SinaiBible verses about Love
What Love Is
Paul's description of love, and John's claim that God is love.
10 verses · World English Bible, with the American Standard Version beneath
If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
ASV If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.
ASV And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.
ASV And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
ASV Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;
doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
ASV rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.
ASV Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall be done away.
But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
ASV But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
ASV He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
ASV And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him.
Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
ASV and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.