Bible verses about love
Love is named again and again, from the commandments of the Law to the letters of John.
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4Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, 5doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; 6doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
7Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
34A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another. 35By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Old Testament
“‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
Psalms & Wisdom
Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.
Many waters can’t quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned.
Gospels
37Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38This is the first and great commandment. 39A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
New Testament
But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
38For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from God’s love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
We love him, because he first loved us.
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