Relationships

What the Bible says about love

The 15 verses readers most often turn to for this topic, quoted in full from the Berean Standard Bible.

1 John 4:8Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

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

1 Cor 13:4–6Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs. Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.

1 Pet 4:8Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

1 Cor 13:13And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.

1 Cor 16:14Do everything in love.

John 13:34–35A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”

Gal 5:13For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.

John 15:13Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

1 John 3:18Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.

Rom 8:38–39For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Rom 5:8But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Prov 10:12Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.

1 Cor 13:7It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

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

These are the verses readers most often turn to for this topic — not a teaching on it. Read each in its chapter.

Sources

The verses of each topic and their order: OpenBible.info topical data, by readers’ votes: OpenBible.info · CC BY 4.0

Berean Standard Bible · Public domain