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55+ Bible Verses About Love that Inspire a Faithful & Fulfilling Life or Marriage

Read through these Bible verses about love and reflect on how the love of God is reflected in your life and relationships.

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Jake Ryan

God‘s love is shown to all. By reading the Bible, reflecting on scripture, and keeping faith in Him, we may learn how to better build a relationship with Him with true agape love and in turn, build better relationships with those around us. Take the time to read over a verse below or reflect on your favorite bible verse about love. Doing so may allow you to discover how you are reflecting God‘s love into the world through your own love of yourself, the romantic love you show to a partner, a father‘s love to his children, or brotherly love shown to a friend or other loved one.

Bible Verses About Love

  1. Let all that you do be done in love. 1 Corinthians 16:14
  2. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
  3. 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
  4. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16
  5. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. Colossians 3:14
  6. So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13
  7. Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs. Proverbs 10:12
  8. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 1 John 4:8
  9. Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. Romans 12:9
  10. We love because he first loved us. 1 John 4:19
  11. As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. John 15:9-10
  12. But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness. Psalms 86:15
  13. God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8
  14. 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. Ephesians 2:4-5
  15. 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
  16. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this [is] the first commandment. Mark 12:30
  17. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 1 John 4:10
  18. Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away. If one were to give all the wealth of his house for love, it would be utterly scorned. Song of Solomon 8:6-7
  19. If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. 1 Corinthians 13:1-3
  20. Many claim to have unfailing love, but a faithful person who can find? The righteous lead blameless lives; blessed are their children after them. Proverbs 20:6-7
  21. And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. Romans 5:5
  22. Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life. Psalm 143:8
  23. For great is your love, reaching to the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the skies. Psalm 57:10
  24. Do not withhold your mercy from me, Lord; may your love and faithfulness always protect me. Psalm 40:11
  25. 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 Deuteronomy 7:9
  26. You, O Lord, will not withhold Your compassion from me; Your lovingkindness and Your truth will continually preserve me. Psalm 40:11
  27. By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. 1 John 4:9

Bible Verses About Loving Thy Neighbor

These 10 Bible verses about showing brotherly love to your friends and family help to remind us of the scripture surrounding Christ Jesus. Our heavenly father allowed Jesus to lay down his life for us and our sins, and in return, God’s word is to have us spread our true love and understanding to our neighbors.

  1. Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. 1 Peter 4:8
  2. A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. Proverbs 17:17
  3. My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. John 15:12-13
  4. Do to others as you would have them do to you. Luke 6:31
  5. “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘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.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:29-31
  6. Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. Romans 13:10
  7. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 1 John 4:11
  8. And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister. 1 John 4:21
  9. This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. 1 John 3:16-18
  10. Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” Matthew 22:37-40

Bible Verses About Love in Marriage

  1. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Ephesians 4:2
  2. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. Ephesians 5:25
  3. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. Ephesians 5:33
  4. I thank my God every time I think of you. Philippians 1:3
  5. Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. Genesis 2:24
  6. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate. Mark 10:9
  7. Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. Romans 13:8
  8. There are three things that amaze me—no, four things that I don’t understand: how an eagle glides through the sky, how a snake slithers on a rock, how a ship navigates the ocean, how a man loves a woman. Proverbs 30:18-19
  9. Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor:If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? Ecclesiastes 4:9
  10. He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favor from the LORD. Proverbs 18:22
  11. I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine. Song of Solomon 8:3
  12. I found the one my heart loves. Song of Solomon 3:4
  13. Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh. Genesis 2:22-24
  14. May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth. A loving doe, a graceful deer— may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be intoxicated with her love. Proverbs 5:18-19
  15. A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value. She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life. Proverbs 31:10-12
  16. So she became his wife, and he loved her. Genesis 24:64
  17. Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. Proverbs 3:3
  18. Through love serve one another. Galatians 5:13
  19. In the same way, you husbands must give honor to your wives. Treat your wife with understanding as you live together. She may be weaker than you are, but she is your equal partner in God’s gift of new life. Treat her as you should so your prayers will not be hindered. 1 Peter 3:7
  20. Love yesterday, today and forever. Jeremiah 31:3
  21. So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate. Matthew 19:6
  22. I hold you in my heart, for we have shared together God’s blessings. Philippians 1:7