14 Bible Verses About Being in Love

  • The Song of Solomon gives both lovers a voice: the woman searches the city for “him whom my soul loves” (Song of Solomon 3:1-4), and the man says one glance from her has captivated his heart (Song of Solomon 4:9).
  • Three times the Song charges the daughters of Jerusalem not to “stir up or awaken love until it pleases” (Song of Solomon 2:7, 3:5 and 8:4).
  • Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him a few days “because of the love he had for her” (Genesis 29:20).
  • Genesis 2:24 is quoted by Jesus in Mark 10:7-8 and by Paul in Ephesians 5:31.
  • 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 was written to the church at Corinth and describes love by what it does.

The Bible describes being in love most fully in the Song of Solomon, where a woman and a man take turns speaking about each other. She searches the city for “him whom my soul loves” (Song of Solomon 3:4), and the poem says that “love is strong as death” (Song of Solomon 8:6). Genesis adds Jacob, whose seven years of work for Rachel “seemed to him but a few days” (Genesis 29:20), and the first man’s words on meeting the…

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