20 Bible Verses About Love (KJV)
Scripture doesn't merely command love — it defines it, embodies it, and names God by it: "God is love." These twenty verses trace love from God's initiative to our response, including the "charity" of 1 Corinthians 13, which is the Greek word agape: deliberate, self-giving love.
“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 (KJV)
“Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,”1 Corinthians 13:4 (KJV)
“And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.”1 Corinthians 13:13 (KJV)
“He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.”1 John 4:8 (KJV)
“We love him, because he first loved us.”1 John 4:19 (KJV)
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”John 15:13 (KJV)
“But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”Romans 5:8 (KJV)
“For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,”Romans 8:38 (KJV)
“Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.”Proverbs 10:12 (KJV)
“And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.”1 Peter 4:8 (KJV)
“Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.”Song of Solomon 8:7 (KJV)
“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.”Jeremiah 31:3 (KJV)
“O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth for ever.”Psalms 136:26 (KJV)
“With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;”Ephesians 4:2 (KJV)
“And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.”Colossians 3:14 (KJV)
“And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.”Mark 12:30 (KJV)
“And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.”Mark 12:31 (KJV)
“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 (KJV)
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,”Galatians 5:22 (KJV)
“Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;”Deuteronomy 7:9 (KJV)
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