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,
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.
Beareth, believeth, hopeth, endureth all things. Read in context →
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
The greatest of these is charity. Read in context →
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
Charity — the bond of perfectness, worn over everything. Read in context →
Let all your things be done with charity.
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.
Many waters cannot quench love. Read in context →
My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.
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.
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.
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;
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:
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.
We love him, because he first loved us. Read in context →
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
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.
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.
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,
Nothing shall be able to separate us from the love of God. Read in context →
Make this verse yours
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Verses about love
The full collection — God's love and ours.
Verses about marriage
Scripture for the covenant kind of love.
1 Corinthians 13 meaning
The love chapter, explained line by line.
A prayer for my marriage
Written words for two people and a third strand.
Make a love verse card
Turn any of these into a beautiful card — free.
Read the Song of Solomon
The Bible's own love poetry, in full.
