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What the Bible says about love
Love is the centre of both the Old and the New Testament as the Bible tells it. The famous passages gather around three ideas: God's love for the world, the love of people for one another, and the description of what love is like in everyday behaviour.
The verses
Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
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.
We love him, because he first loved us.
Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
The Bible text is the World English Bible, a modern English translation in the public domain. Christians differ in how they read and apply the Bible, and the notes on this site are plain descriptions, not teaching. Ask your own church or teacher about what it means for you.