14 Bible Verses about Love in Relationships (KJV)

Here are 14 Bible verses about love in relationships, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.

Proverbs 27:5 KJV

⁵Open rebuke is better than secret love.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 KJV

¹Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. ²And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. ³And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body …

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Romans 12:2 KJV

²And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Galatians 5:22-23 KJV

²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, ²³Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Mark 12:31 KJV

³¹And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Romans 13:8-10 KJV

⁸Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. ⁹For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. ¹⁰Love worketh no ill …

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Ephesians 5:28 KJV

²⁸So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Ruth 1:16-17 KJV

¹⁶And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: ¹⁷Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 John 3:18 KJV

¹⁸My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Romans 12:1-2 KJV

¹I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. ²And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

John 13:34-35 KJV

³⁴A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. ³⁵By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Matthew 22:37-40 KJV

³⁷Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. ³⁸This is the first and great commandment. ³⁹And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. ⁴⁰On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Hebrews 13:1 KJV

¹Let brotherly love continue.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Matthew 5:43-48 KJV

⁴³Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. ⁴⁴But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; ⁴⁵That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain …

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Must-Read Christian Books

Page 1 of 3

Desiring God

John Piper

Piper unpacks "Christian Hedonism": that God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him, grounded in Scripture.