12 Inspirational Bible Verses About Love

The Bible motivates us to have faith, to hope, and to love.

The greatest commandment in the Bible encompasses love, and the second one also does the same. To truly perfect love, one must love God and show love to others.

Below are 12 verses from the Bible to inspire you about love.

1 John 4

Verse 11 “Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought to love one another. Verse 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us” (ESV)

1 Corinthians 13

Verse 13 “So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.” (ESV)

John 15

Verse 12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.” (ESV)

Romans 13

Verse 8  “Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.” (ESV)

1 Corinthians 16

Verse 14 “Let all that you do be done in love.”(ESV)

1 Peter 4

Verse 8 “Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.” (ESV)

Proverbs 10

Verse 12 “Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offences.”(ESV)

1 Corinthians 13

Verse 2 “And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. Verse 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Verse 4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant Verse 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; Verse 6 It does not rejoice at wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. Verse 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Verse 8 Love never ends.” (ESV)

John 13

Verse 34 “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.”(ESV)

Ephesians 4

Verse 2 ” with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, Verse 3 eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.  (ESV)

Isaiah 54

Verse 10 “For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you.” (ESV)

Song of Solomon 8

Verse 7 “Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised.” (ESV)

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