50 biblical love phrases to understand that God is love

Above all, however, they clothe themselves in love, which is the perfect bond.

Colossians 3:14

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It doesn’t mistreat, it doesn’t seek its interests, it doesn’t get angry easily, it doesn’t hold a grudge. Love does not rejoice in injustice, but rejoices in the truth. Everything suffers, everything believes, everything hopes, everything supports.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Not many waters can quench love; rivers can’t carry you downstream. If anyone offered all the riches of his house to acquire love, he would be utterly despised.

Songs 8:7

Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

1 John 4:8

Above all, sincerely love one another, because love forgives many sins.

1 Peter 4:8

Jesus replied, “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 similar to it: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

Matthew 22:37-39

Hatred causes dissension, but love covers all sins.

Proverbs 10:12

Complete my joy by having the same way of thinking, the same love, one spirit and one attitude.

Philippians 2:2

Please sustain me with raisins, invigorate me with apples, for I am sick with love.

Songs 2:5

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

Ephesians 5:25

As the Father loved me, so I loved them; stay in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.

John 15:9-10

This is how God manifested his love among us: he sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

1 John 4:9

So now these three remain: faith, hope and love. The biggest one, however, is love.

1 Corinthians 13:13

This is my prayer: May your love increase more and more in knowledge and in all perception, to discern what is best, that you may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ.

Philippians 1:9-10

Beloved, let us love one another, for love comes from God. He who loves is born of God and knows God.

1 John 4:7

But I say: love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.

Matthew 5:44

Love must be sincere. Hate what is bad; cling to what is good. Dedicate yourselves to one another with brotherly love. Prefer to honor others rather than yourself.

Romans 12:9-10

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

1 John 4:20

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good. His love lasts forever!

Psalms 136:1

So we know the love that God has for us and we trust in that love. God is love. Everyone who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

1 John 4:16

In love there is no fear; on the contrary, perfect love drives out fear, because fear supposes punishment. He who is afraid is not perfected in love.

1 John 4:18

But God demonstrates his love for us: Christ died on our behalf while we were still sinners.

Romans 5:8

Love the Lord, all you his saints! The Lord preserves the faithful, but to the arrogant he gives what they deserve.

Psalms 31:23

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ. Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:38-39

This is the message you have heard from the beginning: that we love one another.

1 John 3:11

For in this is love for God, in obeying his commandments. And his commandments are not heavy.

1 John 5:3

Bear with each other and forgive the grievances you have against each other. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.

Colossians 3:13

We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers. Whoever does not love remains in death.

1 John 3:14

But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them, without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked.

Luke 6:35

In this we know what love is: Jesus Christ gave his life for us and we must lay down our lives for our brothers. If someone has material resources and, seeing his brother in need, does not pity him, how can the love of God remain in him?

1 John 3:16-17

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

1 John 4:10

The many waters could not quench love, nor the rivers drown it, even if someone gave all the goods of love, he would be completely despised.

Songs 8:7

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:2

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, no one separates.

Matthew 19:6

No one has greater love than he who lays down his life for his friends.

John 15:13

Yet God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us, made us alive with Christ when we were still dead in transgressions – by grace you are saved.

Ephesians 2:4-5

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

Galatians 5:22

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

John 3:16

In the same way, husbands should each love his wife as his own body. Whoever loves his wife, loves himself.

Ephesians 5:28

How beautiful you are! How you please me! Oh, love and its delights!

Songs 7:6

Love does not do evil against others. Therefore, love is the fulfillment of the Law.

Romans 13:10

In love there is no fear; on the contrary, perfect love drives out fear, because fear supposes punishment. He who is afraid is not perfected in love.

1 John 4:18

He took me to the banquet hall and his banner over me is love.

Songs 2:4

A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I loved you, you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.

John 13:34-35

The Lord your God is in your midst, mighty to save. He will rejoice over you; with his love he will renew you, he will rejoice over you with shouts of joy.

Zephaniah 3:17