Study these 111 Scriptures on Love Daily (NLT Version)
Looking to be a better lover, friend, parent, or leader?
There’s no better place than to look in God’s word. God’s word is the best resource to learn how to love.
So here’s a list of 111 Scriptures on Love you can study daily to improve your love skills:
- Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples. John 13:35
- And this hope will not lead to disappointment. For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love. Romans 5:5
- My child, don’t reject the Lord’s discipline,
and don’t be upset when he corrects you.
For the Lord corrects those he loves,
just as a father corrects a child in whom he delights. Proverbs 3:11-12 - But God is so rich in mercy, and he loved us so much, that even though we were dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead. (It is only by God’s grace that you have been saved!) Ephesians 2:4-5
- I correct and discipline everyone I love. So be diligent and turn from your indifference. Revelation 3:19
- We know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us. So we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters. 1 John 3:16
- He loves whatever is just and good;
The unfailing love of the Lord fills the earth. Psalm 33:5 - Dear brothers and sisters, I close my letter with these last words: Be joyful. Grow to maturity. Encourage each other. Live in harmony and peace. Then the God of love and peace will be with you. 2 Corinthians 13:11
- For the commandments say, “You must not commit adultery. You must not murder. You must not steal. You must not covet.” These—and other such commandments—are summed up in this one commandment: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Romans 13:9
- For you have been called to live in freedom, my brothers and sisters. But don’t use your freedom to satisfy your sinful nature. Instead, use your freedom to serve one another in love. Galatians 5:13
- I want them to be encouraged and knit together by strong ties of love. I want them to have complete confidence that they understand God’s mysterious plan, which is Christ himself. Colossians 2:2
- A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ Matthew 22:39
- Jesus replied, “All who love me will do what I say. My Father will love them, and we will come and make our home with each of them.” John 14:23
- May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. 2 Corinthians 13:14
- The one thing I ask of the Lord—
the thing I seek most—
is to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life,
delighting in the Lord’s perfections
and meditating in his Temple. Psalm 27:4 - I have revealed you to them, and I will continue to do so. Then your love for me will be in them, and I will be in them. John 17:26
- If someone has enough money to live well and sees a brother or sister in need but shows no compassion, how can God’s love be in that person? 1 John 3:17
- And he has given us this command: Those who love God must also love their fellow believers. 1 John 4:21
- Listen, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength. Deuteronomy 6:4-5
- But you, dear friends, must build each other up in your most holy faith, pray in the power of the Holy Spirit, and await the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will bring you eternal life. In this way, you will keep yourselves safe in God’s love. Jude 1:20-21
- The Lord is like a father to his children,
tender and compassionate to those who fear him. Psalm 103:13 - Dear brothers and sisters, we can’t help but thank God for you, because your faith is flourishing and your love for one another is growing. 2 Thessalonians 1:3
- Let your favor shine on your servant.
In your unfailing love, rescue me. Psalm 31:16 - For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16
- Lord, don’t hold back your tender mercies from me.
Let your unfailing love and faithfulness always protect me. Psalm 40:11 - Either way, Christ’s love controls us. Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life. He died for everyone so that those who receive his new life will no longer live for themselves. Instead, they will live for Christ, who died and was raised for them. 2 Corinthians 5:14-15
- When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. John 15:10
- You must not murder. You must not commit adultery. You must not steal. You must not testify falsely. Honor your father and mother. Love your neighbor as yourself. Matthew 19:18b-19
- “Don’t tear your clothing in your grief,
but tear your hearts instead.”
Return to the Lord your God,
for he is merciful and compassionate,
slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love.
He is eager to relent and not punish. Joel 2:13 - Not to us, O Lord, not to us,
but to your name goes all the glory
for your unfailing love and faithfulness. Psalm 115:1 - For when we place our faith in Christ Jesus, there is no benefit in being circumcised or being uncircumcised. What is important is faith expressing itself in love. Galatians 5:6
- Praise the Lord!
How joyful are those who fear the Lord
and delight in obeying his commands. Psalm 112:1 - They did not conquer the land with their swords;
it was not their own strong arm that gave them victory.
It was your right hand and strong arm
and the blinding light from your face that helped them,
for you loved them. Psalm 44:3 - And I know it is important to love him with all my heart and all my understanding and all my strength, and to love my neighbor as myself. This is more important than to offer all of the burnt offerings and sacrifices required in the law. Mark 12:33
- Run from anything that stimulates youthful lusts. Instead, pursue righteous living, faithfulness, love, and peace. Enjoy the companionship of those who call on the Lord with pure hearts. 2 Timothy 2:22
- Unfailing love, O Lord, is yours.
Surely you repay all people
according to what they have done. Psalm 62:12 - Whom have I in heaven but you? I desire you more than anything on earth. Psalm 73:25
- The Lord is compassionate and merciful,
slow to get angry, and filled with unfailing love. Psalm 103:8 - But each day, the Lord pours his unfailing love upon me,
and through each night, I sing his songs,
praying to God who gives me life. Psalm 42:8 - Your unfailing love is better than life itself;
How I praise you!
