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Bible Verses About Love and God’s Love
The word “love” gets used so loosely that it’s hard to pin down. Some people are being loved well right now; some doubt whether they’re worth loving; and some just want to know whether the kind of love that doesn’t get withdrawn when you mess up is even real.
Here are eight passages from the Bible about love — between people, and the love of God. They don’t judge whether you love enough. They lay the word out, one verse at a time, and let you read slowly.
What the Bible Says About Love
But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:8
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.
Romans 8:38-39
The LORD appeared of old to me, saying, “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness.
Jeremiah 31:3
The LORD, 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.
Zephaniah 3:17
We love him, because he first loved us.
1 John 4:19
“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:12-13
For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.
Psalm 103:11
But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:13