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Bible verses about love

Love is the Bible's center of gravity: who God is, what he has done, and the one debt believers owe everyone. These are the passages the church returns to first.

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The most famous portrait of love ever written

“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. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.”1 Corinthians 13:4-8 · World English Bible

The verse the whole gospel fits inside

“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.”John 3:16 · World English Bible

Why love is the family resemblance

“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.”1 John 4:7-8 · World English Bible

The love nothing can separate you from

“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 God’s love, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”Romans 8:38-39 · World English Bible

Love measured at the cross

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”John 15:12-13 · World English Bible

Love that casts out fear

“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love. We love him, because he first loved us.”1 John 4:18-19 · World English Bible

Love wide, long, high, and deep

“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, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.”Ephesians 3:17-19 · World English Bible

The God who rejoices over you with singing

“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.”Zephaniah 3:17 · World English Bible

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