The Bible says a great deal about people and about God. However, it also includes profound knowledge and philosophical understanding, such as regarding love. Take a minute to consider this wise counsel and its implications for your own life after reading these ten quotes.
1. Proverbs 3:3
“Write them on the tablet of your heart; bind them around your neck; let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you.”
2. Proverbs 10:12
“Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.”
3. Song of Solomon 8:4,6-7
Daughters of Jerusalem, I implore you to refrain from arousing or igniting love until it is convenient for you.
Because love is as strong as death and jealousy is as ferocious as the afterlife, set me as a seal upon your heart and as a seal upon your arm. Its flashes are fire flashes, the flame of the Lord himself. Floods cannot drown love, nor can many rivers quench it. A man would be completely hated if he gave all of his household’s money to someone out of love.
4. Matthew 6:24
Nobody can serve two masters because they will either be loyal to one and loathe the other, or they will detest the one and love the other. You can’t worship both money and God.
5. Romans 12:9
“Allow true love to exist. Hold on to what is good and detest evil.
6. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
“Love is not conceited or ill-mannered; it is patient and kind. It does not boast or envy.” It is not obstinate or vindictive; instead, it rejoices in the truth rather than in wrongdoing. It also does not insist on getting its way. Love suffers everything, bears everything, believes everything, and hopes everything. Love never fades.
7. 1 Corinthians 13:13
“Therefore, these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but love is the greatest of these.”
8. Colossians 3:14
“And above all, put on love, for it is love that unites all things in perfect harmony.”
9. 1 John 4:8
“God is love, and he is unknown to those who do not love.”
10. 1 John 4:18-19
“Perfect love drives out fear, but there is no fear in love.” Fear is associated with punishment, and one who is afraid has not attained perfection in love. We are in love because he loved us initially.
(This article’s Bible quotations are all from the ESV translation.)
