What the Bible Says About Love
God is love. Everything Scripture says about love starts there.
The world's idea of love is a feeling. Biblical love is a covenant act — patient, kind, sacrificial, and unbreakable. These verses define it and show it.
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✨ Ask the Bible →Love in Scripture (KJV)
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
The love chapter. Read this as a description of Christ — and as the standard you're called to.
Read in context →For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
The verse the world knows. God's love measured in what He gave.
Read in context →Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Love is from God. If you don't love, you don't know God — because God is love.
Read in context →But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
God demonstrated His love — while we were still sinners. Not "after we cleaned up."
Read in context →We love him, because he first loved us.
We love because He first loved us. Our love is always a response, never the source.
Read in context →A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; 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.
A new commandment — that you love one another. The mark of a disciple.
Read in context →Read these passages in full with AI explanations, cross-references, and 5 translations.
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