The word in Scripture

Love in the Bible

The word love appears 311 times in the King James Version of the Bible. Love is the heart of God's character and the sum of His law, both the steadfast love He pours out on His people and the love He commands us to have for God and for one another. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What love means in the Bible

Love is the heart of God's character and the sum of His law, both the steadfast love He pours out on His people and the love He commands us to have for God and for one another.

Where the word love appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word love appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.”Psalms 40:16

“Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.”Psalms 97:10

“For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?”Matthew 5:46

“For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.”Luke 6:32

“A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.”John 13:34

“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”John 15:13

“But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”Romans 5:8

“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”Romans 8:28