Love is the perfect bond, it is the most beautiful and powerful relationship we can have with God and with other people. By loving, we choose to impact those around us in a special way. Love transforms lives! When we love, we imitate God and give something very valuable.
Here you will find a collection of biblical quotes on the theme of love for you to meditate on and share with your friends and family. It is a compilation of verses on love in general, love in marriage, love of God, love of God and love of enemies.
As a divine flame it is the burning fire of love. Neither the many waters can quench it, nor the rivers can extinguish it.
(Song 8:6b-7a)
Engrave me like a seal on your heart; take me as a mark on your arm. Strong is love, like death, and tenacious passion, like the grave.
(Song 8:6a)
Love is patient, love is kind. Love is not envious or boastful or proud. He doesn’t behave rudely, he isn’t selfish, he doesn’t get angry easily, he doesn’t hold a grudge.
(1 Corinthians 13:4-5)
Two are better than one, because they get more fruit for their effort. If one falls down, help him up. Woe to the one who falls and has no one to pick him up!
(Ecclesiastes 4:9-10)
I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine…
(Song 6:3a)
How delicious is your love, my sister and bride! More pleasant than wine is your love, and more than all spice the fragrance of your perfume!
(Song 4:10)
Only one can be beat, but two can resist. The three-strand rope is not easily broken!
(Ecclesiastes 4:12)
In love there is no fear, but perfect love casts out fear. He who fears awaits punishment, so he has not been perfected in love.
(1 John 4:17b-18)
You captivated my heart, my sister and girlfriend, with a look in your eyes; with a turn of your necklace you captivated my heart.
(Song 4:9)
Ah, if you kissed me with the kisses of your mouth… truly pleasant is your love, more than wine!
(Song 1:2)
Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. He excuses everything, believes everything, expects everything, supports everything.
(1 Corinthians 13:6-7)
Love never fades…
(1 Corinthians 13:8)
Now, then, these three virtues remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
(1 Corinthians 13:13)
Hate is a reason for dissension, but love covers all faults.
(Proverbs 10:12)
He who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
(1 John 4:8)
Dear brothers, let us love one another, because love comes from God, and everyone who loves has been born from him and knows him.
(1 John 4:7)
God is love: Bible study of 1 John 4:7-9
And this is my commandment: that you love one another, as I have loved you.
(John 15:12)
… always humble and kind, patient, tolerant with each other in love. Strive to maintain the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.
(Ephesians 4:2-3)
This is what love is: that we put into practice its commandments. And this is the commandment: live in this love, just as you have heard from the beginning.
(2 John 1:6)
Just as the Lord forgave you, forgive you too. Above all, clothe yourselves in love, which is the perfect bond.
(Colossians 3:13b-14)
And we have come to know and believe that God loves us. God is love. He who remains in love remains in God, and God in him.
(1 John 4:16)
If I speak in human and angelic tongues, but do not have love, I am nothing more than a metal that resounds or a cymbal that makes noise.
(1 Corinthians 13:1)
See what great love the Father has given us, that we be called children of God! And we are! The world does not know us, precisely because it did not know him.
(1 John 3:1)
Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you. Stay in my love.
(John 15:9)
Give thanks to the God of heaven! Her great love of him endures forever!
(Psalm 136:26)
The great love of the Lord never ends, and his compassion is never exhausted. Every morning his goodness is renewed; Very great is his fidelity!
(Lamentations 3:22-23)
In response the man quoted: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your being, with all your strength and with all your mind”, and: “Love your neighbor as yourself”.
(Luke 10:27)
love in marriage
Do not send any newly married man to war, nor impose any other duty on him. He will have a whole year off to tend to his house and make the woman he took as his wife happy.
(Deuteronomy 24:5)
Have you not read, replied Jesus, that in the beginning the Creator “made them male and female,” and said, “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall come to be one body. So it’s not two anymore, it’s just one. Therefore, what God has united, let not man separate.
(Matthew 19:4-6)
Can two walk together without first agreeing?
(Amos 3:3)
Everyone esteem marriage and marital fidelity, for God will judge adulterers and all who commit sexual immorality.
(Hebrews 13:4)
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and don’t be hard on them.
(Colossians 3:18-19)
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.
(Ephesians 5:25)
Enjoy life with the woman you love every day of the meaningless life that God has given you in this world.
