Bible Verses on Love
 

It is our sincere desire that as you read these inspirational bible verses, you would be uplifted and your love for our Lord Jesus Christ would be deepened.

Love Surpasses All Spiritual Gifts
Read 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

This passage gives one of the most complete descriptions of love in the Bible. Most importantly, it shows that love needs to be the one thing in life we seek more than anything else. For without it , whatever we do are say really has no lasting value. Compare the love described here with the superficial love found in this world.

  • God says love should be directed toward others (verses 1-3)
    The world says love should be directed towards ourselves.
  • God says love is patient and kind (verse 4)
    The world says love satisfies your immediate needs.
  • God says love is never jealous or envious (verse 4)
    The world says you deserve the "best"
  • God says love is never boastful or proud (verse 4)
    The world says love isn't necessary to make people respect you
  • God says love is never rude (verse 5)
    The world says love lets you act as you please
    God says love does not demand its own way (verse 5)
    The world says love gets in the way of whats in it for me
  • God says love is not irritable or touchy, and it holds no grudges
    The world says love takes a backseat when it comes to seeking revenge
  • God says love rejoices in justice and truth
    The world says love understands-even ignores-evil
  • God says love is loyal (verse 7)
    The world says love should be self serving

    The kind of love God wants you to give others is impossible to "manufacture" on our on. You might say it is "supernatural" love. It is a natural outflow of God's presence, in our lives. That is why the Bible says, "[God] has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love" (Romans 5:5).
    If you feel your love for others is falling short of God's ideal, ask the Holy Spirit to strengthen you in this area. Your relationships will never be the same.

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    1 Corinthians 13:1. If I [can] speak in the tongues of men and [even of angels, but have not love (that reasoning, intentional, spiritual devotion such as is inspired by God's love for and in us), I am only a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
    1 Corinthians 13:2. And if I have prophetic powers (the gift of interpreting the divine will and purpose), and understand all the secret truths and mysteries and possess all knowledge, and if I have [sufficent] faith so that I can remove mountians, but have not love (God's love in me) I am nothing (a useless nobody).
    1 Corinthians 13:3. Even if I dole out all that I have [to the poor in providing] food, and if I surrender my body to be burned or in order that I may glory, but have not love (God's love in me), I gain nothing.
    1 Corinthians 13:4. Love endures long and is patient and kind; love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily.
    1 Corinthians 13:5. It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); it is not rude (unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly. Love (God's love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong].
    1 Corinthians 13:6. It does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoices when right and truth prevail.
    1 Corinthians 13:7. Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening].
    1 Corinthians 13:8. Love never fails [never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end]. As for prophecy (the gift of interpreting the divine will and purpose), it will be fulfilled and pass away; as for tongues, they will be destroyed and cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away [it will lose its value and be superceded with truth].
    1 Corinthians 13:9. For our knowledge is fragmentary (incomplete and imperfect), and our prophecy (our teaching) is fragmentary (incomplete and imperfect).
    1 Corinthians 13:10. But when the complete and perfect (total) comes, the incomplete and imperfect will vanish away (become antiquated, void, and superceded).
    1 Corinthians 13:11. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; now that I have become a man, I am done with childish ways and have put them aside.
    1 Corinthians 13:12. For now we are looking in a mirror that gives only a dim (blurred) reflection [of reality as in a riddle or enigma], but then [when perfection comes] we shall see in reality and face to face! Now I know in part (imperfectly), but then I shall know and understand fully and clearly, even in the same manner as I have been fully and clearly known and understood [by God].
    1 Corinthians 13:13. And so faith, hope, love abide [faith-conviction and belief respecting man's relation to God and divine things; hope-joyful and confident expectation of eternal salvation; love-true affection for God and man, growing out of God's love for and in us] these three; but the greatest of these is love.     Back to message. Amplified Bible

    While we look forward to the glories of heaven, one thing far outweighs them all: the fact that we will be able to spend eternity with Jesus. Dwight L. Moody once wrote, "It is not the jeweled walls and the pearly gates that are going to make heaven attractive. It is being with God." May that truth inspire you as you live out your life on this earth.

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    Bible Verses on Love