Bible Verses about “true love”
The Bible contains 50 verses about true love across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“‹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.›”
“¶ Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,”
“Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;”
“Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;”
“‹No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.›”
“And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these [is] charity.”
“Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?”
“¶ ‹If ye love me, keep my commandments.›”
“But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman [is] the man; and the head of Christ [is] God.”
“‹A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.›”
“But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for [her] hair is given her for a covering.”
“He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.”
“¶ Be ye followers of me, even as I also [am] of Christ.”
“But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
“For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.”
“But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with [her] head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.”
“Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered [them] to you.”
“For as the woman [is] of the man, even so [is] the man also by the woman; but all things of God.”
“For this cause ought the woman to have power on [her] head because of the angels.”
“‹By this shall all› [men] ‹know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.›”
“But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.”
“Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.”
“For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.”
“For a man indeed ought not to cover [his] head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.”
“And when he had given thanks, he brake [it], and said, ‹Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.›”
“Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?”
“For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.”
“Every man praying or prophesying, having [his] head covered, dishonoureth his head.”
“After the same manner also [he took] the cup, when he had supped, saying, ‹This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink› [it], ‹in remembrance of me.›”
“But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of [that] bread, and drink of [that] cup.”
“Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.”
“Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink [this] cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.”
“For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.”
“For this cause many [are] weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.”
“¶ For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the [same] night in which he was betrayed took bread:”
“Jesus answered and said unto him, ‹Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.›”
“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 creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
“What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise [you] not.”
“And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.”
“For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.”
“When ye come together therefore into one place, [this] is not to eat the Lord's supper.”
“For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.”
“But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.”
“For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.”
“¶ Now in this that I declare [unto you] I praise [you] not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.”
“For in eating every one taketh before [other] his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.”
“Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.”
“‹I am the vine, ye› [are] ‹the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.›”
“¶ For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only [use] not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.”