Do You Know What Love Is? How Do You Define Love? Why Should You Love? Here’s Scripture On Love
1 Corinthians 13:4-13 4Love is patient and kind; it is not jealous or conceited or proud; 5love is not ill-mannered or selfish or irritable; love does not keep a record of wrongs; 6love is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth.
Luke 6:27 27But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
1 Peter 4:8 8 Above everything, love one another earnestly, because love covers over many sins.
Hebrews 13:1 1Keep on loving one another as Christians.
1 John 4:19 19We love because God first loved us.
John 15:12 12 My commandment is this: love one another, just as I love you.
Luke 10:27 27 The man answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind’; and ‘Love your neighbor as you love yourself.’”
Deuteronomy 6:5 5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
Luke 14:26 26 “Those who come to me cannot be my disciples unless they love me more than they love father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and themselves as well.
Jude 1:2 2May mercy, peace, and love be yours in full measure.
Mark 12:30 30Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’
John 15:17 17This, then, is what I command you: love one another.
1 Corinthians 16:14 14Do all your work in love.
1 John 4:16 16And we ourselves know and believe the love which God has for us. God is love, and those who live in love live in union with God and God lives in union with them.
Colossians 3:19 19 Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
Luke 6:32 32“If you love only the people who love you, why should you receive a blessing? Even sinners love those who love them!
John 14:21 21 “Those who accept my commandments and obey them are the ones who love me. My Father will love those who love me; I too will love them and reveal myself to them.”
1 John 4:7 7Dear friends, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Whoever loves is a child of God and knows God.
Matthew 22:37 37 Jesus answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
1 John 4:12 12 No one has ever seen God, but if we love one another, God lives in union with us, and his love is made perfect in us.
2 John 1:6 6This love I speak of means that we must live in obedience to God’s commands. The command, as you have all heard from the beginning, is that you must all live in love.
Psalm 26:8 8I love the house where you live, O Lord , the place where your glory dwells.
2 Peter 1:7 7to your godliness add Christian affection; and to your Christian affection add love.
1 John 4:20 20If we say we love God, but hate others, we are liars. For we cannot love God, whom we have not seen, if we do not love others, whom we have seen.
Deuteronomy 6:5 5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
1 John 4:8 8Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.
1 Corinthians 13:5 5love is not ill-mannered or selfish or irritable; love does not keep a record of wrongs;
Deuteronomy 5:10 10But I show my love to thousands of generations of those who love me and obey my laws.
1 John 5:2 2This is how we know that we love God’s children: it is by loving God and obeying his commands.
Zephaniah 3:17 17The Lord your God is with you; his power gives you victory. The Lord will take delight in you, and in his love he will give you new life. He will sing and be joyful over you,
1 John 4:9 9And God showed his love for us by sending his only Son into the world, so that we might have life through him.
1 John 3:18 18My children, our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action.
1 Peter 1:22 22Now that by your obedience to the truth you have purified yourselves and have come to have a sincere love for other believers, love one another earnestly with all your heart.
Ephesians 5:25 25 Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave his life for it.
Hebrews 10:24 24Let us be concerned for one another, to help one another to show love and to do good.
1 John 4:11 11Dear friends, if this is how God loved us, then we should love one another.
1 John 4:10 10This is what love is: it is not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the means by which our sins are forgiven.
1 Corinthians 13:13 13Meanwhile these three remain: faith, hope, and love; and the greatest of these is love.
Micah 6:8 8No, the Lord has told us what is good. What he requires of us is this: to do what is just, to show constant love, and to live in humble fellowship with our God.
1 John 4:18 18There is no fear in love; perfect love drives out all fear. So then, love has not been made perfect in anyone who is afraid, because fear has to do with punishment.
Ephesians 5:28 28Men ought to love their wives just as they love their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself.
John 13:35 35If you have love for one another, then everyone will know that you are my disciples.”
1 Corinthians 13:1 Love 1I may be able to speak the languages of human beings and even of angels, but if I have no love, my speech is no more than a noisy gong or a clanging bell.
Jeremiah 31:3 3I appeared to them from far away. People of Israel, I have always loved you, so I continue to show you my constant love.
