The Morning Psalm
Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day Bible verses — Scripture on love

Long before greeting cards, the Bible wrote the truest things ever said about love — what it is, how it behaves, and where it comes from. These verses gather them: the love chapter, Scripture for couples, and the everlasting love underneath it all — each verse exact King James Version, with a gentle note.

Read one in a card, over dinner, or quietly with gratitude. Every verse links into its full chapter — and any of them makes a lovely verse card.

What love is

The love chapter — the Bible's definition, one clause at a time.

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
1 Corinthians 13:4–5, KJV

Suffereth long, is kind, envieth not — love, defined by its behaviour. Read in context →

Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
1 Corinthians 13:7, KJV

Beareth, believeth, hopeth, endureth all things. Read in context →

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
1 Corinthians 13:13, KJV

The greatest of these is charity. Read in context →

And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
Colossians 3:14, KJV

Charity — the bond of perfectness, worn over everything. Read in context →

Let all your things be done with charity.
1 Corinthians 16:14, KJV

Let all your things be done with charity. Read in context →

Love between two people

Scripture for sweethearts, spouses, and the covenant kind of love.

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.
Song of Solomon 8:7, KJV

Many waters cannot quench love. Read in context →

My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.
Song of Solomon 2:16, KJV

My beloved is mine, and I am his. Read in context →

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Genesis 2:24, KJV

One flesh — the covenant at the heart of romance. Read in context →

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
Ecclesiastes 4:9–10, KJV

Two are better than one — and there for each other's falls. Read in context →

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Ephesians 5:25, KJV

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church. Read in context →

And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:
Ruth 1:16, KJV

Whither thou goest, I will go — the Bible's great loyalty vow. Read in context →

The love that started it all

Every human love is an echo of a first, greater one.

We love him, because he first loved us.
1 John 4:19, KJV

We love him, because he first loved us. Read in context →

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
1 John 4:8, KJV

God is love — not merely loving, but love itself. Read in 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.
John 3:16, KJV

For God so loved the world — the source of every other love. Read in context →

The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
Jeremiah 31:3, KJV

I have loved thee with an everlasting love. Read in context →

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Romans 8:38–39, KJV

Nothing shall be able to separate us from the love of God. Read in context →

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