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Bible Verses About Love

God's love, our love for Him, and love for one another.

45 verses · curated by hand

From the wider Bible

More verses about love in Scripture

562 passages mentioning “love” across WEB & KJV — beyond the curated set above.

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  1. Genesis 22:2

    “He said, “Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, even Isaac, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.””

  2. Genesis 24:67

    “Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.”

  3. Genesis 25:28

    “Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob.”

  4. Genesis 27:4

    “Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die.””

  5. Genesis 27:9

    “Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good young goats. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.”

  6. Genesis 27:14

    “He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.”

  7. Genesis 29:18

    “Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.””

  8. Genesis 29:20

    “Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.”

  9. Genesis 29:30

    “He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.”

  10. Genesis 29:32

    “Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me.””

  11. Genesis 34:3

    “His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.”

  12. Genesis 37:3

    “Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.”

  13. Genesis 37:4

    “His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.”

  14. Genesis 44:20

    “We said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.’”

  15. Exodus 20:6

    “and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.”

  16. Exodus 21:5

    “But if the servant shall plainly say, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;’”

  17. Leviticus 11:3

    “Whatever parts the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and chews the cud among the animals, that you may eat.”

  18. Leviticus 11:7

    “The pig, because he has a split hoof, and is cloven-footed, but doesn’t chew the cud, he is unclean to you.”

  19. Leviticus 11:26

    ““‘Every animal which parts the hoof, and is not cloven-footed, nor chews the cud, is unclean to you. Everyone who touches them shall be unclean.”

  20. Leviticus 19:34

    “The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.”

Frequently asked

Questions about love in the Bible

What does the Bible say about love?
The Bible defines love (Greek: agape) as a sustained way of acting toward others — patient, kind, not envious or proud (1 Corinthians 13:4). Its source is God himself: "God is love" (1 John 4:8). Believers are called to love because they were first loved (1 John 4:19).
What is the most famous Bible verse about love?
John 3:16 — "For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son…" — is the most widely quoted Bible verse on love, summarising the whole arc of the gospel in a single sentence.
Where in the Bible does it describe true love?
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 is the New Testament's clearest description of love's working parts: patient, kind, not envious, not proud, not easily angered, keeping no record of wrongs.