Love is one of the most common topics found throughout the Bible. We are continually reminded of God’s love for us and challenged to love those around us. The word “love” appears well over 300 times in the Bible and many of the most well-known verses focus on this same topic.
Since love is such a prominent theme I wanted to create a list of the best Bible verses about love. I believe reading through these verses will encourage you to see the love God has for you and challenge you to love others the same way.
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Best Bible Verses About Love
Read through this list and meditate on what the Bible teaches you about love. My guess is a bible verse about love will stand out, write it down and reflect on it this week. Maybe even memorize and share it with a friend.
Here are the 39 best Bible verses about love that will encourage and uplift you no matter what you are facing in life.
Most Popular Bible Verses About Love
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.
1 CORINTHIANS 13:4-8
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
COLOSSIANS 3:14
And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
1 CORINTHIANS 13:13
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
1 JOHN 4:7-8
Dear friends, let us love one another, for 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.
1 CORINTHIANS 16:14
Do everything in love.
JOHN 15:13
Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
JOHN 13:34-35
A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.
Bible Verses About Gods Love
1 JOHN 4:9-12
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. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
JOHN 15:9-10
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.
PSALM 86:15
But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.
DEUTERONOMY 7:9
Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.
ROMANS 5:8
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
EPHESIANS 2:4-5
But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.
1 JOHN 3:1
See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
Bible Verses About Our Love For God
1 JOHN 4:7-8
Dear friends, let us love one another, for 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.
JOHN 15:9-10
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.
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.
MARK 12:29-31
“The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”
JOHN 14:15
If you love me, keep my commands.
Bible Verses About Loving One An Other
1 JOHN 4:19
We love because he first loved us.
JOHN 15:12-13
My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
1 CORINTHIANS 13:4-8
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
ROMANS 13:8
Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.
PROVERBS 17:17
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.
1 JOHN 4:11
Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
1 PETER 4:8
Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
1 CORINTHIANS 16:14
Do everything in love.
PROVERBS 3:3-4
Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man.
EPHESIANS 4:2
Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
Bible Verses About Love In A Marriage
EPHESIANS 5:22-33
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— for we are members of his body. “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
SONG OF SOLOMON 8:3
His left arm is under my head and his right arm embraces me.
ECCLESIASTES 4:9-12
Two are better than one,
because they have a good return for their labor:
If either of them falls down,
one can help the other up.
But pity anyone who falls
and has no one to help them up.
Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm.
But how can one keep warm alone?
Though one may be overpowered,
two can defend themselves.
A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
MATTHEW 19:4-6
“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female, ’and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
SONG OF SOLOMON 4:9
You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride;
you have stolen my heart
with one glance of your eyes,
with one jewel of your necklace.
Bible Verses About Loving Our Enemies
LUKE 6:27-31
But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also. If someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt from them. Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back. Do to others as you would have them do to you.
MATTHEW 5:43-48
You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
ROMANS 12:20-21
If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head. Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
PROVERBS 10:12
Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs.
Which of these famous Bible verses about love stood out to you? Write it down, reflect on it, and maybe even share it with a friend.
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