Faith Expressions

Part III: GOD is LOVE

Here is a list which contains Bible verses about the incomprehensible love of an adoptive God through Christ. Specifically, the quoted Bible verses come from the books of Psalms, Song of Songs and Isaiah of the Old Testament, and from the gospels of Mark and John and the letters of Paul and John of the New Testament. All of the Bible verses quoted from the sources provide a description, a statement, a command, a declaration or a teaching about God and love. At the end of each Bible verse or group of Bible verses is a phrase interpretation by the author of the website.

Book of Psalms

“Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good. His faithful love endures forever. Give thanks to the God of gods. His faithful love endures forever. Give thanks to the Lord of lords. His faithful love endures forever. He alone does great wonders. His faithful love endures forever…He remembered us in our humiliation. His faithful love endures forever. [And] rescued us from our foes. His faithful love endures forever. He gives food to every creature. His faithful love endures forever. Give thanks to the God of heavens! His faithful love endures forever.”

(Psalm 136:1-4 and 23-26 / CSB 2018) --- Bible verses about the enduring and eternal love of God for us

Song of Songs

“Oh, that he would kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your caresses are more delightful than wine.”

(Song of Songs 1:2 / CSB 2018) --- Bible verse about God’s love as delightfully sweeter than wine – as expressed by a woman

“Arise, my darling. Come away, my beautiful one. For now the winter is past; the rain has ended and gone away. The blossoms appear in the countryside. The time of singing has come, and the turtledove’s cooing is heard in our land. The fig tree ripens its figs; the blossoming vines give off their fragrance. Arise, my darling. Come away, my beautiful one.”

(Song of Songs 2:10-13 / CSB 2018) --- Bible verses about God’s heart-melting invitation to be with Him in the land of love and freedom – as expressed by a man to a woman

Book of Isaiah

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the child of her womb? Even if these forget, yet I will not forget you. Look, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.”

(Isaiah 49:15-16 / CSB 2018) --- Bible verses about God’s love for the most unwanted and most disadvantaged

Gospel of John

“For God loved the world in this way: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.”

(John 3:16 / CSB 2018) --- Bible verse about God’s love through Jesus

[Jesus said] “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The hired hand, since he is not the shepherd and doesn’t own the sheep, leaves them and runs away when he sees a wolf coming.”

(John 10:11-12 / CSB 2018) --- Bible verses about Jesus as the Good Shepherd

“As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you. Remain in my love. If you keep my commands you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.”

(John 15:9-11 / CSB 2018) --- Bible verses about God’s love that is shared by Jesus to us

“This is my command: Love one another as I have loved you.”

(John 15:12 / CSB 2018) --- Bible verse about Jesus’s command to share his love with others

“No one has greater love than this: to lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you.” 

(John 15:13-14 / CSB 2018) --- Bible verses about the greatest love and God’s friendship

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 John

“Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.”

(1 John 4:7 / CSB 2018) --- Bible verse about God as the source of love

“The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.”

(1 John 4:8 / CSB 2018) --- Bible verse about not knowing love and God

“God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his one and only Son into the world so that we might live through him.”

(1 John 4:9 / CSB 2018) --- Bible verse about God’s expression of love for us through Christ

“Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.”

(1 John 4:10 / CSB 2018) --- Bible verse about what true love is which is God’s expression of love for us through Christ

“God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him. In this, love is made complete with us so that we may have confidence in the day of judgement, because as he is, so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love; instead, perfect love drives out fear….”

(1 John 4:16-18 / CSB 2018) --- Bible verses about God and love and the power of love

“We love because he first loved us.”

(1 John 4:19 / CSB 2018) --- Bible verse about the effect of God loving us first

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Part I: Introduction and God is Creator

Part II: God is Creator - A Continuation

Part III: God is Love

Part IV: God is Redeemer

Part V: God is Redeemer - A Continuation