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Bible verses about love

These verses move between God's love for us and the love we are called to show one another, including 1 Corinthians 13, the passage read at so many weddings. Learning them by heart is a good way to keep them from becoming familiar words you no longer hear.

11 verses · Text: New King James Version (NKJV)

  1. Psalms 118:1

    Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever.

    God's love endures forever.

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  2. Isaiah 54:10

    For the mountains shall depart and the hills be removed, but My kindness shall not depart from you, nor shall My covenant of peace be removed," says the LORD, who has mercy on you.

    God's love is unfailing.

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  3. Jeremiah 31:3

    The LORD has appeared of old to me, saying: "Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with loving kindness I have drawn you.

    God's love for me is everlasting.

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  4. John 13:34-35

    A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."

    Love as Jesus loved.

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  5. Romans 8:38-39

    For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

    Nothing can ever separate you from the love of God in Jesus.

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  6. Romans 12:9

    Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.

    Love sincerely.

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  7. 1 Corinthians 13:4-7,13

    Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

    What love is.

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  8. Philemon 1:7

    For we have great joy and consolation in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed by you, brother.

    Love encourages others.

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  9. 1 John 3:18

    My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

    Love demands action

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  10. 1 John 4:10

    In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

    God initiated our love-relationship with himself..

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  11. 1 John 4:16

    God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

    God is love.

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How to learn these verses

  1. Pick one verse and play its song a few times.
  2. Cover the text and sing or say it from memory, then check.
  3. Come back to it the next day, then after a few days, then after a week.

The full guide: how to memorize Scripture

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