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Love 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. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
1 Corinthians 13:4–7BSB

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Bible verses about love: God’s love, love between people, love of neighbors and of enemies. The best known include 1 Corinthians 13, John 3:16 and 1 John 4, which says that God is love. Draw one at random or browse the full list below.

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Many verses about love belong to a longer passage. 1 Corinthians 13:4–7 is a good example: the verses are often read at weddings, but in the letter they are part of Paul’s discussion of spiritual gifts in the church at Corinth. Passages of several verses can be drawn and shown as one unit here. The context view opens the surrounding chapter. For a wedding, the marriage page lists verses that are often chosen for ceremonies, invitations and cards.

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  1. 1 Corinthians 13:4–7

    Love 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. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

  2. John 3:16

    For 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.

  3. 1 John 4:19

    We love because He first loved us.

  4. Romans 8:38–39

    For 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.

  5. Jeremiah 31:3

    The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.

  6. 1 Corinthians 13:13

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

  7. John 15:13

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

  8. 1 John 4:8

    Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

  9. Zephaniah 3:16–17

    On that day they will say to Jerusalem: “Do not fear, O Zion; do not let your hands fall limp. The LORD your God is among you; He is mighty to save. He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you with His love; He will rejoice over you with singing.”

  10. John 13:34

    A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.

  11. Romans 5:8

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

  12. 1 Peter 4:8

    Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

  13. Lamentations 3:22–23

    Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!

  14. Mark 12:31

    The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.

  15. Colossians 3:14

    And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity.

  16. Ephesians 4:32

    Be kind and tenderhearted to one another, forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you.

  17. 1 John 4:18

    There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been perfected in love.

  18. 1 John 4:7

    Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

  19. Galatians 5:22–23

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

  20. 1 John 4:16

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

  21. Proverbs 27:5

    Better an open rebuke than love that is concealed.

  22. 1 John 3:18

    Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.

  23. Galatians 2:20

    I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

  24. Ephesians 5:25–27

    Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.

  25. Romans 12:10

    Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.

  26. Leviticus 19:18

    Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.

  27. Ephesians 5:33

    Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

  28. 1 John 4:20

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

  29. Matthew 22:37

    Jesus declared, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’

  30. Isaiah 43:4

    Because you are precious and honored in My sight, and because I love you, I will give men in exchange for you and nations in place of your life.

  31. Romans 13:8

    Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

  32. 1 Corinthians 16:14

    Do everything in love.

  33. 1 John 3:1

    Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.

  34. 1 Corinthians 14:1

    Earnestly pursue love and eagerly desire spiritual gifts, especially the gift of prophecy.

  35. 1 John 4:11

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

  36. John 14:15

    If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

  37. Luke 6:27–28

    But to those of you who will listen, I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.

  38. John 13:35

    By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.

  39. Psalm 86:15

    But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.

  40. Psalm 91:14–15

    Because he loves Me, I will deliver him; because he knows My name, I will protect him. When he calls out to Me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him.

  41. Proverbs 10:12

    Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.

  42. Romans 13:10

    Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

  43. Ephesians 2:4–7

    But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved! And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages He might display the surpassing riches of His grace, demonstrated by His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

  44. Proverbs 5:18–19

    May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth: A loving doe, a graceful fawn— may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.

  45. Song of Solomon 2:2

    Like a lily among the thorns is my darling among the maidens.

  46. 1 Peter 1:22–23

    Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart. For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

  47. 1 John 4:10

    And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

  48. Mark 12:29–30

    Jesus replied, This is the most important: ‘Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

  49. John 15:12

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

  50. 1 Corinthians 13:1–3

    If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.

  51. Colossians 3:19

    Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.

  52. 1 Peter 3:8

    Finally, all of you, be like-minded and sympathetic, love as brothers, be tenderhearted and humble.

  53. 1 John 3:17

    If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him?

  54. Matthew 22:39

    And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

  55. Galatians 5:13

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

  56. Ephesians 5:28

    In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

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