Scriptures on Love
Note: The Word CHARITY also means LOVE, applies to various scriptural translation.
- “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.” – 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
- “God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.” – 1 John 4:16
- “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” – John 15:13
- “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” – Matthew 22:37
- “Love your neighbor as yourself.” – Matthew 22:39
- “Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.” – Romans 12:9
- “Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.” – 1 Peter 4:8
- “And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.” – Colossians 3:14
- “But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.” – 1 Corinthians 13:13
- “And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.” – Ephesians 5:2
- “Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.” – Romans 12:9
- “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it.” – Ephesians 5:25
- “Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good.” – Romans 12:9
- “Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another.” – Romans 12:10
- “For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead.” – 2 Corinthians 5:14
- “Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.” – Romans 13:10
- “For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.” – 1 John 5:3
- “And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.” – 2 John 1:6
- “And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.” – 1 John 4:16
- “Love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.” – 1 John 4:7
- “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” – John 3:16
- “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.” – John 13:34
- “And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.” – 1 Peter 4:8
- “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.” – 1 Corinthians 13:1
- “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,” – Galatians 5:22
- “Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,” – 1 Corinthians 13:4
- “But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?” – 1 John 3:17
- “And he answered and said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.” – Luke 10:27
- “By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.” – John 13:35
- “And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.” – Galatians 6:9-10