Bible Verses About Love

"Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,"

Love described as a series of choices and actions — not primarily a feeling.

"bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."

Love that bears, believes, hopes, and endures all things.

"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."

The most quoted verse in the Bible — God's love as the engine of the whole gospel.

"He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love."

God is love — the most compact theological statement in scripture.

"For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,"

Nothing can separate from God's love — the scope of it.

"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another."

Love one another as I have loved you — the mark that should be recognisable.

"We love him, because he first loved us."

We love because he first loved — the order matters.

"Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’"

Love God with everything — the greatest commandment.

"A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’"

Love your neighbour as yourself — the second, inseparable from the first.

"But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."

Love demonstrated while we were still sinners — timing is the point.

"Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh."

Love stronger than death — the weight of that claim.

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

A friend who loves at all times — love as constancy.

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

Love covering a multitude of sins — in both directions.

"Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;"

Love as sacrifice, not transaction — the husband's call.

"Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing."

God rejoicing over you with singing — an image of delight.