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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

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More verses about love in Scripture

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

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  1. Colossians 1:7

    “even as you learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on our behalf,”

  2. Colossians 1:8

    “who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.”

  3. Colossians 1:13

    “who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;”

  4. Colossians 2:2

    “that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,”

  5. Colossians 3:19

    “Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.”

  6. Colossians 4:7

    “All my affairs will be made known to you by Tychicus, the beloved brother, faithful servant, and fellow bondservant in the Lord.”

  7. Colossians 4:9

    “together with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will make known to you everything that is going on here.”

  8. Colossians 4:14

    “Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas greet you.”

  9. 1 Thessalonians 1:3

    “remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.”

  10. 1 Thessalonians 1:4

    “We know, brothers loved by God, that you are chosen,”

  11. 1 Thessalonians 3:6

    “But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you;”

  12. 1 Thessalonians 3:12

    “and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,”

  13. 1 Thessalonians 4:9

    “But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,”

  14. 1 Thessalonians 5:8

    “But let us, since we belong to the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation.”

  15. 1 Thessalonians 5:13

    “and to respect and honor them in love for their work’s sake. Be at peace among yourselves.”

  16. 2 Thessalonians 1:3

    “We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you towards one another abounds;”

  17. 2 Thessalonians 2:10

    “and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.”

  18. 2 Thessalonians 2:13

    “But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth;”

  19. 2 Thessalonians 2:16

    “Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,”

  20. 2 Thessalonians 3:5

    “May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love, and into the perseverance of Christ.”

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.