Faith Expressions

Amore77: A List of Seventy-Seven Bible Verses about Love

Love from the Gospel of John and Paul's Letters to the Romans and Corinthians

Gospel of John

 

“For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.”

(John 16:27 / CSB 2018) --- Bible verse about God the Father loving us through Christ

 

[Jesus Praying for Believers] “Righteous Father, the world has not known you. However, I have known you, and they have known that you sent me. I made your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love you have loved me with may be in them and I may be in them.”

(John 17:25-26 / CSB 2018) --- Bible verses about God the Father’s love for Jesus which Jesus shared with us

 

Letter of Paul to the Romans

 

“Who can separate us from the love of Christ? Can affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: ’Because of you we are being put to death all day long; we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.’ No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, 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 the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

(Romans 8:35-39 / CSB 2018) --- Bible verses about how inseparable is the love of God through Christ for us

 

First Letter of Paul to the Corinthians

 

“If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.”

(1 Corinthians 13:1 / NLT 2016) --- Bible verse about love as an essential part of communications

 

“If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge…but didn’t love others, I would be nothing.”

(1 Corinthians 13:2 / NLT 2016) ---- Bible verse about love and loving others as an essential and integral part of personal talents

 

“…and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing.”

(1 Corinthians 13:2 / NLT 2016) --- Bible verse about love and loving others as an essential and integral part of one’s personal faith

 

“If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.”

(1 Corinthians 13:3 / NLT 2016) --- Bible verse about love and loving others as an essential motive for acts of charity and heroism

 

“Love is patient and kind.”

(1 Corinthians 13:4 / NLT 2016) --- Bible verse about love as patient and kind

 

“Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way.”

(1 Corinthians 13:4-5 / NLT 2016) ---Bible verses about what love is not

 

“It [Love] is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.”

(1 Corinthians 13:5 / NLT 2016) --- Bible verse about love as a characteristic in opposition to anger and vengeance

 

“It [Love] does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.”

(1 Corinthians 13:6 / NLT 2016) --- Bible verse about love as a desire for justice

 

“Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.”

(1 Corinthians 13:7 / NLT 2016) --- Bible verse about love’s power to endure and persevere

 

“Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last for ever!”

(1 Corinthians 13:8 / NLT 2016) --- Bible verse about the eternal power of love

 

“Three things will last for ever – faith, hope, and love – and the greatest of these is love.”

(1 Corinthians 13:13 / NLT 2016) --- Bible verse about love as the greatest virtue

 

“Let love be your highest goal!”

(1 Corinthians 14:1 / NLT 2016) --- Bible verse about love as the ultimate goal in life