I will praise you as long as I live,
lifting up my hands to you in prayer. Psalm 63:3-4 - Do not nurse hatred in your heart for any of your relatives. Confront people directly so you will not be held guilty for their sin. Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against a fellow Israelite, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord. Leviticus 19:17-18
- In view of all this, make every effort to respond to God’s promises. Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love for everyone. 2 Peter 1:5-7
- If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing. 1 Corinthians 13:3
- But you, Timothy, are a man of God; so run from all these evil things. Pursue righteousness and a godly life, along with faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness. 1 Timothy 6:11
- Live a life filled with love, following the example of Christ. He loved us and offered himself as a sacrifice for us, a pleasing aroma to God. Ephesians 5:2
- Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other. 1 John 4:11
- I cried out, “I am slipping!”
but your unfailing love, O Lord, supported me. Psalm 94:18 - This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another. 1 John 3:11
- Keep on loving each other as brothers and sisters. Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it! Hebrews 13:1-2
- “For the mountains may move
and the hills disappear,
but even then my faithful love for you will remain.
My covenant of blessing will never be broken,”
says the Lord, who has mercy on you. Isaiah 54:10 - Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. 1 John 4:7
- The man answered, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind.’ And, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” Luke 10:27
- For your unfailing love is as high as the heavens.
Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds. Psalm 57:10 - Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you. 1 John 2:15
- If you love me, obey my commandments. John 14:15
- So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. John 13:34
- No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us. Romans 8:37
- O Lord, you are so good, so ready to forgive,
so full of unfailing love for all who ask for your help. Psalm 86:5 - And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. Romans 8:28
- God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. 1 John 4:9
- For the whole law can be summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Galatians 5:14
- Those who accept my commandments and obey them are the ones who love me. And because they love me, my Father will love them. And I will love them and reveal myself to each of them. John 14:21
- Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 1 Corinthians 13:4-5
- And do everything with love. 1 Corinthians 16:14
- Let me hear of your unfailing love each morning,
for I am trusting you.
Show me where to walk,
for I give myself to you. Psalm 143:8 - Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds us all together in perfect harmony. Colossians 3:14
- Never let loyalty and kindness leave you!
Tie them around your neck as a reminder.
Write them deep within your heart.
Then you will find favor with both God and people,
and you will earn a good reputation. Proverbs 3:3-4 - We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love.
God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. 1 John 4:16 - Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13
- We love each other because he loved us first. 1 John 4:19
- Always be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other’s faults because of your love. Ephesians 4:2
- Most important of all, continue to show deep love for each other, for love covers a multitude of sins. 1 Peter 4:8
- Don’t just pretend to love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong. Hold tightly to what is good. Romans 12:9
- I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit. Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong. Ephesians 3:16-17
- This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you. John 15:12
- If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. 1 Corinthians 13:2
- May the Lord lead your hearts into a full understanding and expression of the love of God and the patient endurance that comes from Christ. 2 Thessalonians 3:5
- Never! Can a mother forget her nursing child?
Can she feel no love for the child she has borne?
But even if that were possible,
I would not forget you!
See, I have written your name on the palms of my hands.
Always in my mind is a picture of Jerusalem’s walls in ruins. Isaiah 49:15-16 - Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other. Romans 12:10
- For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word. Ephesians 5:25-26
- No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us. 1 John 4:12
- Place me like a seal over your heart,
like a seal on your arm.
For love is as strong as death,
its jealousy as enduring as the grave.
Love flashes like fire,
the brightest kind of flame. Song of songs 8:6 - If someone says, “I love God,” but hates a fellow believer, that person is a liar; for if we don’t love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see? 1 John 4:20
- There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. John 15:13
- Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love. 1 John 4:18
- Others were given in exchange for you.
I traded their lives for yours
because you are precious to me.
You are honored, and I love you. Isaiah 43:4 - That is what the Scriptures mean when they say,
“No eye has seen, no ear has heard,
and no mind has imagined
what God has prepared
for those who love him.” 1 Corinthians 2:9 - Owe nothing to anyone—except for your obligation to love one another. If you love your neighbor, you will fulfill the requirements of God’s law. Romans 13:8
- And may the Lord make your love for one another and for all people grow and overflow, just as our love for you overflows. 1 Thessalonians 3:12
- See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know him. 1 John 3:1
- But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 1 John 4:8
- Hatred stirs up quarrels,
but love makes up for all offenses. Proverbs 10:12 - Whoever pursues righteousness and unfailing love
will find life, righteousness, and honor. Proverbs 21:21 - The faithful love of the Lord never ends!
His mercies never cease.
Great is his faithfulness;
His mercies begin afresh each morning. Lamentations 3:22-23 - And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus, our Lord. Romans 8:38-39
- And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength. Mark 12:30
- May God give you more and more mercy, peace, and love. Jude 1:2
- It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. 1 Corinthians 13:6-7
- The second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these. Mark 12:31
- Don’t be concerned for your own good but for the good of others. 1 Corinthians 10:24
- I love the Lord because he hears my voice
and my prayer for mercy.
Because he bends down to listen,
I will pray as long as I have breath! Psalm 116:1-2 - Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church. Ephesians 4:15
- If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 1 Corinthians 13:1
- But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things! Galatians 5:22-23
- For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline. 2 Timothy 1:7
- Love does no wrong to others, so love fulfills the requirements of God’s law. Romans 13:10
- For the Scriptures say,
“If you want to enjoy life
and see many happy days,
keep your tongue from speaking evil
and your lips from telling lies.
Turn away from evil and do good.
Search for peace, and work to maintain it.” 1 Peter 3:10-11 - Don’t let anyone think less of you because you are young. Be an example to all believers in what you say, in the way you live, in your love, your faith, and your purity. 1 Timothy 4:12
- But I say, love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you! Matthew 5:44
- Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? Romans 8:35
- This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins. 1 John 4:10
- For his anger lasts only a moment,
but his favor lasts a lifetime!
Weeping may last through the night,
but joy comes with the morning. Psalm 30:5
Wishing you Lots of love,
Sarah Ize-Iyamu
