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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.

John 3:16

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For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

1 John 4:7-8

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Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

Romans 8:38-39

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For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from God’s love, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

John 15:12-13

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“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

1 Peter 4:8

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And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

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.

Song of Solomon 8:7

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Many waters can’t quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned.

1 John 4:18-19

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There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love. We love him, because he first loved us.

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