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100 Bible Verses about Love Is

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 3,015 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 1,745 helpful votes

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

1 John 4:7 ESV / 1,405 helpful votes

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

1 John 4:19 ESV / 1,218 helpful votes

We love because he first loved us.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 1,190 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

John 13:34 ESV / 1,166 helpful votes

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

John 3:16 ESV / 1,141 helpful votes

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

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 1,051 helpful votes

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

John 15:13 ESV / 845 helpful votes

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Matthew 5:43-48 ESV / 819 helpful votes

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? ...

1 John 4:18 ESV / 710 helpful votes

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

1 John 4:20 ESV / 635 helpful votes

If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

Romans 13:10 ESV / 608 helpful votes

Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 582 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

1 Corinthians 13:4-5 ESV / 578 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

John 14:15 ESV / 570 helpful votes

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 565 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 552 helpful votes

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

1 Corinthians 16:14 ESV / 551 helpful votes

Let all that you do be done in love.

Colossians 3:14 ESV / 529 helpful votes

And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 527 helpful votes

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 486 helpful votes

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

1 John 4:16 ESV / 473 helpful votes

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

John 13:34-35 ESV / 460 helpful votes

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

1 John 3:1 ESV / 457 helpful votes

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 445 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant

Romans 13:8 ESV / 441 helpful votes

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

1 John 4:8 ESV / 439 helpful votes

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 403 helpful votes

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

1 John 4:11 ESV / 392 helpful votes

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 383 helpful votes

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 362 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 356 helpful votes

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Song of Solomon 8:6-7 ESV / 348 helpful votes

Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised.

Hebrews 13:1 ESV / 346 helpful votes

Let brotherly love continue.

Romans 12:9 ESV / 346 helpful votes

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

Deuteronomy 7:9 ESV / 341 helpful votes

Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

John 15:12 ESV / 337 helpful votes

“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

1 Corinthians 13:2 ESV / 318 helpful votes

And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

John 14:21 ESV / 317 helpful votes

Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”

Romans 8:37-39 ESV / 313 helpful votes

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 12:10 ESV / 312 helpful votes

Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 301 helpful votes

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Mark 12:31 ESV / 301 helpful votes

The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

1 Corinthians 13:1 ESV / 300 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Matthew 22:37-39 ESV / 298 helpful votes

And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

1 John 3:18 ESV / 297 helpful votes

Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

John 14:23 ESV / 297 helpful votes

Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

1 John 3:16-18 ESV / 293 helpful votes

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

Proverbs 17:9 ESV / 289 helpful votes

Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 284 helpful votes

You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 273 helpful votes

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

1 John 4:12 ESV / 267 helpful votes

No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 256 helpful votes

However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Proverbs 3:3-4 ESV / 255 helpful votes

Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man.

Luke 6:35 ESV / 250 helpful votes

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.

1 John 4:7-8 ESV / 248 helpful votes

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Song of Solomon 8:7 ESV / 239 helpful votes

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised.

Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 232 helpful votes

The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.

1 John 4:9-10 ESV / 229 helpful votes

In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Ephesians 2:4-5 ESV / 221 helpful votes

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

Psalm 143:8 ESV / 208 helpful votes

Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.

Mark 12:30 ESV / 207 helpful votes

And 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.’

Romans 8:35-39 ESV / 206 helpful votes

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 Peter 5:6-7 ESV / 203 helpful votes

Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

John 13:35 ESV / 203 helpful votes

By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 199 helpful votes

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Mark 12:29-31 ESV / 188 helpful votes

Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And 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.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Matthew 5:22 ESV / 187 helpful votes

But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.

1 Peter 1:22 ESV / 186 helpful votes

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,

Romans 8:28 ESV / 185 helpful votes

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Psalm 86:15 ESV / 183 helpful votes

But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

Proverbs 30:18-19 ESV / 179 helpful votes

Three things are too wonderful for me; four I do not understand: the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a virgin.

1 John 3:16 ESV / 173 helpful votes

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Ephesians 4:2-3 ESV / 164 helpful votes

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Isaiah 43:4 ESV / 162 helpful votes

Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you, I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life.

Song of Solomon 4:10 ESV / 160 helpful votes

How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your oils than any spice!

Luke 6:31 ESV / 158 helpful votes

And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.

Song of Solomon 8:6 ESV / 157 helpful votes

Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord.

Psalm 63:3 ESV / 155 helpful votes

Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you.

1 Thessalonians 5:14 ESV / 152 helpful votes

And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.

1 Corinthians 5:2 ESV / 152 helpful votes

And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.

1 Corinthians 10:24 ESV / 148 helpful votes

Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.

John 3:1-36 ESV / 143 helpful votes

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ...

Galatians 5:13 ESV / 141 helpful votes

For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

Genesis 29:20 ESV / 140 helpful votes

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.

1 Corinthians 13:8 ESV / 139 helpful votes

Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

Song of Solomon 2:16 ESV / 139 helpful votes

My beloved is mine, and I am his; he grazes among the lilies.

John 15:10 ESV / 137 helpful votes

If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

1 Corinthians 1:1-31 ESV / 135 helpful votes

Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes, To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge— ...

Proverbs 15:17 ESV / 135 helpful votes

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.

1 John 4:10 ESV / 133 helpful votes

In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Matthew 22:36-40 ESV / 133 helpful votes

“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

Song of Solomon 1:2 ESV / 133 helpful votes

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine;

John 15:12-13 ESV / 124 helpful votes

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

Romans 5:5 ESV / 119 helpful votes

And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

Jeremiah 31:3 ESV / 119 helpful votes

The Lord appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.

1 John 5:3 ESV / 116 helpful votes

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.

Psalm 18:1 ESV / 116 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, the servant of the Lord, who addressed the words of this song to the Lord on the day when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love you, O Lord, my strength.

2 Corinthians 5:14 ESV / 114 helpful votes

For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died;

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