Valentine’s Day brings thoughts of love. Our perfect Valentine is God because God is love. These Bible verses reveal His love for us. Read 33 Bible Verses For Valentines Day.
We all know that there would be no Valentine’s Day without love. All around the world, people celebrate Valentine’s Day every year and often get together with their loved ones, friends, and most commonly, their significant others.
Of course, this day might look different for everyone. But if there is one thing about love and its presence in Scripture, it is that God is love and that He has called us to love others, as He loves us.
The Bible is filled with Scriptures about love. That is where we learn of God’s love towards us, and the love we are meant to share with others. If you’re looking for what God’s word has to say about love this Valentine’s Day, here you go!
33 Bible Verses for Valentine’s Day
1. 1 John 4:19 – He Loved Us First
We love because he first loved us.
2. 1 John 3:18 – Love With Deeds Not Only Words
Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
3. 1 Corinthians 13:1-2 – We Cannot Do Anything Apart From Love
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing
4. 1 Peter 4:8 – Love Covers A Multitude of Sin
Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
5. 1 Corinthians 13:6-8 – Love Never Fails
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.
6. Romans 12:9 – Love Sincerely
Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.
7. Colossians 3:13-14 – Love Binds Virtues Together
Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
8. Mark 12:33 – Love Is Better Than Sacrifice
To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.
9. Song of Solomon 4:10 – The Delight of Love
How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much more pleasing is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume more than any spice!
10. Ephesians 5:1 – We Are Dearly Loved By God
Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children
11. John 3:16 – God’s Great Love Revealed In Christ
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life
12. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 – The Qualities of Love
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. Love never fails.
But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
13. 1 Corinthians 13:13 – The Greatest is Love
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
14. 1 John 4:8 – We Cannot Know God If We Do Not Love
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
15. Ephesians 5:25 – Love Your Wife As Christ Loved the Church
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.
16. John 15:13 – Love Lays His Down For His Friends
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
17. Romans 12:10 – Be Devoted in Love
Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.
18. Psalm 63:1-5 – God’s Love Is Better Than Life
O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you.
I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands. My soul will be satisfied as with the richest of foods; with singing lips my mouth will praise you.
19. Galatians 5:22-23 – Love Is Part of the Fruit of the Spirit
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
20. 1 Corinthians 16:14 – Do Everything In Love
Do everything in love.
21. Ephesians 3:16-17 – Rooted & Established in Love
I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love.
22. John 15:12 – Jesus’ Command to Love
My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
23. 1 John 4:18 – There Is No Fear In Love
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
24. 1 John 4:12 – Love is Made Complete in Us
No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
25. Proverbs 3:3-4 – Love & Faithfulness
Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man
26. Matthew 22:37-39 – The Most Important Commandment
Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
27. Romans 13:8 – Continue in Love
Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.
28. Ephesians 4:2 – Bear in Love
Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
29. 1 John 4:20 – We Cannot Love God & Hate Others
Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.
30. Psalm 143:8 – God’s Unfailing Love
Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life.
31. 1 Corinthians 2:9 – God’s Plan For Those Who Love Him
However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived”— the things God has prepared for those who love him.
32. Proverbs 17:17 – The Love of A Friend
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
33. 1 John 4:9-18 – God’s Love Through Christ
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love.
Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus.
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
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