16 Bible Verses for Valentine’s Day, Including the Ones for People Who Find It Long

Christian Pure Team

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Summary

  • There is no Valentine in the Bible; the Church removed his feast from the general calendar in 1969 because almost nothing about him could be established.
  • The Song of Solomon is the only book given over entirely to desire, and its closing argument is that love cannot be bought.
  • The fifteen statements of 1 Corinthians 13 describe behaviour, not emotion, which is why they work on a bad week.
  • The highest thing said about love in the Gospels — laying down a life — is said about friendship.
  • Ruth’s vow, the most quoted in English, was made by one widow to another on a road, with no romance in the scene.

There is no Valentine in the Bible, and remarkably little about the man the day is named for. The Roman martyrology carries a Valentine buried on the Via Flaminia, and in 1969 the Church quietly removed his feast from the general calendar because almost nothing beyond the name and the burial could be established. The flowers, the cards and the date all arrived later, from somewhere else. What Scripture does bring to a day about love is one entire book…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

The feast of St Valentine was removed from the General Roman Calendar in the 1969 revision, which noted that beyond his name and his burial on the Via Flaminia nothing was reliably known.

The Hebrew phrase behind “noble character” at Proverbs 31:10 is eshet hayil; hayil is used elsewhere of armies and of men of standing.

The fruit of the Spirit is singular in the Greek of Galatians 5:22.

Naomi tells Ruth to turn back at Ruth 1:8 and again at 1:12.

Zephaniah’s judgment oracles run from 1:2 to 3:8.

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