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Bible Verses About Love

Love is the heartbeat of the whole Bible — God's love for us, and the love we're called to show one another. These Bible verses about love describe what real, patient, sacrificial love looks like.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7

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Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Mark 12:30-31

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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.’ This is the first commandment. The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Colossians 3:14

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Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

Ephesians 4:2

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with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

Proverbs 10:12

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Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

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