What does the Bible say about love?
Love is the Bible's most insistent theme. God is defined by it (1 John 4:8), Jesus stakes the whole law on it (Matthew 22:37-40), and Paul argues that without it, every other virtue is hollow (1 Corinthians 13). Biblical love is verb-shaped — patient, kind, slow to anger, willing to suffer — not primarily a feeling.
Love is the fulfillment of the law.
Bible verses about love
"Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil; rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things."
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"Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love."
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"A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another."
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"Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: love therefore is the fulfilment of the law."
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"And he said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second like unto it is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."
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"My little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth."
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"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 creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
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Frequently asked
What is 1 Corinthians 13 about?
It is Paul's portrait of love: patient, kind, not envious, not boastful, bearing all things, hoping all things — and superior to even the most spiritual gifts.
What is the greatest commandment about love?
Jesus answered in Matthew 22: love God with everything you are, and love your neighbor as yourself. 'On these two commandments depend the whole law and the prophets.'
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