Scriptures about God’s love for people, love for God, and people’s love for one another.
21 Scriptures · Father’s Blessing Bible
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
1 Corinthians 13:4–7
4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
1 John 4:7–8
7 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Romans 5:8
But God demonstrates His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Matthew 22:37–39
37 Jesus said to him: Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind: 38 this is the first and greatest commandment; 39 and the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself;
John 13:34–35
34 I give you a new commandment: love one another; just as I have loved you, so you also love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.
John 15:13
There is no greater love than this: that someone should lay down his life for his friends.
1 John 4:10–11
10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
1 John 3:16
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.
1 John 4:16
And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever remains in love remains in God, and God in him.
1 John 4:18–19
18 There is no fear in love; rather, perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. 19 We love Him because He first loved us.
Romans 8:38–39
38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
1 Corinthians 13:13
And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
Ephesians 3:17–19
17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, and that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend what is the breadth and length and depth and height, 19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Colossians 3:14
And above all these, put on love, which is the bond of perfection.
1 Peter 4:8
Above all, maintain fervent love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins.
Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins.
Romans 13:10
Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
Song of Solomon 8:6–7
6 Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is as strong as death, jealousy as cruel as the grave; its flames are flames of fire, a most vehement flame. 7 Many waters cannot quench love, nor can the rivers drown it. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly despised.
Romans 12:9–10
9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good. 10 Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another;
Ephesians 5:2
And walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as an offering and sacrifice to God, a fragrant aroma.
