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Bible Verses About God's Love

Verses on God's love for us — unconditional, eternal, costly love.

28 verses · curated by hand

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  1. Song of Solomon 7:6

    “How beautiful and how pleasant you are, love, for delights!”

  2. Song of Solomon 7:9

    “Your mouth like the best wine, that goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding through the lips of those who are asleep.”

  3. Song of Solomon 7:10

    “I am my beloved’s. His desire is toward me.”

  4. Song of Solomon 7:11

    “Come, my beloved, let us go out into the field. Let us lodge in the villages.”

  5. Song of Solomon 7:12

    “Let’s go early up to the vineyards. Let’s see whether the vine has budded, its blossom is open, and the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love.”

  6. Song of Solomon 7:13

    “The mandrakes produce fragrance. At our doors are all kinds of precious fruits, new and old, which I have stored up for you, my beloved.”

  7. Song of Solomon 8:4

    “I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.”

  8. Song of Solomon 8:5

    “Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I aroused you. There your mother conceived you. There she was in labor and bore you.”

  9. Song of Solomon 8:6

    “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.”

  10. Song of Solomon 8:7

    “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.”

  11. Song of Solomon 8:14

    “Come away, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices!”

  12. Isaiah 1:23

    “Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don’t judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.”

  13. Isaiah 5:1

    “Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.”

  14. Isaiah 38:17

    “Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.”

  15. Isaiah 43:4

    “Since you have been precious and honored in my sight, and I have loved you; therefore I will give people in your place, and nations instead of your life.”

  16. Isaiah 48:14

    ““Assemble yourselves, all of you, and hear; who among them has declared these things? He whom Yahweh loves will do what he likes to Babylon, and his arm will be against the Chaldeans.”

  17. Isaiah 56:6

    “Also the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh, to serve him, and to love Yahweh’s name, to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and holds fast my covenant;”

  18. Isaiah 57:8

    “You have set up your memorial behind the doors and the posts; for you have exposed yourself to someone besides me, and have gone up; you have enlarged your bed, and made you a covenant with them. You loved what you saw on their bed.”

  19. Isaiah 61:8

    ““For I, Yahweh, love justice. I hate robbery and iniquity. I will give them their reward in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.”

  20. Isaiah 63:9

    “In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.”

Frequently asked

Questions about god's love in the Bible

How does God show his love?
Romans 5:8 — "God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." 1 John 4:9-10 names the cross as the central proof of God's love.
Is God's love unconditional?
Yes — Romans 5:8 explicitly says God loves while we are still sinners, before any change in us. The conditional language in Scripture is about experiencing fellowship, not about the love itself being earned.
Which Bible verse best shows God's love?
John 3:16, Romans 5:8, 1 John 4:8, and 1 John 4:19 are the four most-cited verses on God's love. All four are curated on this page with original commentary.