Verses on God’s love for people, and on how people are asked to love one another. Read them here, or swipe through them one at a time.
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.
1 Corinthians 13:4–7
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
What it meansWe love because He first loved us.
1 John 4:19
Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
1 John 4:7–8
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:38–39
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:13
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
And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:13
But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:8
Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
1 Peter 4:8
And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
1 John 4:16
The LORD your God is among you; He is mighty to save. He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you with His love; He will rejoice over you with singing.”
Zephaniah 3:17
The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.
Jeremiah 31:3
And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity.
Colossians 3:14
Do everything in love.
1 Corinthians 16:14
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
Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.
1 John 3:18
But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.
Psalm 86:15
Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.
Proverbs 10:12
Because Your loving devotion is better than life, my lips will glorify You.
Psalm 63:3