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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. Jeremiah 3:1

    ““They say, ‘If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man’s, should he return to her again?’ Wouldn’t that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me,” says Yahweh.”

  2. Jeremiah 4:30

    “You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck yourself with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with makeup, you make yourself beautiful in vain. Your lovers despise you. They seek your life.”

  3. Jeremiah 5:31

    “The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?”

  4. Jeremiah 8:2

    “and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the army of the sky, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried, they shall be for dung on the surface of the earth.”

  5. Jeremiah 11:15

    “What has my beloved to do in my house, since she has worked lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? When you do evil, then you rejoice.””

  6. Jeremiah 12:7

    ““I have forsaken my house. I have cast off my heritage. I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.”

  7. Jeremiah 14:10

    “Yahweh says to this people, “Even so they have loved to wander. They have not restrained their feet. Therefore Yahweh does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish them for their sins.””

  8. Jeremiah 22:20

    ““Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from Abarim; for all your lovers are destroyed.”

  9. Jeremiah 22:22

    “The wind shall feed all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity. Surely then you will be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness.”

  10. Jeremiah 30:14

    “All your lovers have forgotten you. They don’t seek you: for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased.”

  11. Jeremiah 31:3

    “Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness.”

  12. Lamentations 1:2

    “She weeps bitterly in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has no one to comfort her: All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they have become her enemies.”

  13. Lamentations 1:19

    ““I called for my lovers, but they deceived me. My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city, while they sought food for themselves to refresh their souls.”

  14. Ezekiel 16:8

    ““‘“Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you,” says the Lord Yahweh, “and you became mine.”

  15. Ezekiel 16:33

    “People give gifts to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to you on every side for your prostitution.”

  16. Ezekiel 16:36

    “‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitution with your lovers; and because of all the idols of your abominations, and for the blood of your children, that you gave to them;”

  17. Ezekiel 16:37

    “therefore see, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those who you have loved, with all those who you have hated; I will even gather them against you on every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.”

  18. Ezekiel 23:5

    ““Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine. She doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors,”

  19. Ezekiel 23:9

    ““Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, on whom she doted.”

  20. Ezekiel 23:11

    ““Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lusting than she, and in her prostitution which was more depraved than the prostitution of her sister.”

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.