more? – Luke 7:42

For this reason I say to you, her sins, which are many, have been forgiven, for she loved much; but he who is forgiven little, loves little. – Luke 7:47

And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” – Luke 10:27

But woe to you Pharisees! For you pay tithe of mint and rue and every kind of garden herb, and yet disregard justice and the love of God; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others. – Luke 11:42

Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the chief seats in the synagogues and the respectful greetings in the market places. – Luke 11:43

No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth. – Luke 16:13

Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and love respectful greetings in the market places, and chief seats in the synagogues and places of honor at banquets… – Luke 20:46

Bible Verses About Love in John

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. – John 3:16

This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. – John 3:19

The Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hand. – John 3:35

For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself is doing; and the Father will show Him greater works than these, so that you will marvel. – John 5:20

… but I know you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves. – John 5:42

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and have come from God, for I have not even come on My own initiative, but He sent Me. – John 8:42

For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it again. – John 10:17

So the sisters sent word to Him, saying, “Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick.” – John 11:3

Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. – John 11:5

So the Jews were saying, “See how He loved him!” – JOhn 11:36

He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal. – John 12:25

… for they loved the approval of men rather than the approval of God. – John 12:43

Now before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come that He would depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end. – John 13:1

There was reclining on Jesus’ bosom one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved. – John 13:23

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. – John 13:34

By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another. – John 13:35

If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. – John 14:15

He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him. – John 14:21

Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him. He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me. John 14:23-24

You heard that I said to you, ‘I go away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced because I go to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. – John 14:28

… but so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the Father commanded Me. Get up, let us go from here. – John 14:31

Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love. – John 15:9

If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. – John 15:10

This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. – John 15:12-13

This I command you, that you love one another. – John 15:17

If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you. – John 15:19

… for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came forth from the Father. – John 16:27

I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world. – John 17:23-24

… and I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them. – John 17:26

When Jesus then saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” – John 19:26

So she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him.” – John 20:2

Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord.” So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put his outer garment on (for he was stripped for work), and threw himself into the sea. – John 21:7

So when they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these?” He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He said to him, “Tend My lambs.” He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?” He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He said to him, “Shepherd My sheep.” He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?” Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, “Do you love Me?” And he said to Him, “Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You.” Jesus said to him, “Tend My sheep. – John 21:15-17

Peter, turning around, saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them; the one who also had leaned back on His bosom at the supper and said, “Lord, who is the one who betrays You?” – John 21:20

Bible Verses About Love in Romans

… and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. – Romans 5:5

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. – Romans 5:8

And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. – Romans 8:28

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? – Romans 8:35

But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. – Romans 8:37

… 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. – Romans 8:39

Just as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.” – Romans 9:13

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good. – Romans 12:9

Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor… – Romans 12:10

Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. – Romans 13:8

For this, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this saying, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” – Romans 13:9

Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. – Romans 13:10

For if because of food your brother is hurt, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy with your food him for whom Christ died. – Romans 14:15

Now I urge you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God for me… – Romans 15:30

Bible Verses About Love in 1 Corinthians

… but just as it is written, “Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, And which have not entered the heart of man, All that God has prepared for those who love Him. – 1 Corinthians 2:9

What do you desire? Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love and a spirit of gentleness? – 1 Corinthians 4:21

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge makes arrogant, but love edifies. – 1 Corinthians 8:1

… but if anyone loves God, he is known by Him. – 1 Corinthians 8:3

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing. Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant… – 1 Corinthians 13:1-4

Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. – 1 Corinthians 13:8

But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love. – 1 Corinthians 13:13

Pursue love, yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. – 1 Corinthians 14:1

Let all that you do be done in love. – 1 Corinthians 16:14

If anyone does not love the Lord, he is to be accursed. Maranatha. – 1 Corinthians 16:22

My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen. – 1 Corinthians 16:24

Bible Verses About 2 Corinthians

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not so that you would be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love which I have especially for you. – 2 Corinthians 2:4

Wherefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him. – 2 Corinthians 2:8

For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died; and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf. – 2 Corinthians 5:14-15

… in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in genuine love… – 2 Corinthians 6:6

But just as you abound in everything, in faith and utterance and knowledge and in all earnestness and in the love we inspired in you, see that you abound in this gracious work also. – 2 Corinthians 8:7

I am not speaking this as a command, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity of your love also. – 2 Corinthians 8:8

Therefore openly before the churches, show them the proof of your love and of our reason for boasting about you. – 2 Corinthians 8:24

Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. – 2 Corinthians 9:7

Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do! – 2 Corinthians 11:11

I will most gladly spend and be expended for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less? – 2 Corinthians 12:15

Finally, brethren, rejoice, be made complete, be comforted, be like-minded, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you. – 2 Corinthians 13:11

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. – 2 Corinthians 13:14

Bible Verses About Love in Galatians

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. – Galatians 2:20

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love. – Galatians 5:6

For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole Law is fulfilled in one word, in the statement, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” – Galatians 5:13-14

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. – Galatians 5:22-23

Bible Verses About Love in Ephesians

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will… – Ephesians 1:3-5

For this reason I too, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which exists among you and your love for all the saints… – Ephesians 1:15

But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us… – Ephesians 2:4

… so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love… – Ephesians 3:17

… and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. –

… with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing tolerance for one another in love… Ephesians 4:2

… but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love. – Ephesians 4:15-16

… and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma… – Ephesians 5:2

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her… – Ephesians 5:25

So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself… – Ephesians 5:28

Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband. –

Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. – Ephesians 6:23

Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. – Ephesians 6:24

Bibles Verses on Love in Philippians

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment… – Philippians 1:9

… the latter do it out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel… – Philippians 1:16

Therefore if there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any consolation of love, if there is any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion, make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose. – Philippians 2:1-2

Bibles Versons on Love in Colossians

… since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love which you have for all the saints… – Colossians 1:4

… and he also informed us of your love in the Spirit. – Colossians 1:8

… that their hearts may be encouraged, having been knit together in love, and attaining to all the wealth that comes from the full assurance of understanding, resulting in a true knowledge of God’s mystery, that is, Christ Himself… – Colossians 2:2

Beyond all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity. – Colossians 3:14

Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them. – Colossians 3:19

Bible Verses on Love in 1 Thessalonians

… constantly bearing in mind your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father… – 1 Thessalonians 1:3

But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us good news of your faith and love, and that you always think kindly of us, longing to see us just as we also long to see you… – 1 Thessalonians 3:6

… and may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another, and for all people, just as we also do for you… – 1 Thessalonians 3:12

Now as to the love of the brethren, you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another… – 1 Thessalonians 4:9

But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation. – 1 Thessalonians 5:8

… and that you esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Live in peace with one another. – 1 Thessalonians 5:13

Bible Verses on Love in 2 Thessalonians

We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brethren, as is only fitting, because your faith is greatly enlarged, and the love of each one of you toward one another grows ever greater… – 2 Thessalonians 1:

… and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved. – 2 Thessalonians 2:10

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope by grace… – 2 Thessalonians 2:16

May the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the steadfastness of Christ. – 2 Thessalonians 3:5

Bible Verses on Love in 1 Timothy

But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. – 1 Timothy 1:5

… and the grace of our Lord was more than abundant, with the faith and love which are found in Christ Jesus. – 1 Timothy 1:14

But women will be preserved through the bearing of children if they continue in faith and love and sanctity with self-restraint. – 1 Timothy 2:15

… not addicted to wine or pugnacious, but gentle, peaceable, free from the love of money. – 1 Timothy 3:3

Let no one look down on your youthfulness, but rather in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity, show yourself an example of those who believe. – 1 Timothy 4:12

For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. – 1 Timothy 6:10

But flee from these things, you man of God, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance and gentleness. – 1 Timothy 6:11

