Bible verses about love

Related words: love, charity, beloved, lovingkindness. Passages below are from the King James Bible. Open any verse in the KJV reader or browse all translations.

  1. 1 John 4:7

    Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

  2. Jeremiah 31:3

    The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, [saying], Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

  3. 1 John 4:11

    Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

  4. Psalms 119:159

    Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.

  5. Song of Solomon 5:2

    I sleep, but my heart waketh: [it is] the voice of my beloved that knocketh, [saying], Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, [and] my locks with the drops of the night.

  6. Hosea 3:1

    Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of [her] friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.

  7. Song of Solomon 2:10

    My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

  8. Song of Solomon 5:8

    I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I [am] sick of love.

  9. James 2:5

    Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?

  10. Song of Solomon 5:16

    His mouth [is] most sweet: yea, he [is] altogether lovely. This [is] my beloved, and this [is] my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

  11. Luke 3:22

    And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.

  12. 1 Corinthians 13:4

    Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

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