(Ecclesiastes 9:9a)
In the same way, you husbands, be understanding in your conjugal life, each one treating your wife with respect, since as a woman she is more delicate, and both are heirs to the pleasant gift of life. Thus nothing will hinder your prayers.
(1 Peter 3:7)
That is why the man leaves his father and his mother, and joins his wife, and the two merge into one being.
(Genesis 2:24)
Likewise, the husband must love his wife as his own body. He who loves his wife loves himself, for no one has ever hated his own body; on the contrary, he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church.
(Ephesians 5:28-29)
“… and the two will become one body.” So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore, what God has joined together, let not man put asunder.
(Mark 10:8-9)
15 Bible verses for marriages
God’s love
For God loved the world so much that he gave his only begotten Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but have eternal life.
(John 3:16)
In this we know what love is: in that Jesus Christ gave his life for us. So we too must lay down our lives for our brothers.
(1 John 3:16)
But God demonstrates his love for us in this: that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
(Romans 5:8)
I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. What I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave his life for me.
(Galatians 2:20)
A long time ago the Lord appeared to me and said: I have loved you with an everlasting love; That’s why I follow you faithfully…
(Jeremiah 31:3)
Acknowledge, therefore, that the Lord your God is the true God, the faithful God, who keeps his covenant generation after generation, and shows his faithful love to those who love him and obey his commandments.
(Deuteronomy 7:9)
But you, Lord, are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, and great in love and truth.
(Psalm 86:15)
Humble yourselves, then, under the mighty hand of God, so that he may exalt you in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him, because he cares for you.
(1 Peter 5:6-7)
For the Lord your God is in your midst as a victorious warrior. He will delight in you with joy, he will renew you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing…
(Zephaniah 3:17)
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither what is present nor what is to come, nor powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love that God has manifested us in Christ Jesus our Lord.
(Romans 8:38-39)
Yet in all this we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
(Romans 8:37)
The Lord does not take long to fulfill his promise, as some understand delay. Rather, he is patient with you, because he does not want anyone to perish, but that everyone should repent.
(2 Peter 3:9)
The Lord loves those who hate evil; he protects the lives of the faithful from him, and delivers them from the hands of the wicked.
(Psalm 97:10)
Verses about the love of God that will touch your heart
love in general
Do everything with love.
(1 Corinthians 16:14)
Love must be sincere. Hate evil; hold on to the good.
(Romans 12:9)
The second is: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” There is no other commandment more important than these.
(Mark 12:31)
Love does no harm to others. So love is the fulfillment of the law.
(Romans 13:10)
…and lead a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
(Ephesians 5:2)
May they receive mercy, peace and love in abundance.
(Jude 1:2)
Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers a multitude of sins.
(1 Peter 4:8)
And we have come to know and believe that God loves us. God is love. He who remains in love remains in God, and God in him.
(1 John 4:16)
Treat others the way you want them to treat you.
(Luke 6:31)
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the father also loves his children.
(1 John 5:1)
Thus, when we love God and keep his commandments, we know that we love the children of God. This is the love of God: that we obey his commandments. And these are not difficult to fulfill…
(1 John 5:2-3)
Therefore, as God’s chosen ones, saints and loved ones, clothe yourselves with tender affection and goodness, humility, kindness and patience, so that you bear with one another and forgive each other if anyone has a complaint against another.
(Colossians 3:12-13a)
Rather, by living the truth in love, we will grow to be in all things like the one who is the head, that is, Christ.
(Ephesians 4:15)
But God, who is rich in mercy, out of his great love for us, made us alive with Christ, even when we were dead in sins. By grace you have been saved!
(Ephesians 2:4-5)
See what the Bible says about true love
the love of god
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
(Deuteronomy 6:5)
And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you? Simply that you fear him and walk in all his ways, that you love him and serve him with all your heart and with all your soul…
(Deuteronomy 10:12)
We love because he first loved us.
(1 John 4:19)
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength.
(Mark 12:30)
So do all you can to love the Lord your God.
(Joshua 23:11)
Love the Lord your God and always comply with his ordinances, precepts, rules and commandments.
(Deuteronomy 11:1)
Love the Lord, all his faithful; he protects the trustworthy, but gives the proud their due.
(Psalm 31:23)
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