Vietnam Evangelical Covenant Church – With permission to use content ideas from Salem Web Network, the Communications Team of Vietnam Evangelical Covenant Church is pleased to share with you a list of key verses arranged by topic from the Bible (Berean Standard Bible).
The Bible says that God is love. All true love in our lives, from family and friends to the church, flows from the love He first showed us. The Bible verses about love below show how great that love is, and how we are called to love God and love others.
You can use these Bible verses about love for reflection, share them at weddings or family gatherings, or write them for the people you love.
29 Bible Verses About Love
1. Mark 12:31
“The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.”
– Mark 12:31 (BSB)
Loving our neighbor as ourselves is the second great commandment, bound up with our love for God.
2. Luke 6:31
“Do to others as you would have them do to you.”
– Luke 6:31 (BSB)
The Golden Rule is simple but not easy: treat others the way you want to be treated.
3. Luke 6:35
“But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.”
– Luke 6:35 (BSB)
The love God teaches goes far beyond the ordinary: loving even enemies and doing good without expecting anything back.
4. John 13:34–35
“A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”
– John 13:34–35 (BSB)
Jesus gave a new commandment: love one another as He has loved us. That is the sign by which people recognize His disciples.
5. Romans 12:9
“Love must be sincere. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good.”
– Romans 12:9 (BSB)
True love must be sincere, not fake, and go together with hatred of evil.
6. Romans 13:10
“Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the Law.”
– Romans 13:10 (BSB)
Those who love do no harm to their neighbor. That is why love fulfills the law.
7. 1 Corinthians 13:4–8
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs. Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed.”
– 1 Corinthians 13:4–8 (BSB)
The most famous passage on love shows that love is daily action: patient, kind, not envious, not proud.
8. 1 Corinthians 13:13
“And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.”
– 1 Corinthians 13:13 (BSB)
Of the three things that remain forever, faith, hope and love, love is the greatest.
9. Ephesians 4:2
“with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love.”
– Ephesians 4:2 (BSB)
Living together in a family or a church requires humility, gentleness and patience in love.
10. 1 Peter 4:8
“Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.”
– 1 Peter 4:8 (BSB)
Deep love helps us overlook one another’s faults instead of keeping score.
11. 1 John 4:7
“Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.”
– 1 John 4:7 (BSB)
Love comes from God. Those who truly love are those who know Him.
12. 1 John 4:18–19
“There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been perfected in love. We love because He first loved us.”
– 1 John 4:18–19 (BSB)
Perfect love drives out fear. We love because God first loved us.
13. John 15:13
“Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.”
– John 15:13 (BSB)
There is no greater love than the love Jesus showed by laying down His life for us.
14. Ephesians 5:25
“Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her.”
– Ephesians 5:25 (BSB)
Husbands are called to love their wives as Christ loves the church, with a sacrificial love.
15. Ephesians 5:33
“Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.”
– Ephesians 5:33 (BSB)
Marriage is built on love and respect from both sides.
16. Colossians 3:14
“And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity.”
– Colossians 3:14 (BSB)
Love is the bond that ties all the other virtues together.
17. Proverbs 10:12
“Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.”
– Proverbs 10:12 (BSB)
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers over wrongs.
18. Proverbs 17:17
“A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.”
– Proverbs 17:17 (BSB)
True love is tested in times of trouble.
19. 1 John 3:16–18
“By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word and speech, but in action and truth.”
– 1 John 3:16–18 (BSB)
Love is not only in words, but in concrete actions, especially toward those in need.
20. 1 John 4:8
“Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.”
– 1 John 4:8 (BSB)
God is love. This is one of the shortest yet deepest statements about His nature.
21. John 3:16
“For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
– John 3:16 (BSB)
God’s love is shown most clearly in giving His only Son for the world.
22. Psalm 18:1
“I love You, O LORD, my strength.”
– Psalm 18:1 (BSB)
Our love for God is a response to the One who is our strength.
23. Romans 5:8
“But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
– Romans 5:8 (BSB)
God loves us not because we are good, but even while we were still sinners.
24. Deuteronomy 10:12
“And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.”
– Deuteronomy 10:12 (BSB)
Loving God always goes together with fearing Him and walking in His ways.
25. Deuteronomy 11:13–14
“So if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul, then I will send rain on your land in its season, the autumn and spring rains, and you will gather your grain, new wine, and oil.”
– Deuteronomy 11:13–14 (BSB)
Wholeheartedly loving and serving God is the natural response of those who have received His blessings.
26. Song of Songs 8:6
“Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all.”
– Song of Songs 8:6 (BSB)
The Song of Songs describes married love as strong as death, a committed and faithful love.
27. Matthew 6:24
“No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”
– Matthew 6:24 (BSB)
No one can love two masters at once. Our love for God must stand above money.
28. Matthew 22:37–39
“Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’””
– Matthew 22:37–39 (BSB)
Jesus summed up the whole law in two commands: love God with all your heart and love your neighbor as yourself.
29. 1 Corinthians 16:14
“Do everything in love.”
– 1 Corinthians 16:14 (BSB)
Short advice for all of life: do everything in love.
Living in God’s Love
These Bible verses about love remind us that love begins with God. We cannot love others consistently until we have experienced His love for us through Jesus. Once we have received that love, we are called to pass it on to our families, our church and even people who are hard to love.
Read 1 Corinthians 13:4–8 slowly and replace the word “love” with your own name. The places that are hardest to read are probably where God wants to keep working in you.
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Father, thank You for loving us first, even while we were still sinners. Pour Your love into our hearts so that we may love You with all our hearts and love our neighbors as ourselves. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
Compiled by: Ly Nguyễn
With permission from: Salem Web Network
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