“God is love” – no sentence summarizes the Bible more concisely. Here you will find 22 Bible verses about love: about God’s love for people, which nothing can separate, and the famous “love song” of 1 Corinthians 13. Verses about love for others can be found at Bible verses about loving your neighbor, and about love for God at Bible verses about love for God.
God loves you
The great verses about God’s love.
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For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16GospelEternal life
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God is love; and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
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In this was shown the love of God toward us, that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, 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 make atonement for our sins.
1 John 4:9-10
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Therefore let us glorify God for his love toward us, that Christ died for us while we were still sinners.
Romans 5:8GospelGood Friday
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For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither things present nor things to come, neither 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.
Romans 8:38-39FarewellHeartbreak
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The Lord appeared to me from afar: I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you to myself with great kindness.
Jeremiah 31:3HeartbreakSelf-worth
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Because you are so highly valued in my eyes, you must also be glorious, and I love you.
Isaiah 43:4aYouthHeartbreak
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For the Lord your God is with you, a mighty savior; he will rejoice over you, and he will be gracious to you, and he will forgive you, and he will rejoice over you with shouts of joy.
Zephaniah 3:17EncouragementJoy
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That Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, and that you may be rooted and grounded in love, so that you may comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height; and also to know the love of Christ, which surpasses all knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Ephesians 3:17-19
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See what great love the Father has shown us, that we should be called children of God!
1 John 3:1aGod as FatherIdentity in Christ
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As my Father loves me, so I also love you. Abide in my love!
John 15:9First CommunionBaptismal verses
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Let us love him, for he first loved us.
1 John 4:19WeddingLove for God
The love song
1 Corinthians 13 – one of the most-read texts at weddings.
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If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and do not have love, I am nothing but a clanging cymbal or a sounding gong.
1 Corinthians 13:1
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And though I could prophesy and have the knowledge of all mysteries and all understanding, and though I had all faith, so that I could move mountains, and had not love, I would be nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:2
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Love is patient and kind; love does not envy; love does not boast; love is not proud; love does not seek its own; love is not easily angered; love does not rejoice in iniquity; love rejoices in the truth; love bears all things; love believes all things; love hopes all things; love endures all things.
1 Corinthians 13:4-5
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It does not rejoice in injustice, but rejoices in the truth; it bears all things; it believes all things; it hopes all things; it endures all things.
1 Corinthians 13:6-7
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Love never fails.
1 Corinthians 13:8aWedding
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But now faith, hope, and love remain, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
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Set me as a seal upon your heart and upon your arm. For love is strong as death, and jealousy is fierce as hell. Its flame is fiery, and it is a flame of the Lord, that no many waters can quench love.
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Let all your things be done in love!
1 Corinthians 16:14WeddingSchool enrollment
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But above all things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.
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Fear has nothing to do with love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has torment. But whoever fears is not perfect in love.
1 John 4:18FearConfirmation verses
Bible texts: Luther Bible 1912 (public domain), carefully adapted to modern spelling.
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What the Bible means by love
The New Testament usually uses the Greek word agape for love. It does not mean infatuation, but a love that chooses and commits itself to another. John shows where it comes from: “In this is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us” (1 John 4:10). God’s love is therefore not a reward for good behavior, but the beginning of everything. Paul is convinced that nothing—neither death nor life, neither things present nor things to come—can separate us from this love (Romans 8:38-39).
The love song
1 Corinthians 13 is one of the best-known texts in the Bible and is read at almost every second church wedding. Originally, Paul wrote it to a divided congregation that boasted of spiritual gifts. His answer: Without love, everything is nothing. Then he describes what love does—it is patient and kind, it does not seek its own, it bears all things. In the end, it says: “But now faith, hope, and love remain, these three; and the greatest of these is love” (1 Corinthians 13:13). You can find verses for the wedding ceremony at Wedding verses: Bible verses for weddings.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the most beautiful Bible verse about love?
John 3:16, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, 1 Corinthians 13:13, and 1 John 4:16 are very often chosen: “God is love; and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.”
Where is the love song found?
In 1 Corinthians 13. The name “love song” is a reference to the biblical book Song of Solomon, which also tells of love.
