SinaiBible verses about Love
How God loves us, and what it looks like to love Him and each other.
100 verses in 10 themes · World English Bible
God's Love for Us
Love that came first, and does not depend on our performance.
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.
But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.
But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—
Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness.
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.
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.
For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness will not depart from you, and my covenant of peace will not be removed,” says Yahweh who has mercy on you.
Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever.
What Love Is
Paul's description of love, and John's claim that God is love.
If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.
If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.
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, and 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.
But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
Love for God
The first and greatest commandment.
You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment.
Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days, that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
I love you, Yahweh, my strength.
I love Yahweh, because he listens to my voice, and my cries for mercy.
If you love me, keep my commandments.
One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”
For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
Love One Another
The command Jesus gave His followers as their identifying mark.
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;
Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.
Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;
Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,
Let brotherly love continue.
Love Your Neighbour
Love as the summary of the whole law.
“ ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.
A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”
But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion, came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.
Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
Loving Your Enemies
The hardest command, and the one Jesus tied to the Father's character.
But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,
For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same? If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?
“But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you.
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.
Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.
Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t curse.
Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men. If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.
Therefore “If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head.”
If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink;
“If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again. If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him. You shall surely help him with it.
Sacrificial Love
Love measured by what it costs the one giving it.
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?
Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die.
For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died. He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
Love in Marriage
Covenant love between husband and wife.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh. Many waters can’t quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned.
My beloved is mine, and I am his. He browses among the lilies.
Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. A loving doe and a graceful deer— let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.
Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband trusts in her. He shall have no lack of gain.
Let the husband give his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife her husband.
Love in Family and Friendship
The people God gives you to love up close.
A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.
A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up.
Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God. Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.”
See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!
But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord. Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.
that they may train the young wives to love their husbands, to love their children,
These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart; and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
Walking in Love
Staying in it — love as an ongoing way of living, not a feeling.
Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.
If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.
Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
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.
Let all that you do be done in love.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,
This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.