Bible Verses on Love in 2 Timothy

For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline. – 2 Timothy 1:7

Retain the standard of sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. – 2 Timothy 1:13

Now flee from youthful lusts and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart. – 2 Timothy 2:22

Now you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance… – 2 Timothy 3:10

in the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved His appearing. – 2 Timothy 4:8

… for Demas, having loved this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia. – 2 Timothy 4:10

Bible Verses on Love in Titus

Older men are to be temperate, dignified, sensible, sound in faith, in love, in perseverance. – Titus 2:2

… so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children… – Titus 2:4

But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared… – Titus 3:4

All who are with me greet you. Greet those who love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. – Titus 3:15

Bible Verses on Love in Philemon

… because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints… – Philemon 1:5

For I have come to have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother. – Philemon 1:7

… yet for love’s sake I rather appeal to you—since I am such a person as Paul, the aged, and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus… – Philemon 1:9

Bible Verses on Love in Hebrews

You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You With the oil of gladness above Your companions. – Hebrews 1:9

For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward His name, in having ministered and in still ministering to the saints. – Hebrews 6:10

… and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds… – Hebrews 10:24

For those whom the Lord loves He disciplines, And He scourges every son whom He receives. – Hebrews 12:6

Let love of the brethren continue. – Hebrews 13:1

Make sure that your character is free from the love of money, being content with what you have; for He Himself has said, “I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you…” – Hebrews 13:5

Bible Verses on Love in James

Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him. – James 1:12

Listen, my beloved brethren: did not God choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him? – James 2:5

If, however, you are fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. – James 2:8

Bible Verses on Love in 1 Peter

… and though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory… – 1 Peter 1:8

Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart… – 1 Peter 1:22

Honor all people, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king. – 1 Peter 2:17

For, “The one who desires life, to love and see good days, Must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit. – 1 Peter 3:10

Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins. – 1 Peter 4:8

Greet one another with a kiss of love. Peace be to you all who are in Christ. – 1 Peter 5:14

Bible Verses on Love in 2 Peter

… and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love. – 2 Peter 1:7

… forsaking the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness… – 2 Peter 2:15

Bible Verses on Love in 1 John

… but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him… – 1 John 2:5

The one who loves his brother abides in the Light and there is no cause for stumbling in him. – 1 John 2:10

Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. – 1 John 2:15

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. – 1 John 3:1

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother. For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another… – 1 John 3:10-11

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love abides in death. – 1 John 3:14

We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him? Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth. – 1 John 3:16-18

This is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded us. – 1 John 3:23

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us. – 1 John 4:7-12

We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love. We love, because He first loved us. If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should love his brother also. – 1 John 4:16-21

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and whoever loves the Father loves the child born of Him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and observe His commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome. – 1 John 5:1-3

Bible Verses on Love in 2 John

The elder to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not only I, but also all who know the truth… – 2 John 1:1

Grace, mercy and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love. – 2 John 1:3

Now I ask you, lady, not as though I were writing to you a new commandment, but the one which we have had from the beginning, that we love one another. And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it. – 2 John 1:5-6

Bible Verses on Love in 3 John

The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth. – 3 John 1:1

… and they have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God. – 3 John 1:6

I wrote something to the church; but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, does not accept what we say. – 3 John 1:9

May mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you. – Jude 1:2

These are the men who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted… Jude 1:12

Keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life. – Jude 1:21

Bible Verses on Love in Revelation

… and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and released us from our sins by His blood… – Revelation 1:5

But I have this against you, that you have left your first love. – Revelation 2:4

I know your deeds, and your love and faith and service and perseverance, and that your deeds of late are greater than at first. – Revelation 2:19

Behold, I will cause those of the synagogue of Satan, who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie—I will make them come and bow down at your feet, and make them know that I have loved you. – Revelation 3:9

Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent. – Revelation 3:19

And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life even when faced with death. – Revelation 12:11

Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the immoral persons and the murderers and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying. – Revelation 22:15