What Does the Bible Say About Love?

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

The ultimate proof of God's love — the cross.

For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

God's love is unconditional and unbreakable — nothing can remove it.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud, doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

The full anatomy of love — a mirror to hold up to ourselves.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.

Love is the Church's greatest witness — more powerful than any argument.

Jesus said to him, 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the first and great commandment. A second likewise is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'

The entire law summarized in two love commands.

We love him, because he first loved us.

Our love is always a response — God's love is always the origin.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

God's love does not wait for worthiness — it initiates toward the undeserving.

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth, and to know Christ's love which surpasses knowledge.

God's love has four dimensions — and all of them exceed our comprehension.

Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

God sings over His people — love expressed as song.

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Love defined by sacrifice — and called to be our pattern toward others.

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

Jesus defines the pinnacle of love — and then demonstrates it the next day.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

Love is the first and foundational fruit — all others flow from it.

Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever.

God's covenant love (hesed) is the theme of the entire psalm — repeated 26 times.

Love doesn't harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

Love does not just keep the law — it fulfills the purpose behind it.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

Love is the ultimate community-builder — it overlooks offenses.

Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, 'Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness.'

God's love is everlasting — it had no beginning and will have no end.

Set me as a seal on your heart... for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as hard as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh. Many waters can't quench love, neither can floods drown it.

Love is fierce, consuming, unstoppable — a flame of God Himself.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

Love outlasts even faith and hope — it is the eternal quality.

By this God's love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

God's love is not sentiment — it is action. He sent His Son.

He answered, 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.'

Total love — every faculty of our being given to God and neighbor.