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20 Bible Verses About Love and Relationships

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Summary

  • 1 John 4:10 defines love from God’s side first, “not that we loved God, but that he loved us,” and verse 11 draws from it the duty to love one another.
  • Asked for the greatest commandment, Jesus gave Deuteronomy 6:5 and a second “like it” from Leviticus 19:18, and said the Law and the Prophets hang on them (Matthew 22:37-40).
  • 1 Corinthians 13 was written to a church reported to be quarrelling, between instructions on spiritual gifts.
  • Ephesians 5:25 measures a husband’s love by Christ, who “gave himself up for” the church.
  • Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 sets the benefits of companionship against a man who toiled alone with “neither son nor brother.”

In the Bible, love between people is modelled on God’s love for them. Jesus gave the command in those terms: “As I have loved you, so you must love one another” (John 13:34). The passages that carry the subject are God’s giving of his Son (John 3:16; 1 John 4:9-10), the greatest commandment and the second like it, as Jesus named them (Matthew 22:37-40), Paul’s description of love in 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, the command to husbands in Ephesians 5:25, and…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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