Valentine’s Day is a special occasion that celebrates love and affection. It is a time when people express their feelings and emotions to their loved ones, friends, and family. While many associate this day with romantic love, it is also an excellent opportunity to reflect on the true meaning of love as portrayed in the Bible. The scriptures are filled with powerful verses that beautifully capture the essence of love, transcending the boundaries of time and culture.
Valentine Bible Verse
This post will go over a number of motivational Bible passages that are appropriate for Valentine’s Day and will help us comprehend love and how much it affects our lives. These passages teach us to love one another with honesty, kindness, and compassion, as well as serve as a reminder of God’s unending love for us. We may genuinely celebrate the essence of love and its transformative power in our relationships and everyday lives by adopting these Valentine Bible passages.
1. 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
“Love is patient; love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, and it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, and it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, and always perseveres.”
2. Romans 13:10
“Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.”
3. John 15:13
“Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”
4. Ephesians 5:2
“Walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.”
5. 1 John 4:16
“So we have come to know and believe in the love that God has for us. God is love, and anyone who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in them.”
6. Proverbs 17:17
“A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.”
7. Colossians 3:14
“And over all these virtues, put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.”
8. Song of Solomon 8:7
“Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If one were to give all the wealth of one’s house for love, it would be utterly scorned.”
9. 1 Peter 4:8
“Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.”
10. Matthew 22:39
“And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
Divine Declarations of Love
11. Zephaniah 3:17
“The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love, he will no longer rebuke you but will rejoice over you with singing.”
12. Jeremiah 31:3
“The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: ‘I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.'”
13. Romans 8:38–39
“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
14. Psalm 86:15
“But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.”
15. 1 John 3:1
“See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!”
16. Isaiah 54:10
“Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
17. Lamentations 3:22–23
“Because of the Lord’s great love, we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.”
18. Romans 5:8
“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
19. 1 John 4:19
“We love because he first loved us.”
20. Deuteronomy 7:9
“Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations.”
Exploring Valentine’s Day in the Bible
21. Song of Solomon 1:2
“Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for your love is more delightful than wine.”
22. Song of Solomon 2:10–13
“My beloved spoke and said to me, ‘Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, come with me.'”
23. Song of Solomon 4:9
“You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride; you have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes.”
24. Song of Solomon 6:3
“I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine; he browses among the lilies.”
25. Proverbs 5:18–19
“May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth. A loving doe, a graceful deer— may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be intoxicated with her love.”
26. Ephesians 5:25
“Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.”
27. 1 Corinthians 7:3–4
“The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife.”
28. Genesis 2:24
“That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.”
29. Colossians 3:19
“Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.”
30. 1 Peter 3:7
“Husbands, in the same way, be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.”
Valentine Bible Verses for Believers
31. 1 John 4:7
“Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.”
32. Romans 12:10
“Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.”
33. Galatians 5:22–23
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things, there is no law.”
34. 1 Thessalonians 3:12
“May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you.”
35. Hebrews 13:1
“Let mutual love continue.”
36. 1 Corinthians 16:14
“Do everything in love.”
37. Ephesians 4:2
“Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.”
38. 1 Peter 1:22
“Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart.”
39. John 13:34–35
“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this, everyone will know that you are my disciples if you love one another.”
40. 1 Corinthians 13:13
“And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
God’s Love Unveiled
41. Romans 5:5
“And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.”
42. 1 John 4:10
“This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.”
43. Ephesians 3:17–19
“So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”
44. 1 John 4:16
“So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and anyone who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in them.”
45. Romans 8:39
“Neither height nor depth nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
46. Zephaniah 3:17
“The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love, he will no longer rebuke you but will rejoice over you with singing.”
47. Jeremiah 31:3
“The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: ‘I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.'”
48. Psalm 136:26
“Give thanks to the God of heaven. His love endures forever.”
49. 1 John 4:19
“We love because he first loved us.”
50. Psalm 117:2
“For great is his love toward us, and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever. Praise the Lord.”
