If there is a perfect source of information about love and how to love, it is the Bible! Scripture tells us that God is love and that He loved the world so much that He sent His Son to save us from death! Furthermore, the greatest commandments given by Christ are to love God and our neighbor. The entire message of the Gospel centers on the act of love, Jesus giving his life on earth for ours in heaven.
You’ve found a perfect resource for what the Scriptures tell us about love. We’ve compiled our favorite Bible verses about love as it relates to marriage, mutual love, and God’s love for us.
In 1 Corinthians, Scripture describes the attributes of love: “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 in evil, but rejoices in the truth.”
May the following 30 Bible quotes about love rejuvenate your heart with gratitude and joy!
Most Popular Bible Verses About Love
For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
We know that all things work together for good to those who love God and are called according to His purpose.
Love is patient, love is kind. He does not envy, he does not boast, he is not proud. He does not dishonor others, he is not selfish, he is not easily angered, he keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not rejoice in evil but rejoices in the truth. He 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 pacified; where there is knowledge, it will disappear.
So now faith, hope and love remain, these three; but the greatest of them is love.
And above all, they put on love, which binds everything in perfect harmony.
Above all, continue to love yourself sincerely, because love covers a multitude of sins.
There is no greater love than that of someone who lays down his life for his friends.
neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Bible verses about God’s love
See what great love the Father has lavished on us, so that we may be called children of God! And that’s what we are!
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear is punishment, and he who fears has not been perfected in love. We love because he first loved us.
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and he who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
The Lord once appeared to us saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love, I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.
For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
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 transgressions: by grace you have been saved.
Bible Verses About Loving One Another
There is no greater love than that of someone who lays down his life for his friends.
A new commandment I give you: love one another: as I have loved you, so also love one another.
With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bear with one another in love.
Let the love be authentic. Hate what is evil; hold on to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Surpass each other by showing honor.
A friend loves at all times and a brother is born for adversity.
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.
Bible verses about love in marriage
Therefore a man will leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for her
But let each of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife be careful to respect her husband.
Therefore a man will leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is proper in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and don’t be hard on them.
Christian love quotes
“Human love is directed towards the other for itself, spiritual love loves him for the love of Christ. This is why human love seeks direct contact with the other; it loves him not as a free person but as a person whom he binds to himself. It wants to win, to capture by all means; it uses force. It desires to be irresistible, to govern.” – Dietrich Bonhöffer
“Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity. Love as if there is no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.” -Max Lucado
“God proved his love on the cross. When Christ hung, bled and died, it was God saying to the world, ‘I love you.'” – Billy Graham
“To love someone is to see them as God intended.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“God is love. He didn’t need us. But he wanted us. And that’s the most amazing thing.” – Rick Warren
“There is no chasm so deep that the love of God is not even deeper.” -Corrie Ten Boom
Originally published on Friday May 15, 2026.
