“Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.”
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A public-domain King James Version passage from 1 John 4:7, included with its reference for context.
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Bible quotes about love with references for context
Read Bible quotes about love from the public-domain King James Version, with verse references and context for weddings, anniversaries, study, and reflection.
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“He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.”
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A public-domain King James Version passage from 1 John 4:8, included with its reference for context.
“Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”
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A public-domain King James Version passage from 1 John 4:10, included with its reference for context.
“Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.”
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A public-domain King James Version passage from 1 John 4:11, included with its reference for context.
“No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.”
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A public-domain King James Version passage from 1 John 4:12, included with its reference for context.
“And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.”
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A public-domain King James Version passage from 1 John 4:16, included with its reference for context.
“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.”
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A public-domain King James Version passage from 1 John 4:18, included with its reference for context.
“Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,”
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A public-domain King James Version passage from 1 Corinthians 13:4, included with its reference for context.
“Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;”
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A public-domain King James Version passage from 1 Corinthians 13:5, included with its reference for context.
“Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;”
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A public-domain King James Version passage from 1 Corinthians 13:6, included with its reference for context.
“Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.”
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A public-domain King James Version passage from 1 Corinthians 13:7, included with its reference for context.
“Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.”
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A public-domain King James Version passage from 1 Corinthians 13:8, included with its reference for context.
“And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.”
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A public-domain King James Version passage from 1 Corinthians 13:13, included with its reference for context.
“This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.”
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A public-domain King James Version passage from John 15:12, included with its reference for context.
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
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A public-domain King James Version passage from John 15:13, included with its reference for 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.”
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A public-domain King James Version passage from John 3:16, included with its reference for context.
“With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;”
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A public-domain King James Version passage from Ephesians 4:2, included with its reference for context.
“But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:”
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A public-domain King James Version passage from Ephesians 4:15, included with its reference for context.
“And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.”
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A public-domain King James Version passage from Ephesians 5:2, included with its reference for context.
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;”
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A public-domain King James Version passage from Ephesians 5:25, included with its reference for context.
“So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.”
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A public-domain King James Version passage from Ephesians 5:28, included with its reference for context.
“And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.”
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A public-domain King James Version passage from Colossians 3:14, included with its reference for context.
“Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.”
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A public-domain King James Version passage from Colossians 3:19, included with its reference for context.
“Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.”
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A public-domain King James Version passage from Proverbs 10:12, included with its reference for context.
“A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.”
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A public-domain King James Version passage from Proverbs 17:17, included with its reference for context.
“Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.”
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A public-domain King James Version passage from Proverbs 18:22, included with its reference for context.
“Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.”
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A public-domain King James Version passage from Ecclesiastes 4:9, included with its reference for context.
“For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.”
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A public-domain King James Version passage from Ecclesiastes 4:10, included with its reference for context.
“My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.”
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A public-domain King James Version passage from Song of Solomon 2:16, included with its reference for context.
“Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.”
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A public-domain King James Version passage from Song of Solomon 8:6, included with its reference for context.
“Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.”
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A public-domain King James Version passage from Song of Solomon 8:7, included with its reference for context.
“Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.”
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A public-domain King James Version passage from Romans 12:9, included with its reference for context.
“Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;”
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A public-domain King James Version passage from Romans 12:10, included with its reference for context.
“Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.”
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A public-domain King James Version passage from Romans 13:10, included with its reference for context.
“And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.”
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A public-domain King James Version passage from 1 Peter 4:8, included with its reference for context.
“And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:”
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A public-domain King James Version passage from 1 Thessalonians 3:12, included with its reference for context.
“And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:”
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A public-domain King James Version passage from Hebrews 10:24, included with its reference for context.
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How to use Bible quotes about love
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