1 Corinthians 13:6 6love is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth.
Hosea 3:1 Hosea and the Unfaithful Woman 1The Lord said to me, “Go again and show your love for a woman who is committing adultery with a lover. You must love her just as I still love the people of Israel, even though they turn to other gods and like to take offerings of raisins to idols.”
1 Corinthians 13:7 7Love never gives up; and its faith, hope, and patience never fail.
1 Corinthians 13:8 8Love is eternal. There are inspired messages, but they are temporary; there are gifts of speaking in strange tongues, but they will cease; there is knowledge, but it will pass.
1 Corinthians 13:3 3I may give away everything I have, and even give up my body to be burned —but if I have no love, this does me no good.
1 Corinthians 13:2 2 I may have the gift of inspired preaching; I may have all knowledge and understand all secrets; I may have all the faith needed to move mountains—but if I have no love, I am nothing.
James 2:8 8 You will be doing the right thing if you obey the law of the Kingdom, which is found in the scripture, “Love your neighbor as you love yourself.”
1 Timothy 6:10 10For the love of money is a source of all kinds of evil. Some have been so eager to have it that they have wandered away from the faith and have broken their hearts with many sorrows.
John 13:34 34 And now I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
Leviticus 19:18 18 Do not take revenge on others or continue to hate them, but love your neighbors as you love yourself. I am the Lord .
John 3:16 16For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life.
Proverbs 10:12 12 Hate stirs up trouble, but love forgives all offenses.
Matthew 5:43 Love for Enemies 43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your friends, hate your enemies.’
Romans 8:28 28We know that in all things God works for good with those who love him, those whom he has called according to his purpose.
Galatians 5:14 14 For the whole Law is summed up in one commandment: “Love your neighbor as you love yourself.”
Psalm 136:7 7 He made the sun and the moon; his love is eternal;
Matthew 19:19 19 respect your father and your mother; and love your neighbor as you love yourself.”
Colossians 1:8 8He has told us of the love that the Spirit has given you.
1 Corinthians 4:21 21Which do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a whip, or in a spirit of love and gentleness?
Psalm 118:2 2Let the people of Israel say, “His love is eternal.”
Psalm 89:2 2I know that your love will last for all time, that your faithfulness is as permanent as the sky.
1 Thessalonians 5:8 8 But we belong to the day, and we should be sober. We must wear faith and love as a breastplate, and our hope of salvation as a helmet.
1 John 4:17 17Love is made perfect in us in order that we may have courage on the Judgment Day; and we will have it because our life in this world is the same as Christ’s.
Ephesians 3:19 19Yes, may you come to know his love—although it can never be fully known—and so be completely filled with the very nature of God.
Psalm 36:5 The Goodness of God 5 Lord , your constant love reaches the heavens; your faithfulness extends to the skies.
Psalm 119:159 159See how I love your instructions, Lord . Your love never changes, so save me!
1 Corinthians 16:24 24My love be with you all in Christ Jesus.
Joshua 23:11 11Be careful, then, to love the Lord your God.
Matthew 5:46 46Why should God reward you if you love only the people who love you? Even the tax collectors do that!
Exodus 20:6 6But I show my love to thousands of generations of those who love me and obey my laws.
John 15:9 9I love you just as the Father loves me; remain in my love.
1 John 4:21 21The command that Christ has given us is this: whoever loves God must love others also.
Psalm 103:4 4He keeps me from the grave and blesses me with love and mercy.
Psalm 106:45 45For their sake he remembered his covenant, and because of his great love he relented.
Psalm 119:167 167I obey your teachings; I love them with all my heart.
Psalm 119:47 47I find pleasure in obeying your commands, because I love them.
Psalm 136:23 23He did not forget us when we were defeated; his love is eternal;
Psalm 136:25 25He gives food to every living creature; his love is eternal.
Galatians 5:22
22 But the Spirit produces love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
1 Peter 4:8
8 Above everything, love one another earnestly, because love covers over many sins.
Romans 8:38-39
38 I am sure that nothing can separate us from God’s love—not life or death, not angels or spirits, not the present or the future,
1 Corinthians 13:13
13 For now there are faith, hope, and love. But of these three, the greatest is love.
Walking in love,
Tayarisha Joyce