Possibly the most famous Bible quote about love is found in 1 Corinthians chapter 13, which provides a thorough description of love saying, "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." - 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
"Love" is actually one of the most frequently used terms in the Bible, found 310 times in 280 verses in the KJV translation. Love can be seen as embodying the benevolence of God expressed as humans towards God and each other. Therefore it is essential that we are in communion with God in order to possess and share love with those in our life. May these Bible quotes about love inspire you to seek the Kingdom of God and the love of our Lord, Jesus Christ.
Bible Quotes about Love
Let all that you do be done in love. - 1 Corinthians 16:14
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. - 1 Peter 4:8
And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. - Colossians 3:14
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. - John 15:13
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 4:18
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. - 1 Corinthians 13:13
Bible Quotes about God's Love
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. - John 3:16
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. - Romans 5:8
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. - Zephaniah 3:17
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. - 1 John 4:16
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 John 3:1
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 8:37-39
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. - Galatians 2:20
We love because he first loved us. - 1 John 4:19
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. - 1 John 4:8
Bible Quotes about Loving One Another
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.” - John 13:34-35
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. - 1 John 4:20
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. - 1 Peter 4:8
Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. - Romans 12:10
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. 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. - 1 John 4:7-10
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. - 1 John 4:11
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. - Romans 13:8
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. - 1 John 3:18
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. - Galatians 5:13
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. - John 15:12
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