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100 Bible Verses about Love God

John 3:16 ESV / 374 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

1 John 4:16 ESV / 253 helpful votes

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

1 John 3:1 ESV / 239 helpful votes

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 232 helpful votes

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

1 John 4:8 ESV / 216 helpful votes

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

1 John 4:19 ESV / 208 helpful votes

We love because he first loved us.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 186 helpful votes

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 175 helpful votes

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

1 John 4:7 ESV / 172 helpful votes

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

John 15:13 ESV / 172 helpful votes

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 165 helpful votes

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

Deuteronomy 7:9 ESV / 165 helpful votes

Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 163 helpful votes

The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.

Ephesians 2:4-5 ESV / 155 helpful votes

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

Romans 8:37-39 ESV / 154 helpful votes

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Psalm 86:15 ESV / 153 helpful votes

But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 141 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

Romans 8:28 ESV / 132 helpful votes

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 131 helpful votes

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Colossians 3:14 ESV / 130 helpful votes

And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

Romans 13:8 ESV / 126 helpful votes

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 122 helpful votes

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

1 John 4:18 ESV / 121 helpful votes

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

1 Peter 5:6-7 ESV / 119 helpful votes

Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

1 Corinthians 16:14 ESV / 113 helpful votes

Let all that you do be done in love.

Romans 5:5 ESV / 113 helpful votes

And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

1 John 4:7-8 ESV / 112 helpful votes

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Jeremiah 31:3 ESV / 110 helpful votes

The Lord appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.

1 John 4:12 ESV / 109 helpful votes

No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

2 Thessalonians 3:5 ESV / 109 helpful votes

May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.

John 14:21 ESV / 108 helpful votes

Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”

John 14:15 ESV / 108 helpful votes

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

Psalm 136:26 ESV / 106 helpful votes

Give thanks to the God of heaven, for his steadfast love endures forever.

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 104 helpful votes

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 104 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 103 helpful votes

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Psalm 63:3 ESV / 102 helpful votes

Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you.

Romans 12:9 ESV / 101 helpful votes

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

Deuteronomy 6:5 ESV / 100 helpful votes

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

1 John 4:20 ESV / 99 helpful votes

If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

1 John 4:9-11 ESV / 99 helpful votes

In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 96 helpful votes

And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.

Proverbs 3:3-4 ESV / 93 helpful votes

Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man.

Romans 8:38-39 ESV / 92 helpful votes

For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 91 helpful votes

“No one can serve two masters, for 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 God and money.

1 John 4:10 ESV / 88 helpful votes

In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Matthew 22:37-39 ESV / 87 helpful votes

And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Ephesians 5:2 ESV / 86 helpful votes

And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

John 13:34-35 ESV / 86 helpful votes

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

John 15:9-17 ESV / 85 helpful votes

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. ...

Romans 12:10 ESV / 84 helpful votes

Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

John 15:12 ESV / 83 helpful votes

“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

John 14:23 ESV / 82 helpful votes

Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

1 Corinthians 2:9 ESV / 81 helpful votes

But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”—

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 79 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1 Corinthians 13:2 ESV / 79 helpful votes

And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

John 13:34 ESV / 79 helpful votes

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

Song of Solomon 8:6-7 ESV / 77 helpful votes

Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised.

Isaiah 43:4 ESV / 76 helpful votes

Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you, I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life.

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 76 helpful votes

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

1 John 5:3 ESV / 75 helpful votes

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.

Isaiah 54:10 ESV / 73 helpful votes

For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you.

Ephesians 5:25-26 ESV / 72 helpful votes

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,

Ephesians 4:2-3 ESV / 72 helpful votes

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Mark 12:31 ESV / 72 helpful votes

The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Proverbs 8:17 ESV / 72 helpful votes

I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.

1 John 4:9-10 ESV / 70 helpful votes

In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Psalm 143:8 ESV / 65 helpful votes

Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.

Mark 12:29-31 ESV / 64 helpful votes

Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Jude 1:21 ESV / 62 helpful votes

Keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.

Matthew 5:43-48 ESV / 59 helpful votes

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? ...

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 57 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

John 14:23-24 ESV / 57 helpful votes

Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me.

1 John 3:18 ESV / 56 helpful votes

Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

Ephesians 2:4 ESV / 56 helpful votes

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 51 helpful votes

However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

John 15:12-13 ESV / 51 helpful votes

“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 49 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 48 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Ephesians 3:19 ESV / 46 helpful votes

And to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Lamentations 3:22-23 ESV / 46 helpful votes

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

Psalm 36:7 ESV / 46 helpful votes

How precious is your steadfast love, O God! The children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings.

Romans 5:2-5 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

Luke 10:27 ESV / 45 helpful votes

And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”

John 15:10 ESV / 43 helpful votes

If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 42 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 42 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Isaiah 49:15-16 ESV / 42 helpful votes

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.

1 Corinthians 13:4-5 ESV / 41 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

Romans 13:10 ESV / 41 helpful votes

Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Psalm 103:11 ESV / 39 helpful votes

For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;

Psalm 18:1 ESV / 39 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, the servant of the Lord, who addressed the words of this song to the Lord on the day when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love you, O Lord, my strength.

1 Corinthians 13:7 ESV / 37 helpful votes

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Romans 8:35 ESV / 37 helpful votes

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

1 John 4:21 ESV / 36 helpful votes

And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.

Mark 12:30 ESV / 35 helpful votes

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

1 Peter 1:8 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory,

John 15:9-10 ESV / 33 helpful votes

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 33 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Psalm 109:26 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Help me, O Lord my God! Save me according to your steadfast love!

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