Bible Verses About God’s Love

The heart of the Bible’s message: God’s love, shown most fully in sending his Son.

  1. For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
    John 3:16Read in context
  2. But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
  3. 38For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  4. 9This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him. 10And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
  5. Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.
  6. 4But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!
  7. The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.
  8. The Lord your God is among you; He is mighty to save. He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you with His love; He will rejoice over you with singing.”
  9. Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good. His loving devotion endures forever.
  10. And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
  11. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His loving devotion for those who fear Him.
  12. 17so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth 19of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.