No matter what your relationship status, these Bible verses are perfect for celebrating Valentine’s Day. Perhaps you want to reflect on these words of love personally, or maybe you want to share them with a sweetheart. Either way, here are some of our favorite Bible verses regarding love, in all its forms, for those special relationships in your life.
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
– 1 John 4:8 [ESV]
Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
– Ephesians 4:2 [NIV]
Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.
– Psalm 143:8 [ESV]
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.
– 1 John 4:18 [NKJV]
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
– 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 [NIV]
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
– 1 John 4:7 [NKJV]
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
– 1 Peter 4:8 [ESV]
But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.
– Colossians 3:14 [NKJV]
My beloved is mine, and I am his;
– Song of Solomon 2:16 [ESV]
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
– Ephesians 5:25 [KJV]
Dear children, let’s not merely say that we love each other; let us show the truth by our actions.
– 1 John 3:18 [NLT]
Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
– Psalm 37:4 [NIV]
Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.
– Romans 12:10 [NIV]
Let all that you do be done in love.
– 1 Corinthians 16:14 [ESV]
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