Love Bible Scriptures: Exploring the Central Theme of Love in the Bible
What does the Bible Say About Love?
35 Favorite Love Bible Scriptures
Psalm 86:5Â – You, Lord, are forgiving and good, abounding in love to all who call to you.Â
Psalm 143:8Â – 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.Â
Proverbs 3:3-4Â – Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man.Â
Proverbs 10:12Â – Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs.Â
Proverbs 17:17Â – A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.Â
Ecclesiastes 4:12Â – Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
Song of Songs 3:4Â – Scarcely had I passed them when I found the one my heart loves. I held him and would not let him go till I had brought him to my mother’s house, to the room of the one who conceived me.
Song of Songs 6:3Â – I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine; he browses among the lilies.
Song of Songs 8:6-7 – 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 sweep it away. If one were to give all the wealth of one’s house for love, it would be utterly scorned.
Isaiah 43:4 – Since you are precious and honored in my sight, and because I love you, I will give people in exchange for you, nations in exchange for your life.
Isaiah 49:15-16 – “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.
Lamentations 3:22Â – Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.
Matthew 22:37Â – Jesus replied: ” ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
Mark 10:6Â – “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’
Mark 10:7Â – ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,
Mark 10:8Â – and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh.
Mark 10:9Â – Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
Isaiah 43:4 – Since you are precious and honored in my sight, and because I love you, I will give people in exchange for you, nations in exchange for your life.
Isaiah 49:15-16 – “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.
Lamentations 3:22 – Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.
Matthew 22:37 – Jesus replied: ” ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
Mark 10:6 – “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’
Mark 10:7 – ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,
Mark 10:8 – and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh.
Mark 10:9 – Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
Mark 12:29 – “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
Mark 12:30 – Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’
Mark 12:31 – The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”
John 3:16 – 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 13:34 – “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
John 15:12 – My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
John 15:13 – Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
1 Corinthians 16:14Â – Do everything in love.Â
Ephesians 3:16Â – I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being,Â
Ephesians 3:17Â – so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love,Â
Ephesians 4:2Â – Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.Â
Ephesians 4:3Â – Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.Â
Ephesians 4:32Â – Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.Â
Ephesians 5:2Â – and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.Â
Ephesians 5:25Â – Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for herÂ
Ephesians 5:26Â – to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,Â
Colossians 3:14Â – And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.Â
2 Thessalonians 3:5Â – May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance.Â
2 Timothy 1:7Â – For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.Â
1 Peter 3:8Â – Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble.Â